License to Love
In a report by The Philippine Star, the women’s party-list group 1-Ako Babaeng Astig Aasenso (1-ABAA) proposed a law that mandates a 10-year validity on marriage licenses. Margie Tajon, spokesperson of 1-ABAA, has a dream that one day, Filipinas can free themselves from the bondage of marriage. ...
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Campaign Jingle
The number 1 preoccupation for 2010 – politics – can take over Number 1; the politicization of urination, if you know what I mean. The Palace, for example, issued a statement that painting MMDA urinals green may help the political campaign of Gibo Teodoro. (On a side note, that’s...
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Maneki Neko
Edward Said, in his discussions of Orientalism, was quite furious – okay, pissed – with the exoticization and the Othering of people who aren’t from the West. When he was not brandishing his pen to write fiery opinions on the divide between the “exotic” Orient and the...
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A Few Hours Before 2010
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...
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The Year-Ender (In Haiku Form)
On one cold evening
As another year passes
Here’s to the future.
Twenty-o-nine sucked
The next year should be better;
If not, vendetta.
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A Stream on Cruelty
Generally we call cruelty that which we do not have the heart to endure, while that which we endure easily, which is ordinary to us, does not seem cruel. Thus what we call cruelty is always that of others, and not being able to refrain from cruelty we deny it as soon as it is ours. Such weaknesses...
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Daisuki Monogatari
There’s a movie in somebody’s mind, played over and over until the lines are committed to memory. The plot gets tightened in all the right places as it is run through the brain. Everyone knows the beginning of the tale, and no one knows – perhaps, no one cares – when and...
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2009 In Experiments
It was not a fun year for people who lost their homes, for the number of people who died, and the degrees of tragedy can still be quite difficult to cope with. The varying degrees of sucktitude can be summed up in a very long blog entry that summarizes feelings of hate, rage, and all around anger for...
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Merry Christmas
December 24, 2009
Zola Café, Baguio City
Beers and cigarettes. Nothing new here, except that it’s been a long time since I’ve been back home. Nothing really ever changes.
There are times that I’m tempted to think that Christmas is just another day, but definitely not today. Not...
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By the Bay
I took a walk along the seawall by the Mall of Asia, and looked far out into the water. Despite the rank smell of trash and seawater, the bay looked serene. The big mall and all its cheery Christmas lights cast reflections on the water; much as I hate malls and open bodies of water, the sight was...
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