We beg to differ.
Two days after April Fools’ Day and I am still reeling in from the bitter truth that we are living in the days of a perpetual practical joke, with the general public being its perennial victims. Where jokes usually end in laughter, the Filipinos are on apparent overdose. It is a subtle and addictive substance…
Your perceptions will not change reality, but simply color it. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (2002) I just had what alcoholics call a moment of clarity. To think that once I could not see beyond the veil of our reality… to see those who dwell behind. I was once a…
Reminder: I decide not to censor some foul words that you will be encountering. I hate filtering words that doesn’t fit the side of my argument. Please read with caution, especially you KIDS. I’m beginning to rage harder now. I just played my fourth match in my game and still lose the game. All of…
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The much-awaited Easter holidays are coming up. In the Philippines they call it “Holy Week” presumably because over the several days that make up that “week”, people are supposed to reflect upon the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the events leading up to it as documented in the New Testament. One of…
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Like her or hate her, Kris Aquino is not going to go away and fade into oblivion anytime soon. Especially not after she was recognized for her talk show Kris TV at the USTv Students’ Choice Awards early this month. That award which she won had got her declaring that she’s happy to still be…
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It seems when things happen to be convenient for us, we are willing to lower the bar of the standards of decency we apply and the principles we presume to pontificate about. Recall how jeepneys were once regarded as “ingenious” quick solutions to what at the time was a grossly-misunderstood issue of mobility in a…
Ths real mission of the Second Aquino Presidency is in full swing as the groundwork for the ascent of the next Aquino to the presidency of the Philippines is now being lain. Family newsletter ABS-CBN News reports the almost unsurprising announcement from presidential sister Kris Aquino of her planned foray into politics… The Queen of…
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Reportedly catching eyes in Barangay Sagpon, Legazpi City, a lone poster proclaims in the Bicolano dialect: “Chiz neglected Bicol. Got P2-billion pork barrel but left the Bicolanos hungry” according to an Inquirer.net report. Amid the raging circus surrounding the fiery romance of Senator Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero and starlet Heart Evangelista and the ire of Evangelista’s…
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