Where is pong pagong

That, afterwards we can come to a better understanding of the realities in our world. But in the morning at weekends when we have time, we would watch Sesame Street, before Batibot came in the picture.

Batibot in the vernacular means small but strong and robust, which only shows that it can have a comeback and withstand commercialism in the media. Batibot premiered in the mid 80s, it was like the localized version of Sesame Street. If I remember it right, there was even a time that Sesame Street was aired using the vernacular. What saddens me though is due to legalistic constraints, as that of property and licensing rights, children who were getting to love Kiko Matsing and Pong Pagong would have to missed them from the show.

Sesame Street: The American children's show that taught and entertained Filipino kids in the 80s. Sesame was localized introducing Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing. I guess that demonstrates capitalistic apathy to children. I did not have this understanding of the situation when I was kid.

All that remain of them is memory of their classic friendship. People my age now, can still recall the vivid images of those two adorable and amusing characters. But because they are owned by Sesame Workshop, and probably the fees to use them are exhorbitant, we have to lose two cultural and media icons in Philippine television.

If we think about Kiko and Pong now, they are just probably rutting in the storage rooms as mascots. As animated icons of the show, the new generations may never see them again. That I would contest, for the names of these figures are culturally ours. Should culture then be patented like mascots, for us to have claim of them.

The issue is beyond licensing, franchising and intellectual property. The issue to keep Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing locked up in stock rooms, because of licensing concerns, is a moral dispute rather than economical or legalistic. It is a moral issue because the foundation has taken away from this country a culturally valued artifact.

Yes, it is true that the foundation brought them to life, but it is in Philippines that they have gained that life. Kiko Matsing and Pong Pagong are my favorite characters of course! Yes I do agree with your sentiments, I posted the link already to my facebook account… Hope that all those who care for our beloved Batibot characters support us on this one.

Share this link if you think we should have Kiko and Pong back in Batibot, their home for the Filipino kids. Paste the link on your facebook accounts and email it to your Filipino friends. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Dekonztruktschon thinkering thoughts.

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Pong was in the form of a turtle standing on its hindlegs. Like Big Bird of Sesame Street, Pong was an enlarged small-animal character, standing over six feet tall and towering over human co-stars and aged to be around six years old.

In both characters were pulled out from the show by the Children's Television Workshop CTW because of licensing issues. I was already working when I first saw Pong Pagong in one of the episodes in Batibot. I was very curious to find out how well the Batibot episodes were produced. It was satisfactory to me but I never liked Pong Pagong used as the main character of the show. I even had an argument with my officemate and said that it was wrong to use Pong Pagong.

My reason was Pong Pagong was the picture of our educational system here in the Philippines. Our public school system and even some privately owned schools were laggards compared to the educational systems of other ASEAN countries.

Our government have been using outdated educational materials and teachers lacked trainings to keep up with times. The result was many children have become illiterate and have poor analytical skills. Some high schools graduates were not even prepared to be college students while many college graduates were not ready to work due to lack of talent and skills. Until now, we still have what we call the Pong Pagong educational system.

We are slow to adapt new technologies in our educational system. Our teachers are poorly trained. Our books and workbooks are outdated. Many students who graduated still do not know how to read and write. We have remained in the bottom list as far as literacy rates are concern. We have yet to catch up with our neighboring countries. In fact, public school teachers are passing their students so that the public school will get a higher budget and the teachers will expect extra bonuses for the coming school year.