Tuesday, April 22, 2008

April 23, Another day of LOVE



Today, the world is celebrating another day of love. Several nations ,of which Saint George is the patron saint, such as Spain (Catalonia), England, Portugal, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Republic of Macedonia celebrates the Diada de Sant Jordi/ St. George's Day.

This a tradition where in Catalonia, Spain which has a similarity with Valentines Day. The tradition every April 23 is the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and respected ones. In the past men gave their girlfriends and wives roses and women gave their boyfriends and husbands a book to celebrate the occasion.

In current times, this mutual exchange of books is customary. Roses have been associated with this day since medieval times, but the giving of books is a more recent tradition. Thus, is a day also known in Catalonia as el dia de la rosa (The Day of the Rose) or el dia del llibre (The Day of the Book) that inspired UNESCO to declare April 23 as the International Day of the Book.

So, I just want to say "Te amo y te echos de menos muchos" to my love and special one. If i was there then I can celebrate that tradition with you!I'm sorry didn't buy a book for me to give.:-). I love u so. mwah!

Even I dont know how it feel like to celebrate this day but still i celebrate it because of love.Hope I can celebrate it in real in the future. So people let us celebrate this day of love and greet our loved ones to let them feel how we love them. Tell them now!!!!!:)

Cant get enough about.........Einstein's infamous formula



As Mariah Carey's new album recently came out.... and so i cant get enough about her 14 beautifully crafted records......hahaha. Wow!!! Its is like an atomic bomb explosion. She is really a versatile artist because every album she had got different beats. Yeah you can criticize her all you want but even you do that you cant stop her make own music that all other her fans, tor and I. hahaha..... So those who want to listen to her new album, just buy a copy to records stores near you!!!!

Mariah forever. Love yah.....

Ms. Gay (TS/TG) Mandaue!


Pageants have been a part of the lives for tg/ts. For some it is their way to feel and show people their beautiful, some want to be famous, some want to earn income and support their lives on it and some tg/ts just want to have fun. The time pageant for women was born was also the time it gave birth to ts/tg pageants. International beauty pageants such as Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth pageants as the framework of for the celebration of ts/tg's joyful femininity.

Now thats joyous celebration has been tested if it managed to overcome the perils of time. Before i was exposed to ts/tg pageants, i had never known what it was like. Till I experience it later in my first year college by joining the pageant organized by the LGBT organization at school. Since then I always join pageant till I've been competing in big tg pageants in Cebu with other veteran, beautiful and feminine tgs/tss.

Cebu province's prestigious tg/ts pageant is held ever after the city Fiesta celebration of Mandaue. It has a long history dating back in 198o's and had been the most expected event every year. Contestants coming from different parts of the country are free to join the pageant. Choosing the contestant are in the hand of jurors decision by the criteria of beauty, intelligence, and confidence.

Most winner of this pageant have been famous among tg/ts/tv/g community in Cebu. But then since last year after Mr. Doy Arradaza passed away. The credibility of the prestige in the pageant was in question. Maybe this is due to the accommodation and prices for the pageant candidates.

It is understandable that last years pageant was a turning point for the pageant to continue rather than put in grave. Due to most church criticism and sanctions such as not holding fiesta mass if tg/ts/g pageants is part of a fiesta program in the parochial community. Funding also was the problem for the last year pageant because of the scandal the mayor had gone through. But still it was realized and pushed through to held the pageant.

Today, interest for tg/ts pageants among transgender is also put to question. Ho much interest does the new generation have for tg/ts pageants? Will the prestige of the tg/ts/g Mandaue pageant continues or depreciates? When will be this pageant turn to be an institution to give permanence to the event? Does it need more organizational structure to be an institution? Will that be the time that this marginalized part of Cebuano society to form an organization for its welfare? When will the tg/ts/g form a group for the welfare of its kind?

The answer is in each one of us. (especially with the G&T community of Cebu)

Pls comment on what you think about the questions....

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Transexual Vendetta



Vendetta or feuds tend to begin because one party (correctly or incorrectly) perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted or wronged by another (Wikipedia). In the events of the presence of such conflict, one must note that the truth is absent or is hiding to reconcile issues of conflict. If we think that there is no honesty, the personal trust is shaken. Resolutions for such matters will not come about if both parties cant confront and extract the truth from its hiding place and resolve the hate towards each other.

