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“I visited the largest cities of America with their big buildings, electric lights, and magnificent conceptions. Undoubtedly America is a great country, but it still has many defects. There is no real civil liberty. In some states, the Negro cannot marry a white woman, nor a Negress a white man.”
- Jose Rizal, Philippines National Hero, July 1888
Reading about Madonna Decena felt like meeting an old acquaintance at some random street. It has the jarring effect of flooding my memories with celebrities.
I was surprised to find out that my former classmate Madonna Decena is now a singer in Britain. I wouldn’t even find out about it if it wasn’t for the Filipino blogs. The 2004 American Idol was the last talent show I’ve watch, which only goes to show how out of touch I am with these type of TV shows.
My last memory of Madonna was in Quezon City, way way back when we were just kids. She was one of those types, those daughters which mothers are usually proud of. She was the top of the class. I remember when the best in classroom decoration contest came, she proposed we use crumpled manila paper to serve as a mountain in our mounted wall fresco. It was an almost ingenious idea.
A lucky bettor won the largest lotto jackpot prize in Philippines history. Here’s my 7 unsolicited advice to the winner:
A Pro-life group in Davao City will storm the city council meeting on Tuesday. Archbishop Fernando Capalla criticized the city government for allegedly implementing sex education in villages despite opposition from the Church.
Philippines Food shortage is caused in part by population growth said The EU and Fidel Ramos. The Catholic Church disagrees.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
- Mahatma Ghandi
There is an ongoing cold war in the Philippines Blogosphere today. The battle lines have been drawn, sides were taken, warning shots fired. The result is a messy Mexican standout where neither of the warring faction wants to back down. The only thing that keeps this from going into a full scale war is reputation.
Philippines used to be to be leading rice exporter in the 1970s. But by 1998, we have lost this leadership and became a rice importer. How sad. How we came to import 40% of our rice now is a story worth telling.
Philippines DepEd is about to launch it’s nationwide sex education program.
Philippines used to be a model of sex education in Asia. Countries like China, Japan, even Thailand used to look up to us. Not anymore. After decades of bit by bit, year by year chipping away at the DepEd sex education program, the Catholic Church has eroded our leadership.
After suffering a defeat, the theological empire strikes again.
The church bullying tactics reminds of an old fable wherein a scorpion asked a frog to carry him across a river. The frog, wary of the scorpion’s sting, was apprehensive. The scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, both of them would drown. The frog, persuaded by the logic of the seemingly harmless request, agrees. They both drowned. “Why?” asked the frog. “I’m a scorpion. It’s my nature,” the scorpion answered.
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