Category: Social Media Posts

• A Brief Encounter That Will Challenge My Future 

  

  May 18, 2012  ·  This afternoon, I was alone in a room with her for several minutes, sharing with her my thoughts about how bad politics continue to divide my country, how programs are only as good as the term of a president, that even if a program is good, when a new president comes along, he or […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  May 18, 2022

  Social Media Posts

• Is Bacolod Ready for More Rizals, Bonifacios, Jacintos and Aguinaldos?

  

  The article below was my FIRST NOTE ON FACEBOOK posted on May 15, 2009: I envision a Philippines who is the seat of leaders who govern even for the sake of the Filipino children yet unborn, knowing and understanding that we lead today primarily because we want to make our country a much better country […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  May 15, 2022

  Social Media Posts

• THE TALE OF TWO DRIVES AND HOW TIME CHANGE THINGS

  Finally, I found an apt visualization of the point I constantly wish to drive. This is my example of the obsolete mentality of the Philippine society which I have constantly suffered and that our country is constantly suffering from. These objects in the picture are both gadget for storage. I bought the black drive six […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  November 18, 2021

  Social Media Posts

• Citizen Jocelle

  Written and shared on Facebook on October 8, 2021 Filing of COC is now officially closed! Thank you so much Lord for all the guidance for all these years! Twenty years ago, I made one of the biggest decisions in my life – and that is to run for public office. That decision completely changed […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  November 6, 2021

  Social Media Posts

• October 19 is A Special Day for Bacolod City

  Remembering what happened today 83 years ago. This is a long post – but I invite people who truly love Bacolod to spend a few minutes to read.Today, I personally celebrate an amazing and memorable moment in history for my beloved city of Bacolod. For the information of all my friends around the world, I […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  October 20, 2021

  Social Media Posts

• Outgrowing Our Youthful Ideals

  Written as a Facebook Note on October 17, 2010 Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Convenor, SMILE Bacolod Youth 2005 This country will never run out of young activists. I need to remind myself every day to hold on to my ideals, but I realize I am not getting any younger.  So it brings me comfort to know […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  October 17, 2021

  Opinion, Social Media Posts

• Integration and Utilization of ICT Towards a Better Nation

  Written as a Facebook Note on October 17, 2010 Our country will soon see a new ingredient in the formula to success – the full utilization and integration of information and communications technology to nation-building. At the rate we are going, we might be able to achieve this sooner than we thought with strong champions […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  October 17, 2021

  Opinion, Social Media Posts

• The Philippines Has Arrived

  Written October 1, 2010 to record the first public hearing on the proposed bill for the creation of a Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) There was certainty in his voice – the creation of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) would show the world that the “Philippines has arrived” as in […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  October 2, 2021

  Articles, Social Media Posts

• Random #Reflections on Facebook

  

  I decided to compile my posts with hashtag #Reflection on Facebook since I became a member more than ten years ago to keep a record of my personal thoughts and insights based on the various lenses I wear as a human being. The posts reflect my feelings, musings, reactions and opinions to a given development […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  September 5, 2021

  Social Media Posts

• 10 Things I Wish To See Happen Out of the CORONA Impeachment

  

  This reflection was written and shared on May 30, 2012 at the height of the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona. A truly independent judiciary. The next CJ must not be anyone within the circle of PNOY. If the President is bent on doing what is for the common good and constitutional, lawful and fair […]

  Jocelle Batapa Sigue

  May 30, 2021

  Social Media Posts