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| DRAGONBOAT RACING in LANAO |
Posted by : nords1925
Post Date : July 24, 2010 08:47:21 PM |
Moderators : wahs yulclatip
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| The possibility of Organizing a Dragonboat Racing Competition in LakeLanao |
Posted by :
nords1925 |
| July 24, 2010 08:47:23 PM |
Location :
Unknown |
To all stakeholders of Lake Lanao:
I would like to know your own comments and ideas for the possibility of organizing a Dragonboat Racing Competition in Lake Lanao.
We had this plan of organizing a Dragonboat Racing competition in Lake Lanao as part of our advocacy in voicing out the current situation of our lake. As we all know, our lake is slowly dying, maybe all of us are aware of this but only of few of the stakeholders of the lake are doing something in preventing our lake from its environmental degradation.
Please be honest with your comments and suggestions.. also your commitments, so that if ever this project would go on, we know whom to communicate with and those who are willing to participate.
As to our initial effort in realizing this project. We have already communicated with the Amateur Rowing Association of the Philippines (ARAP) and the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation (PDBF) which they have already shown their support for this event from becoming the grandest event in Lanao Del Sur for 2010.
We are counting in every comments. Thank You. |
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| SLEEPY LIFELESS PARADISE |
Posted by :
nlkhalid |
| July 25, 2010 01:05:24 AM |
Location :
tihamaland |
SLEEPY/LIFELESS PARADISE
Anything of that kind or events similar to it will be a great boost to our disfigured (if you can call it that) or blemished identity as individuals (drugs/kidnappings) and as a people (violent/failed elections) if you can make it work. I have even in the early days of this forum recommended organizing youths to engage in “sailing/sailboat/water skiing” sports in the lake. We live in one of the most beautiful paces on the planet but when you try to absorb or comprehend its beauty…you find yourself in an idle mode and boring sleepy paradise. You feel like wanting to sleep on it…a paradise that is not dead but lifeless. |
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| Dragonboat Race in Lake Lanao |
Posted by :
Guest |
| July 25, 2010 06:18:30 PM |
Location :
RC AKIC |
Well, its a promising project. 'Not dead but lifeless'may not exactly describe Lanao. Rather it is a multi-life and highly erratic kind of place. It changes too fast and can change too fast. Probably because its leaders are never sure of what they want and what they are.
Dragonboat race? Why not ?. Just go through the right people - say, the provincial governor and city mayor in one - things will work. The challenge is to to make the two work side by side with you in the project. If you can, I see no reason why it cant happen. This may be the key to unlock a sudden change of mood in Lanao. |
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| Re : Dragonboat Race in Lake Lanao |
Posted by :
JuzThinkin |
| July 25, 2010 09:16:55 PM |
Location :
MSU |
Very nice plan and very symbolic, if not ironic, I must say. The Dragon boat racing is a part of a Chinese festival and the race is usually held in places especially in Asia where there is a significant Chinese population like Singapore, Malaysia etc. We used to have a significant Chinese population in Marawi City, our local trade then being dominated by them just like in any other City in the Country until they’re forced to leave as a result of the Mindanao Conflict in the late sixties and early seventies. I don’t know of a single Chinese businessman doing business in the City since then. Could this plan be at the same time an indirect invitation for the Chinese to come back and help give a boost to the City’s sagging economy? I personally would love that.
The second point I would like to make is, do we have a team for the race? If not we organize first, practice well, and perhaps call it the Naga team (Naga being the Maranao version of the Chinese dragon) to give it a Maranao flavor. Being “people of the lake” it would be an insult to our Maratabat if our Naga will be beaten badly by the Chinese dragon not to mention the fact that we will be hosting the event.
The third point is that we’ve got to get the Provincial and City governments to actively get involved. We will be showcasing the City and the Province to our guest racers (I would assume many will be foreigners and coming for the first time to our “Sleeping beauty” and it would definitely by doing injustice to Islam to show the Islamic City with all those stinking garbage, poorly paved roads, no hotels to accommodate guests and racers, no water and intermittent brownouts/blackouts. What kind of hospitality our “City of golden hospitality” can really offer? What I am driving at is that the Province and the City should invest in the Event (much smaller in size and scale but similar to what China did in the Olympic or South Africa in the World Cup). We can use the event in convincing our concerned LGUs to give a facelift to the City, Clean the Lake, build hotels, build resorts (much needed for the Dragonboat race and which can later be used for other water sports). This means this is really going to be a very big deal but will surely have astounding results. And possible.
If these are not done, honestly, the Dragonboat racing will just make a mockery of us. |
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