Last week, a newly evoked vendetta happened in Cebu. This is a conflict between two transexuals for a foreign man they had acquainted from Friendster. This foreign guy came to the Cebu last January and met few tg/ts to choose for a partner. Ts DA and Ts DY had met him. The former, as what other ts friend said, repudiate the man's offer for relationship because shes not available. The latter was introduced my a friend Raquela Rios to the man, that time they were two ts competing. In the end, Ts DY was chosen and they compromise for a relationship.

After his trip in the Philippines, the guy was having a good relationship with Ts DY, they had a good communication and exchange reciprocity between them. Mr. Foreigner promise to come for a week in late March to celebrate his birthday with her. Due to working schedules, the guy canceled his flight and managed to rebook for a flight schedule after two weeks. With that bad news, Ts DY was depressed because he cant spend her time to celebrate her "love's" bday but was relieve because they still have good communication. The guy also promises to give her a laptop pc, a camera, perfume and makeup so Ts DY was happy to know it. Then, the waiting is over and they eventually met. They have spent 2 days roaming around the city and a day away from the city to the tranquil place in a beach south of Cebu. After they arrive back in the city. The man said he will meet his child, a son from her ex-wife in Cebu. So the man went to his wife and met his child in a mall. That time, Ts DY went also to the same mall touring her close relatives and for her to give them a treat. Exchange of messages happened between the two in the mall. Giving pain to the femme. Messages connoting that the man don't want her to come near him.

She understood what the man so she didn't mind it. Then one day the man ask permission to Ts DY to meet his son again. So she let him. Bored being alone she went out and head to the mall and hoping that she can see her man happy seeing his child. But then she saw the ex-wife and son with the nanny with no presence of the father. So she was worried that time. She waited all night for the man and called him many times in his mobile and she didn't got an answer. Sleepless waiting, she endured waiting for the man till the man came back the next morning with a broke his bone and his arm in now in a cast. He explained that he had been in an accident and didn't told her the truth about what really happen.

That time the man was gone, he went to met Ts DA. They had in contact since he was still in Dubai. So they met and the rest was history (undocumented story from Ts DA) till they had an accident in the mountains. After that incident, they were admitted to the hospital. There Xrab, Domln and Sind, who met the foreign guy on the first night, was shocked seeing the guy in the hospital and explained the situation while Ts DY was waiting for the man in their flat till he came back.

News came from some friends that Ts DA had an accident which is very reluctant to believe at first because TS are fond of making puns and jokes to each other about tragic things. Then friends of Ts DA sent messages to other friends and confirmed she was in the hospital because her car got hit in the mountains with the "afam" ( foreign guy) until Ts DA sent everyone some text messages about her condition.

Xrab, a friend of both parties, interrogated the foreign guy and Ts DA on what happened and their acquaintance even the foreign guy had a relationship with Ts DY. So what they had talked in the hospital didn't came to Ts DY's knowledge till the midnight of the guy. With full anger she sent a message to the guy and told him to come back immediately in the their house. In that day the guy with fracture asked again Ts DY to let him go to see his son (accdg. to Ts DY she went to Ts DA). So arriving in their house Ts Dy had a mixed feeling about what happen knowing that his man met another ts. She wants to kill him but it didn't happen. So they had a great fight!blah blah blah!

Even to that time, Ts DA still sent sms to the foreign man telling him to come to the hospital because she was in pain. Ts DY knew about it and the man ask Ts DY to let her answer the sms. In order for the guy to reply to Ts DA, Ts Dy permitted if he will kiss her (cos she was dying to kiss him os he miss him so). After that they talk about their future and the man said he cant decide at that time because he said he was "brainwash" and he can answer about him and Ts Dy's future when he arrive back in Dubai! After this, they have a personal compromise and parted with Ts DY's tears and lean on his shoulders for comfort (definitely in pain she said her dreams was shattered).

Weekend after the departure of the man. Both ts met in a pageant audition for ts in Cebu P. There Ts DY pulls Ts DA's hair before the start of the activity. The confrontation of of both parties was not of talk but because of the anger the other felt so it was never possible to resolve their problems. Ts DY humiliated and disturbed Ts DA's presentation and everyone from the audience were curious of what was happening there. So the judge asked Ts DA in her interview that was her accident was of good karma and she answered back with "YES" and explained about it.

