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Arthur Rimbaud once wrote that life is the farce we are all forced to endure. In many ways, the past year was a farce: a comedy of everything that can go wrong. A global recession, calamities from nature’s wrath, and the ongoing joke that is Philippine politics. Still, here we are: a few hours before [...]
Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you what you are. – Savarin Given any other circumstance, we wouldn’t be so mad. We wouldn’t be so angry with other conspicuous displays of ostentatiousness; a neighbor buys a car, for example, or they call out for their children to go home while describing what’s for [...]
To the august and honorable members of the House of Representatives, I write this letter in the knowledge that within my inalienable right to free speech, I have the right to condemn, to dissent, and to express. My knowledge is limited, and my grammar is flawed. My eyes are not privy to law books, nor [...]
I hate to vent and be angry, but I have to. I was walking along Katipunan one afternoon when an interesting sight caught my eye, and was caught by my cellphone camera. It’s one of those ordinary sights one should already get used to: the sight of a magkakariton, taking a welcome respite from the [...]
It started as someone’s dream, to make a better day No one had foreseen what that dream became Step by step we marched ahead, never looking back The future’s always brighter, next to the remnants in our tracks. – Wolfgang, Atomica Anyone my age has developed some degree of political awareness without a firsthand experience [...]
Cross-posted from The Marocharim Experiment A few days ago, I wrote about how “sick books,” represented by a book called “English For You and Me,” is a betrayal of the next generation. In the February 2, 2009 issue of the Inquirer, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus makes a pretty good excuse (if you will) for the errors in [...]
Citing the low approval ratings of President Macapagal-Arroyo, the Palace has directed government agencies to attribute all their projects to her. “Departments were reminded to give credit to PGMA” during a Jan. 9 meeting of the administration’ Ad-hoc Communications Group, according to Ramon Bacani, education undersecretary for regional operations. – Arroyo brand on gov’t projects [...]
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