http://adayinthelifeofrj.com If you think your life is uneventful, wait until you read mine. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:23:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Year 2007 -- it was all about the environment. This year -- 2008 -- it's time to talk about POVERTY. Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. Coming from an impoverished country of 90 million people, living with highly-talented, young and promising citizens, I urge you all, people of ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/blog-action-day-2008-lets-change-the-conversation/ Today's article at abs-cbnNEWS.com "From Brink of Peace to Brink of War" by Atty. Soliman M. Santos, Jr. brings to mind my long-held stand on the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (BJE MOA on AD). Over three weeks since the Supreme Court issued a Temporary Restraining ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/live-and-let-live-the-non-negotiable-solution-bangsamoro-bje-moa/ It's about time we go out of our old and outdated 19th century practices. It's about time we take matters into our own hands. This is our country's future anyway. This is our children's future at stake here. It's about time we say Yes to: Information and access to natural and modern family ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/yes-to-rh-philippine-reproductive-health-bill-online-petition/ ***WARNING:*** Boring post ahead. ---------------------------------- My astrological sign is Aries. Aries people -- so I've read, usually suffer from diseases of the head. Psychological maybe? Maybe. Or of a more physical sort? Probably. Whatever it is. I am proof that horoscopes and character-typing, in the realm of the planets -- has some truth in ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/it-strikes-again/ In observance of "Buwan ng Wika", the following article was written entirely in Filipino and will take exception from my blog language policy. http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/akoy-pinoy-na-mayroong-sariling-wika/ I need not elaborate. I'm sure any of you reading this have heard the news -- endless and hopeless as it may seem. Fighting continues in Mindanao. Ambush here. Strafing there. Evacuations here and there. Oral arguments re: unconstitutionality of BJE MOA (which, by the way, has been extended Firday ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/eyes-on-the-prize/ Four years, four months and thirteen days after I was born -- someone died. It would have been any ordinary day. That person would have any ordinary person. He could have lived any ordinary life. He could have died for any ordinary reason. But no. August 21, 1983 is no ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/i-am-ninoy-benigno-aquino/ MLQ3's recent post "Berserkers and a breather" in Inquirer.net's "CURRENT" is an enlightening article. Unlike most widely-read posts spawned by bloggers mainly from Manila and other parts of Luzon -- which tend to rely heavily on news reports -- therefore, unintentionally appearing or turning-out one-sided and half-baked, this one gives ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/just-thinking-out-loud/ As the situation in Mindanao remains fluid, the people's future remain uncertain.  The road to peace is now littered with grenade. Who would now dare tread that path? To say that it is difficult to talk peace at a time like this is an understatement. I need not reiterate the ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/you-and-what-army/ The events of late speak for itself. We have gone to war. Continuous attacks from the MILF, aggravated by an ambush at Lanao del Sur, followed by killing civilians and burning houses are but indications of clear and present danger. Chief of Staff, General Alexander Yano calls it a "virtual ... http://adayinthelifeofrj.com/2008/08/deferred-peace-is-expedited-war/