Simpleng Pinoy lang si Jarold

I usually trail down the streets of Laray to my place in Tanke, Talisay City as it has became a part of my daily routine. I've learned from numerous exercise advice that a 15 minute brisk walking daily is a great exercise.
Walking down that street would require me to cross the national highway SRP (South Road Project) where all types of private vehicles including trucks of disparate sizes pass.

Last tuesday night, as I was near to crossing the crossroads of the highway going to my place, a titanic truck abruptly crossed the street at the speed of light even when they yellow light already gave the warning. Now this scene shouldn't be new to us Filipinos since we know that we are infamously known to be great traffic violators. However, I've never seen any vehicle ran the red light at a turbulent speed as fast as a light. And it made me recall the ghastly pictures of a smashed body of a motorcycle driver that I had received from my friend through an e-mail way back. The man's body was literally dispersed in the street.

Having described my experience, I am calling the attention of Talisay City and Cebu City government to come up with effective measures regarding this horrifying issue. We may not successfully efface all these incredulously evil truck drivers; but I'm extremely positive there is something that can be done. It's a crossroad for crying out loud! Hundreds of people cross there daily. Thus, we shouldn't wait for a someone's demise to be an eye-opener before action will be taken. And this includes but not limits possible vehicular accidents.

When I first heard that Nina's Album Nina Live turned diamond, I said, "Wow! Someone has finally achieved the feat Jose Mari Chan has achieved." It goes to say that the record industry is not eating dust in the stationery racks of record bars.

However, when I tuned in to SNN (Showbiz News Ngayon) last friday night, I learned from the master ( Jose Mari Chan) that the record standards has been lowered enormously. Gold Record in the not so old times would mean a hundred thousand copies of an album sold; that was ten times more than the current Gold Record standard of ten thousand copies of an album sold.

Just as what the master had said, learning that fact makes me feel bad and sad that it has to be that way. But, agreeing with the master for the second time, I can't blame te record industry for making such decision. Music piracy is adamantly strenuous among music consumers. And with the advent of the P-2-P file sharing softwares in the internet such as limewire and bearshare to name a few, downloading a single that has just been  released an hour ago is as easy as one, two, three. Even with the concept of iTunes, the record market is still creeping in the dark alleys of the dwindling record market.

I personally think that we direly need a scintillating concept and technology to counteract piracy. And the government has to play an incredibly great participation to realize such concept. Albeit, it shouldn't focus on laws alone. The laws we have right now against piracy are obviously not too effective. Perhaps a fusion of the minds of an IT specialist, computer programmer, mechanical engineer, electronics and communications engineer, a psychologist and political scientist can come up with a conclusive solution to counteract piracy. I strongly believe taht there is certainly a permanent way to fight piracy, at least for a decade.

We can't fight Filipinos' idolatry to foreign music which is also one very obvious reason why the Philippine music industry is experiencing extreme jolt. Yet, with the right technology coupled with an effective governance against piracy, the music industry will undoubtedly soar high again.