During the awarding of PSIA Honor Award

Speaking infront of PSIA members about Case Study on IP

Making the news in the IT field these past few days is a Filipina named Ma. Odea “Deng” Ching. She made a big feat by being elected as the Vice President of Archiva, a community based Open Source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Deng, as she is fondly called is a Developer at Exist Global, a company founded by Filipino IT Venture Capitalist and Serial Entrepreneur Winston Damarillo.

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After Charice Pempengco, another Filipina may well be on her way to musical stardom. McDonald’s employee Mary Margaret Yu came back to the country triumphant last April 20 after competing in the finals night of “Voice of McDonald’s 2008” held in Orlando, Florida.

Yu bagged the second prize for the competition while the Grand Prize was won by Natércia Pintor of Portugal. The 22-year-old Davao resident and choir member took home $10,000.

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Reading this article got me teary eyed. Another touching life story of a Filipina.

Analiza Yape worked her way through high school and college by working as a maid. An orphan since Grade 6, she did not reason out this status in life to stop dreaming and believing. All she wanted was for her and her siblings to finish college and have a better life. She saw problems in life as challenges and opportunities.. she never quitted and focused on her goal instead.
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Janina, Janina…

Nope, this is not going to be a post of ridicule. You have had enough of that already. Tama na!

Look at the bright side:

1. You are now an instant celebrity
2. Your videos are among the most watched vids in Youtube. (no kidding!!)
3. You already have a captured audience once you battle it out for the Miss World title. You can use this as an opportunity to show ‘em your stuff. Minus the wrong grammers, errrr…., grammar. (it is not so bad to have wrong grammar!)
4. In spite of almost everyone saying that you are a disgrace , think about this : When you are in the Ms. World pageant, I am sure that more than 50% of those who ridiculed you will be rooting for you. If there is internet voting, we will vote for you!!!
5. You are still young. At age 17, you are allowed a few mistakes here and there. Some young people your age are making worse mistakes than speaking poor English. (more…)

Another filipina who has gained news coverage is Baicon Macaraya, who is enthroned as Queen for helping the poor of her war-torn hometown, Marawi City. She gave up her career to help her people. From providing pans to reconstructing houses, she and her organization has done. Read more about her in Inquirer.

There are a lot of Filipinas out there with a good heart. And she is just one of many.