Comments on: smoking issue

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:16:35 +0000

Hi Diliana,
Thanks for visiting my website.
You are allowed to use any of my pictures as long as you mention the source. Please refer to my website in every picture you use.

It will be hard to find the two girls on the picture, so asking them for permission will be difficult. They have posed for my camera so I assume there’s no problem.

Let me know when the article is available to read, and the address. I would like to read your story.

By: Diliana

Diliana — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:59:30 +0000

Hi Jan,
I am making a presentation about smoking in the Philippines. I would like to include some pictures. I wanted to know if I could use your photo of the two girls selling cigarettes. I am very conscious of copyright and permissions issues, so I would say that I would also need the permission of the girls in the photo to use their picture.

It would be great if you could contact me to let me know if this is OK or to discuss it.

Thank you!

By: Wendell Beiter

Wendell Beiter — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:03:52 +0000

Hello,I love reading through your blog, I wanted to leave a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation. Wishing you the best of luck for all your blogging efforts.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:34:22 +0000

Dave,
You’re so right.
This all happens in a country with a government with actors and where politicians make the show…..

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:06:27 +0000

One of the incongruities about the Philippines … a country where the public education system is stuggling at best. A pack of cigarettes costs about 30 or 40 pesos. A liter of local rum or gin costs about 85 pesos. A birth certificate for a child (without which s/he will _not_ be admitted to school) costs 600 pesos or more (could be a lot more if the family has to travel back to their ancestral province to get one from hospital ot church records).

I could be wrong here, but I think someone’s priorities are a bit skewed.