I wouldn't suprise knowing that many Filipinos criticized the new brand or design of the Philippine tourism logo. The mere fact that it was conceptualize in Filipino would really make a big buzz in our country. We are aiming for foreigners to visit and have the look of our country, how beautiful the places we are promoting, how cheerful and hospitable Filipinos are, and offer them something unique and never-been-seen things in their life or atleast in their country of origin. And so how could we achive this goal if the words are not familiar to them or they never heard of it?
But hey, think of it Filipinos, the idea is not that really bad. Use of Filipino or tagalog words may create curiosity or interest to some foreigners.DOT is maybe right that some countries were using their own dialect in their logos or brand and i think no ones complaining about it. I didn't say that we must do it as well.What I'm trying to say is, let's make a try. Who knows it will create a positive outcome.
As you notice, most of foreign tourism logos don't really have a brand name or phrases on it. Just an artistic design and the name of country. Simple as it is. Some don't really use statement or phrases to brand their tourism. Simplicity is beauty. But i don't really give high credit to the ideas of DOT or kind of impress to their newly and suddenly scrap concept or brand. We may get ideas to others to come up something better but not to copy even portion of it because it would really create criticism and disapproval.
Now that the DOT was lambasted or castigated by different sectors and classes of our country, and then the news of resigning the undersecretary, what will happen now? Should the Filipinos will wait and see again what the DOT can offer or atleast cover up their mistakes? I don't know if it really come up to them (DOT) the idea of letting the people choose what they think is right and sound good. What I mean is by instead spending lots of money in hiring designers and letting only few people to select what is the best, why not let the masses do the art and let them do the selection. DOT can launch an online art competition for the logo as well as brand name or phrases or any suggestion anyone think appropriate to represent the country. In this way, they could get lots of ideas and concept which maybe better than what their designer created. This is also a chance given to Filipinos to showcase their talents and creativity. DOT will just sort out, prejudge and do the elimination. And then let the people choose which they think is the best through online voting and let them give feedbacks, opinion or comments. And so when it will presented in public, and if people will react, at least they can now defend themselves and use the feedback to fight with criticism.
This is just my suggestion on this issue. But for me, I would rather give more attention to what our country could offer than this debating issue. Words of mouth is more powerful and effective than spending lots of million for promoting and advertising. Make our country clean and beautiful, peaceful and secure, accessible and organize, these should be given priority because first impression last and let the visitors do the promotion. Smile Filipinos....
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
A Little About Me
I'ts been two years ago since I started trying to create my own blog but i wasn't able to mantain and update it regularly because my work hampered me to do so. And also I was too hooked in facebook that every hour I checked and browsed over my fb account. But lately I found it boring. People just keep you updating what they're doing and show off what they have, whom they with and where were they. It may seem entertaining scrolling there pictures and write comments but sometimes some postings were nonesense. So I opted to blogging again because here you could write anything under the sun and could learn many things. So hopefully I could seriously maintain this account and could meet other bloggers and make friends with them. Just giving you a little info about myself ...
Rhenzy is not my real name. It's a name I picked and wanted to give to my baby someday. I don't really want to divulge everything about me so as to keep my personal profile private and of course I could write anything without any hesitation and apprehension that I could hurt somebody and they might take it personally against me or could make violent reactions and actions. But apparently, some of my items are about my life, the journey I have been through, the plans and dreams I want to share, my thoughts on something that gets my attention, just anything that pops up on my head. It's indeed a world of blogging.
To continue, I'm 28 years old and having a married status for more than two years to my long time partner. We don't have kids and physically we are miles away as I am working here in HongKong and him in South Korea. To say it straight, I'm a domestic helper here in Hongkong. On January 8 next year, my contract will end and hopefully before that day comes I could have my visa already bound to Canada under Live-in Caregiver Program. I'm really crossing my fingers on it. Actually, with the same reason as others would have, processing of papers here in Hongkong is faster as compared in the Philippines. But unfortunately in my part, it takes longer due to many reasons. Surely, in my future posting, I'm going to share to you the timeline and the processing of LCP so as to give idea for those who are interested. Anyway, as I said I work here as a domestic helper. I'm too lucky to be employed in a Chinese family who made my work easy and I could testify that
working such job is "paswerti-swerti". I'm just fortunate that my employer are nice and my works are not that hard but still I'm a DH. Unlike with my other friends who are "malas" with their employers, I'm too "
swerti" to clean a small flat, to look after a 6-year old girl, just market and cook our food only if granny can't make it, madam is not that meticulous interms of cleanliness, and lots of time for facebooking, reading online showbiz and news. I always left alone during weekdays since the couple are working and the kid is in school. Lots of freedom and surely I didn't feel like a slave. I really thanks God for it.
So since I'm working and living here in Hong Kong for nearly two years, probably I will share to you some of our experiences, adventures and stories. I'm going to tackle some Chinese lifestyle, make comparison to Filipino culture, the places you must see or visit when you have plans to tour HK, gonna give you info on transfortation, food and best buy, and anything that I think could help and benefits you.
I have 3 more months to go and hopefully in my future postings I could share lots of information and ideas about Hongkong. I'm really praying that I could have my visa before November ends so that if God allows me to journey a new place, I might do write ups as well to the new experience, challenge and adventure. Aja people!
Rhenzy is not my real name. It's a name I picked and wanted to give to my baby someday. I don't really want to divulge everything about me so as to keep my personal profile private and of course I could write anything without any hesitation and apprehension that I could hurt somebody and they might take it personally against me or could make violent reactions and actions. But apparently, some of my items are about my life, the journey I have been through, the plans and dreams I want to share, my thoughts on something that gets my attention, just anything that pops up on my head. It's indeed a world of blogging.
To continue, I'm 28 years old and having a married status for more than two years to my long time partner. We don't have kids and physically we are miles away as I am working here in HongKong and him in South Korea. To say it straight, I'm a domestic helper here in Hongkong. On January 8 next year, my contract will end and hopefully before that day comes I could have my visa already bound to Canada under Live-in Caregiver Program. I'm really crossing my fingers on it. Actually, with the same reason as others would have, processing of papers here in Hongkong is faster as compared in the Philippines. But unfortunately in my part, it takes longer due to many reasons. Surely, in my future posting, I'm going to share to you the timeline and the processing of LCP so as to give idea for those who are interested. Anyway, as I said I work here as a domestic helper. I'm too lucky to be employed in a Chinese family who made my work easy and I could testify that
working such job is "paswerti-swerti". I'm just fortunate that my employer are nice and my works are not that hard but still I'm a DH. Unlike with my other friends who are "malas" with their employers, I'm too "
swerti" to clean a small flat, to look after a 6-year old girl, just market and cook our food only if granny can't make it, madam is not that meticulous interms of cleanliness, and lots of time for facebooking, reading online showbiz and news. I always left alone during weekdays since the couple are working and the kid is in school. Lots of freedom and surely I didn't feel like a slave. I really thanks God for it.
So since I'm working and living here in Hong Kong for nearly two years, probably I will share to you some of our experiences, adventures and stories. I'm going to tackle some Chinese lifestyle, make comparison to Filipino culture, the places you must see or visit when you have plans to tour HK, gonna give you info on transfortation, food and best buy, and anything that I think could help and benefits you.
I have 3 more months to go and hopefully in my future postings I could share lots of information and ideas about Hongkong. I'm really praying that I could have my visa before November ends so that if God allows me to journey a new place, I might do write ups as well to the new experience, challenge and adventure. Aja people!
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