Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Matters on the General Assembly

Mga Kabayan,

Tuloy na po tayo sa 28 February 2009 para sa ating General Assembly. Sa Queen Hotel (contact Deborah at 0805473255), Songkhla at 1:00pm ang Registration. Ito ang mga required na dalhin:

- 1"x 1" photo (1)
-xerox copy ng passport
-xerox copy ng visa o contract
- membership fee:100B
- floating fund: 50B
- 350B per room/with aircon/for 4 persons
- bring your own food to share

Paki-confirm na lang po kay Sec. Rey (0836743643) or kay assist. Sec. Benjie (0874781681) or sa inyong area coordinator sa lalong madaling panahon.

Maraming salamat po.

Elmer Ursolino
Vice Pres.
18 Feb. 2009, Pattani

Sunday, February 1, 2009

OFEST Constitution and By-Laws





Kumusta mga Kabayan!

May site na po tayo!
Ayos na ang buto-buto!!!


Sir Elmer
Vice-President
A Home Is Within Us-OFEST!
Thinking away from home is a disease for those who are in the distance. It can kill. It's proven. That's why its popularly called "homesick".

To say so, it's been prescribed as to find an advice for medication-not expensive nor need to hospitalized- as what the Filipino teachers dabbed themselves as educators in the southern part of Thailand to unite once and for all.

January 20, 2009, marked the first symptom of the treatment during the mourn of our beloved friend and kabayan Alex Torillo in Pattani. Filipinos from Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, and some from Nakhon Sri Thamarat, Songkhla and Surathani came and expressed their symphaty to Alex's Family.

The provoking feelings of our kabayan towards the "illed' situations abroad had then merged into one- to organize ourselves. In the case of Alex, we have felt our need to unite not only for help/assistance, prestige and professionalism but as a real "big family".

The continuing persistence of the new global order against the labor sector is quite detrimental sooner or later. It never speaks, sings nor touches you but it's like more than a teargas that you can just smell around and see yourself fell helpless in the ground.

This is what the "big family" thinks of 'having one another- seeing one another' , a simple cure to normalize being at home abroad. They believed that being educators must possess strong physical bodies and vigorous working minds to help overcome such threat. And so, they immediately drafted a constitution and bylaws to an organization called the Organization of Filipino Educators in the South of Thailand (OFEST).

That's up to this moment, homesick is curable anymore- if this brotherhood-sisterhood scheme prospers- without having been in a clinic or hospital but instead an office which they called "home".

by Elmer Ursolino,
Vice-President, OFEST
01 Feb. 2009, Pattan
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OFEST BLOG: http://www.ofest-ofest.blogspot.com

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Organization of Filipino Educators
in the South of Thailand (OFEST)