Let the citizenry asseverate. May it aspire for the best society for itself, the society of S. P. Lopez’: free, pluralistic, egalitarian, participatory, self-restrained and humane. This is a strong wish and affirmation. Ah, yes, Mencius, the purest of Confucius’ students, once expressed: During the reigns of the benevolent Emperors Wu […]
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You are the Batch [1997-2001] and the Mandala, here I address. I am one of the nameless ones you now are set to leave behind, who shall tend Diliman like an unbounded field of knowledge that it is, and entrain the new and ever coming batches towards the same liberal orientation of the UP […]
I have one daydream. I would Dr. Lagmay were at my funeral to speak about my gentle side–a side that perhaps there was none or that any other could not perceive no matter how he tried, and therefore could not speak about. In effect, it is to this daydream that I welcome you […]
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
just look up
it’s amazing how this blog entry has transformed. from the original gloomy almost jaded tone it took as one of the many drafts i had, it metamorphed in to one that bordered on despair, and now as if by the whim of one single note of an eternal and […]
Call me a wimp.
There. I have said it. After thirty-plus years of existence I have finally said it aloud, to anyone who might care to listen. Blame it on my middle-child upbringing, in a large family at that — not to mention a family with parents and siblings who seemed to perform certain things well, […]
Sunday, August 5, 2007
one of those times i just have to write. with helluva lot of requirements under my belt. this doesn’t really feel good. but then again. it never does.
Summer 07 was my worst summer ever.
2.5 and 3.0
Days cooped behind a blinking screen.
Loneliness.
Hours warped inside a fictitious world.
Minutes soon forgotten.
Sweat.
Two classes.
2.5 and 3.0.
I took […]
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All Souls’ Day and All Saint’s Day remind us of eternity. Some of us get so engrossed with worldly things we forget that eternity is waiting. We all will leave this world someday. We all will go. But, where are we going? From God we came, to God we will go back. Make sure as […]
4 July 92
Avril P. David
Dear Avi,
After the rainy day yesterday, today is pleasant and sunny. Everyone must be enjoying the day itself, but specially its independence meaning. To an American, July 4th is the day when this English Colony in the New World declared its independence as state from Great Britain. And […]
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Another favorite of his …
how I pray that in each occasion, in every gathering, you are, in one form or another, still there with us…