There was nothing unusual about my day today. And it’s exactly the ordinariness of this day that made me want to thank God.
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Waves
Having therefore such stillness You succumb to solitude A solitude so intense You can hear it budge You quell what is left Of the bustle in your pride You fret swiftly then rapidly Until a deafening hush Necessitates your exit from your past You and I We can row toward Where the sparkling rays Send [...]
A Train Ride & Two Films
I prefer trains to airplanes. The only advantage of planes over railway cars is speed. What I particularly like about trains is the ample space it affords every passenger. If you want to have a feel about how tight a Guantanamo prison cell is, just take an economy class flight. But if you want to sit [...]
Primavera
You know that spring has officially arrived in Italy when you begin to see girls wearing next to nothing. And that’s exactly what I saw in the streets of downtown Rome today. I can only imagine what they’ll wear when summer comes. Now that winter is past and primavera is here, it means to me [...]
99% of My Blood is Cappuccino
Of course I am exaggerating. But if you drink three cups of cappuccino a day, you’d feel like you can’t live without it anymore. I am a late bloomer when it comes to coffee drinking. It is probably because nobody in my family wontedly drank coffee. Or that I never tasted a good one until [...]
Photography as Poetic Statement
If you show a photo of canine food to a dog, it wouldn’t salivate much less eat the picture. However, a mother who sees a snapshot of her dead son would cry. Only humans react emotionally and physiologically to a photograph. Whenever I look at that sunrise photo I took one frigid morning last December [...]
Monochrome Tuesday
It’s been three days now since I last saw the sun. Everywhere you look you see life in monochrome. The overcast clouds, the wet streets, faces of people, the bare trees, the dust hanging in the polluted air – everything in grayscale. What brought sunshine to my day was a small notebook, a gift from [...]
The New York I Came To See
New York, USA Immediately after breakfast, Bro. Richard drove me to South Bend regional airport. The airport was relatively small, almost as small as the Ilo-ilo domestic airport. We arrived one hour early for my flight. When I checked in I asked for a window seat. There were not many passengers. The half-full plane (or [...]
News For Sale
The Corruption of the Philippine Media This essay is based on the monograph entitled News for Sale: The Corruption of the Philippine Media by Chay Florentino-Hofileña. The book shows that the corruption of the Philippine media is pervasive, creative, sophisticated, institutionalized and systematic – thus making it difficult to detect and problematical to straighten out. [...]
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