Now, statements arise via internet bulletins criticizing those who she thought that turned back on her!!!!!

This ts situation that happened recently had been a mind-buggling for me. With questions such as, Why are men who seeks ts for relationship cannot stick to one ts. Why had a relationship to a ts thats is somehow had a close relationship to his ts-gf? Why tell lies and cannot tell the truth in front of her gf's place?

I think that this situation can change the ideas of ts on their relationship with men. This can build more untrusting in the part of the ts to their bf. This will reflect into ts's attitude in not giving their whole feelings to man. With the rampant experiences of pain and suffering of ts from their Filipino bfs and its society in general, it will add up to their thinking that Filipinos and foreigners are alike by inflicting pain to them and definitely lead them not to be serious to the partners they met.

For a relationship there must be loyalty to strengthen trust. Shattered trust is difficult to put together. Until the truth comes out from its hiding place, it will either solve the problem or its continuation. But at the end, the damage has been done.

So men don't play with us so we will not play with you!

Both parties are free to write they're statements in the comments section of the blog and explain their side of the story. But still confronting face to face will be a good way to resolve their issues......

El primera dia de la semana



In time with the creation of planet transgender, it will be nice to tell you about what this blog all is about. I created this blog because i want to write the events that happened everyday in my life, my thoughts about all things i encounter.With that i can show to you what my world as a transgender and to know more about the life we have!

Yo abro mi semana a estudair en espanol!Why?(por que?) Porque me gusta aprender la lengua. yo quiero voy a espana para vivir alli. Por eso se' tener oportunidad para mi futuro. Y tambe', tener una vida con amormio.

Hahaha!hope you understand that.(Espero vos entender ese.) Anyways, the importance of Spanish for the newly graduates (like me) and to all of us, is that for your information having knowledge of another or more language aside from one's mother tongue gives the advantage to be hired for most international companies worldwide especially in Europe. Filipinos, who were colonized by Spain for 300 more years, had been exposed to the culture and especially the language of the Spaniards. With the presence of Spanish words in our vocabularies, it is very easy to "entender"(understand) the Spanish language.

This is why I pursued to learn more about the language and develop my speaking, writing, and understanding of Spanish. In Europe, you are not allowed work and study if you cant talk in the EU countries respective languages. As Spanish is what I'm taking now, it is not just Spain as my main destination, but the whole Spanish- speaking countries in the world in Americas, Africa and Asia (Philippines). I don't want to be static on the language I used and don't have to be dependent on English, we will be behind if we do so. If what we do is to have a good job then we have to improve our language skills.

If u are interested to work abroad, we have to be more competent enough in par with other international workers. Let us not stick on service-oriented jobs because what most of us took in the universities are of in-demand courses about giving services in health, tourism, hospitality and etc. Even though school standards here cant compare from schools abroad but we, as professionals, are intelligent enough to do the jobs we have and give our best for it.

Let us enhance more of our working skills and knowledge just by learning other languages. Its not just about u do it because you want to have a job but your learning of such language is of your interests. So, for those who want to study another language, grab the opportunity and make the most of it. As diversity is innate in all of us, then we have to take consideration the diversity of others outside our territorial vicinity:-). It can be the way of the more influx of ideas from the rest of the world and normalizing the prepositions such as "inter" and "trans" because of that exchange.

The Creation

On the first day of creation, the universe was dark and formless. Then a supreme being came out from that darkness and commanded, " let there be light" and there was light. As light appeared the world was formed. And the supreme being named it "Planet Transgender". A world that is undescribable, limitless, and unimaginable. Let us see and know more about this newly created world......hahah. Well what an introduction. I considered myself as the creator of the this so call "planet" because what i want to write in this blog is all about transgender/ts/transvestite. I myself as a transgender would like to express what is our true nature, our thoughts and ideas, and what we do in our everyday lives. i also would like to tackle in here "trans" issues from the daily problems tg/ts/tv faced. So if anyone will be offended of what i will write, what you can do is leave me comments so we can exchange ideas about it. All the materials I will write here is personal opinion the things i do and encounter and put in mind that it will never my intention to hurt others. ok! so let the TRANSGENDER LIFE begins!