There are no words for this post. The song says it all for me. Every line is my life spelled-out.
I thank you for the inspiration while I sit here in anticipation of the year ahead... While I wait eagerly for my real life to begin. If only you can be there with me when it happens...

"Let me throw one more dice.
I know that I can win.
I'm waiting for my real life to begin."

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This guy Joma just won't give it a rest. Miles away from where we are, he is still "trying" to cause trouble here. And I say "trying" because from what I know, his "all-talk, no-show" antics have proved detrimental to the once-powerful group he "once" lead. Twenty years in exile and he hasn't figured out (just yet) what he's supposed to do for this country if he is indeed hell-bent on achieving that oh-so-big word called "change". Continue reading →

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We're only a few days away from 2009. As we bid adieu to 2008, let us look back at a few (or at least those I can still remember) of the significant events that changed the course of our future -- as a nation, as a race or maybe even as a person.

The Wonderful:

Manny Pacquiao winning over Oscar Dela Hoya. But more than that, it's Manny Pacquiao's success in competing with himself -- his expectations, his challenges, his goals and his dream. Not many people can do that.

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Forgive me if I'm not exactly jumping for joy over the latest stunt of former House Speaker Jose de Venecia. As you may have realized by now, I haven't even bothered to write about it even after a few days the news broke-out. I just had the urge to give you a piece of my mind after that fateful Wednesday morning when all hopes for a case were quashed in an instant. It's so fast, not to mention gruesome. Continue reading →

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The reality of poverty, for most of our brothers and sisters follow them to their death -- as is the case with Mang Pandoy -- the man showcased in the SONA (State of the Nation Address) by then President Fidel V. Ramos as a representative of the poor whose lives he aims to improve. Many years after that, the man born poor died poor. If you find it too harsh a word, I'm pretty sure there's a more politically-correct term for that. Underprivileged? Less fortunate? Economically-challenged? Gah. Does it matter how we call it? Apparently, it does not. For if we examine closely, "terms" don't change a reality. Is there anything more glaring than the reality of your family's incapacity to even give you a proper burial? My friends, Mang Pandoy lies "clad in a faded violet shirt, laid in an ordinary wooden coffin". His death is no poorer than the life he lived. The man clearly died "waiting on the world to change" -- waiting on his economic status to at least change from bad to fair. He died waiting for a chance at a better life. Continue reading →

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I do. It's so ironic when something that happens only ONCE a year can be so tiring to listen to. Tomorrow's SONA (State of the Nation Address) to be presented (or read--pun intended) by President Arroyo has not even happened yet but as early as now, I already feel a certain level of "exhaustion". Maybe that's because I read a lot of news.

Nevertheless, you may say (yes, I know), if you're really tired of it, then why write more about it? Well, you may have a point there, but that's how I am with something I find tiring or sickening -- I tend to think about it or talk about it pretty much everyday until my brain's short term memory passes the buck to my long-term memory. Continue reading →

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