photoblog time! 🙂 Photo Hunt theme for the week is Creative, so my first entry for PSHunt is a digital scrap and 2 handmade scrapbook.
First off: Digital Scrap of my dearest boyfriends.. lol. These are the boys from my ultra wonderful Aprilfools friends. Ain’t they cute? I took this picture when we went to Costabella earlier this year as a send off party for Neiloy.
And now, we will be having a couple of more send off dinners slash get together a few days (and weeks from now). I hate goodbyes. But with the fools, there’ll be no goodbyes… just see you soon. 🙂
Next stop is a handmade scrap i made for my sister. She loves stars. And if i have a drop of creativity in me, she’s swimming in a flood of it. You should see her bedroom wall. 🙂 Anyway, she was playing with my guitar in my room with my digicam! So i guess, doing a scrap for her would top it all. 🙂
And last is another scrap i did for my sis. I *heart* U. And around the paper I wrote some mushy stuff for her. Like telling how lucky she is to have a beautiful sister like moi. LOL.
With more than 2 million hits at YouTube.com since it was uploaded last week, the video above really is making waves in the news and internet. It features the inmates from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) doing their own versions of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Whoopie Goldberg’s Sister Act dance number, among others.
Penology in the Philippines (and even abroad) has always been associated with hard core criminals, drug lords, pushers, rapist, etc. etc… even a mixing of both guilty and the innocent. Or the guilty feigning innocence. It is a place where the limelight only choose to focus when there’s a big fish going in, quality of life of the inmates is being documented, or God forbid a jail break has erupted. It is a place where the guilty are sent to be punished, a God forsaken place as some would call it, and not a somewhere where the next Guinness record is being vied at.
It has been featured in Jessica Soho Reports, one of the top documentary shows in the country. Then the next thing you know, CNN is featuring it. And just this morning, Umagang kay Ganda’s (morning show at ABS) hosts were doing their warm up exercise following the dance steps of the inmates.
My sis, J and I had a good laugh last night watching the whole video (that and watching Beyonce’s fall face first during her Orlando concert). We are not talking about just a bunch of inmates dancing in the prison’s quadrangle. We’re talking about hundreds of them, performance level, facial expression perfect, internalization intact, imitating M.J’s Thriller video. I’m telling you, these guys (and girls!) can give M.J a run for his money! 🙂
During interviews, some inmates said that they had been doing this as part of their daily exercise. Some even said that they got bored just shooting hoops, and the activity is really something they look forward to. Hmmm… I bet the jail guards won’t be too strict when he sees a couple of inmates huddled together. For all you know they are just conversing on how to do that perfect zombie walk, and how much they like that crotch-holding step. lol.
But really, kidding aside, Kudos to the mind behind this activity. It surely did give a new light on how people outside see the life of those behind bars. See! Imagine how much you can do when you unite together for something good. I really hope they could set a record for this.
Hmmm.. if Big Brother has Housemates… then CPDRC have the dancing Inmates!
"I saw a falling star the other night, and just when i was hurrying to come up with a wish, All I could say was a heartfelt Thank You." ~dee
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