I revisited Nick Joaquin, (1917-2004), by reading his 1960 novel, ‘The Woman Who Had Two Navels’ as my encounter with his short story ‘ The Legend of the Virgin’s Jewel’, in 1967, a must read in our English composition in high school, left me a faint imagery of the goatherd who offered milk to the…
Thomas Jefferson If there is a constitutional crisis in the Republic, the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines (SCORP) has brought it upon the country- it has only itself to blame. It is all right for an individual to have an ego as huge as the Himalayan trenches, but if an institution like…
I was for Senator Noynoy Aquino, though I am in America and during his campaign I have twice remitted small amount of money through his Yellow and Honest Movement, Inc. Noynoy and his teammate Sen. Mar Roxas won by wide margin from the U.S.-Pinoy electorate. I could only guess that if half of those who…
Writing at Filipino Voices (FV) is a time-consuming endeavor and I do not have the time. But glancing at FV does not require so much time and glancing at it lately, I was shocked to find the collective “Voice” shrilled and frayed over HR 1109, a resolution that some say is a precursor to…
(This letter was received by CJ Puno on September 8, 2008 and he did not even care to respond to the letter). August 29, 2008 Dear Chief Justice Puno; Our nation is in turmoil – our institutions are in constant challenge – we have always been under social strife. Amidst this turmoil, people come to…
VIDEO UPLOAD COURTESY BY:Ubermensch4ever “My grandfather explained about the spirit world, how the souls of our ancestors continue to need love and attention and devotion. Given these things, they will share in our lives and they will bless us and even warn us about disasters in our dreams. But if we neglect the souls of…
“When the printing press had received Tony’s cover design for the book, people in the layout department were disconcerted to find what they thought was a blurry and fuzzy image of a building in between the titles and my name. They had lost no time in asking me to contact Tony and ask him…
Inasmuch as this is my first attempt at book writing, the pressure to come up with something that will stand the test of the times was tremendously smothering; difficult as writer Clarence Day’s standard that good books outlast the monuments and civilizations built by men: “still young, still as fresh as the day they…
Court trial in Metro Manila is a time consuming endeavor. One would get up early in the morning to go to his court assignment and reach the court after one or three hours travel because of the traffic jam in the streets of Metro Manila. Though you wake up at five in the morning and…
Chapter 2 “There have been instances when the Supreme Court has legitimized official action offensive to human rights and disruptive of Constitutionalism. Hence, as we await the decision of the current Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the gag rule in Executive Order 464, and of Proclamation 1017 and the various official actions it…
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