Nothing less
I just found out about Julia Campbell’s death from Theresa’s blog. She was a Peace Corps volunteer working in the Philippines for the past two years. She was set to go home in June but she went missing last April 8 and was found in a dry creek yesterday morning.
Is it weird and utterly pathetic to cry for a perfect stranger? Cause I did.
Like Theresa, I feel ashamed and angered. At the person/people who did this to her. At the unfairness of it all. A person drops everything she has ever known to help people she doesn’t know in a poor, and dangerous (that is pretty much established, no?) country, and this is what she gets.
She was a martyr.
I don’t know if I can be like her.
Sometimes, I feel guilty for wanting to be anything less.
The Right To Defend Oneself
One cannot be told of the immense power of guns and its influence in our living. But get a gun, hold it with both hands and shoot a target (an inanimate one, hopefully) and you’ll feel it: the power of a malicious mind and its thought unleashed by a cold, metallic, unfeeling machine to harm the object of its malice. It is a terrible power and not a few want it and believe that they deserve to own such power.
Many believe that guns are making hell out of the world we’re living in. Many also believe that government ought to put more stringent policies regarding gun ownership and storage. Some even believed that the whole citizenry should be stripped of all gun ownership rights. However, I think these people are looking at this issue on a narrow perspective. Did they really honestly think that by putting restrictions on citizens’ rights to acquire weapons for their own defense they could prevent a horrible incident as Virginia Tech University Shooting from happening? If perhaps that student who killed as much as 33 people in the campus wasn’t able to acquire a gun, evil will not fall on those people he wished to harm? He would have found other ways, perhaps a bomb, to pursue his evil intent.
If only perhaps all the weaponry in the world could be eradicated (anything that could be used as a weapon to harm people, so that could includes your butter knives, pencil points, ballpens, scissors, and other sharp-ended, seemingly mundane things), then maybe, just maybe, Va. Tech Shooting will not happen again. But guns were only instruments; it is the malicious thought of harming people that kills people.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Cho Seung-Hui
Do not get me wrong. I am proud of Manny Pacquiao and his many accomplishments. Although boxing as a sport does not interest me, I am glad that Manny has brought recognition to our country.
The Pacquiao vs. Solis match was held April 15, 2007 and was shown on television at 10am. About 80% of the Philippine population were glued to tv sets (not necessarily theirs) around the nation. It seemed as if the nation was put on hold. Everyone and everything was quiet. A momentary ceasefire. Who could have imagined that peace can be brought on simply by holding a boxing match with Pacquiao as contender?
The problem is competency, not political dynasty
This message on the Ang Bagong Pinoy yahoo group led me to this website.
The author is calling for a tsunami of outrage through click and text. While I believe that his intentions are pure, I just can’t imagine how his means will bring him to his objective of dismantling political dynasties . Again, this is a classic example of the elite mindset. Click and text may only be a start of something since he claims that this campaign is for the long haul. But still, the approach is elitist.
Need To Enjoy Sex
My admirer in the Yahoo! Answers emailed me about sex and how to enjoy it.
I am not really a well experienced one on sex but I need to answer the questions for her or else she’ll turn her back at me and forget that there’s a time that she admired me.
Read my answer on Sex and Sexual Intercourse here.
An Inconvenient Truth: Watch it for FREE
I received this advise from our booking, please pass the word.
On Earth Day, April 22, 2007, SM Cinema, together with DENR, Earth Day Network Philippines, and Magnavision, invites you to watch free screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth†at 1PM, 3PM, and 5PM on the following theaters:
Random Hot Men: Raphael Sander
Starting today, Random Hot Men will be written in English, just like the old days.
Since every hot guy in the Philippines has been covered by every gay blog I know, I decided to venture out of my horizon and focus my attention on the most delicious men outside of The Islands.
And what better way to start my man hunting but to venture to the land of Ipanema, Carnival, and man-god Lucas Gil.
Yes, my friends, it’s Brazil, probably one of the…no, make that THE place of the most scorching males ever created.
I searched from the Amazon Basin to the summit of Pico de Neblina, and after hours of painstaking googling and self-deliberation, I have finally found him.
The Harlot Salmon With Bacon Thongs And Etc.
My whole weekend wasn’t that really interesting except for some few cookouts with friends. We also watched some few episodes of Dead Like Me which is an absolutely fab series. I love the bitchy lines they have there just like Ugly Betty. Now, I’ve been thinking that once I die I hope that I can work as a grim reaper or something like that.
Messy cookout = having fun!
Regarding the cookout, I always like cooking with a bunch of people. I get bored and can’t think of creative ways to cook something even if my life depends on it when I am alone. I don’t know if it is just me but how about you guys?
Anyway, my piece de resistance was The Harlot Salmon With Bacon Thongs. If you asked me why I named it as such because I like the sound of it. Plus it is vulgar which adds a little extra to something.
Heroes Episode 19 “0.07%”
Ok. If you just had goosebumps like me right after you read that date then you that could probably be caused by just two things. One is that April 23 is your birthday or you are a Heroes fanatic like me. Yup, Heroes is the bomb (well at least Ted is)! April 23 would be a holiday for me! I’m gonna lock all doors, close all windows and turn off my cellphone! If I’m not returning all your text messages or calls please do remember that it is April 23 (well, April 24 here in the Philippines) wait for the next day or until I get over the Episode 19.
Change Management
Growth = Changes = More Growth or Plateau
Changes if not managed well can either reverse or reduce the growth. Thus, leaders, entrepreneurs and bloggers must all learn basic change management skills.
The rest of the post at Sonnie’s Porch Â
