I have three days before I get to live with forceps, clamps, and laboring mothers in the delivery room for one month. What I am mostly excited about during free days like this is that I get to look
around the internet for online reads and videos, or TV shows at random that I could at least consider as productive, or is it?
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| Image taken from a video added by rhisoler via youtube.com |
Today I decided to go Filipino; to talk something about this Juan country, more specifically its television media.
One thing I have noticed is that Philippine’s local morning programs have changed abundantly through the years. Most children today find their alternatives on computers, PSPs, and other gadgets.
Mr.Bean and Spongebob are the ones who usually greet the tele-viewers every morning. Maybe, most of the cartoon shows today have their own brand of teaching their audience with morals. But I have myself confident to defy modern day skeptics in saying that the novelty worth of today’s shows is nothing compared to the shows before. Hiraya Manawari is but one of the many valuable programs the television of the 90s has offered.
Hiraya Manawari, a highfalutin tagalog phrase which means “reach your dreams” has elaborated good morals and life’s greatest lessons about love, family, respect, honesty, discipline and other values. The stories of each episode were simple and easy to understand yet made a great impact on its viewers (myself included).
Those lucky few who were able to watch programs like it would agree that producing the same shows nowadays would serve up so much values especially on children.
And for those who miss singing along with Hiraya Manawari’s famous intro, here’s a video with the lyrics below:
