Milosevic has been judged and now dead. And so is Pol Pot, Hitler and all those faces of death and torture of the 20th century.
But there are still many others on the loose, enjoying their retirements on their ranch, and posh abodes; walking past camera men with glee and pride; powerful and renowned who could still twist the arms [...]

photo by missioncreep
Celebrations, sad background music from Mr. Lauchengco and cases of booze have already ended and our fresh graduates are now faced by the stinging reality of landing a job that they dreamt of and they deserve. Many are flocking the registrars’ office snaking their way through the empty halls to get their papers, and then some of [...]

photo by: grizzly
The scene was a little bit nostalgic and the melodramatic smoke rises and covered us: black robes, caps with dangling tassles, painted faces and perfectly ironed gowns ans slacks. But this time around, I am not anyone of them; I am a total expectator, but a proud expectator to be exact.
Earlier today, I [...]

This is Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech as the official Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party. Displaying with great will and at the same time humility, he thanks all those who supported him after a very long and rigorous campaign trail, trying to unite the Democrats and start the “change” in America.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that [...]

I have been out of the blogsphere for more or less two weeks. And those two weeks were really very excruciating, full of tension and tiring. Here are some facts that had happened to me on those weeks that I forcibly shut down the blogging side of me.
1. I presented my thesis proposal to my methods of research [...]

I think the policemen who blocked, stopped and intimidated us should not be the only people to blame about the incident on which our basic right to freely assemble and travel without any harassment were infringed.
On one instance in the encounter in Molino Road where we were stopped for almost an hour, one young police officer named Ramos was a [...]

The usual.
The day ended yesterday here at DLSU-D with the exodus of green and white rushing towards Gate 1 with some being cautious of the occasional falling from the heaven of snakes, eerie and hairy caterpillars that would make someone’s face swell to unrecognizable proportion, and some other what-do-you-call-that-whatever species joining the band. My co-faculty was once victimized by these [...]

I’d like to share one of the speeches shared by Mr. Butch Jimenez which has become one of my favorite. This commencement speech of Mr. Jimenez delivered by him at the 2006 Siliman University circulated the net and has won him different national and international awards.
Be moved.

93rd SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Luce Auditorium Lobby
March 26, 2006
Descending to the Top
Delivered by
Mr. Menardo “Butch” [...]