Cairo address of President Barack Obama
how could i let it pass. regardless of how different minds viewed his messages, i subscribe to his soothing ideas and will always believe in his dreams. what else is there to dream anyway.
here comes a level headed leader from an apparent mighty who tries to touch the hems of the east…
on a personal level, subscription to sharp and rational minds is only my way of fleeting away from insanity. am afraid am halfway there…
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
“Into the Wild”
i thought when i was reassigned in the mountains to work once more for the government three months ago, it would just be one of the many unfair practices this social order operates that i’ve been trying so hard to get accustomed to in my almost fifteen years of government service. No use of crying over spilled milk, am out to prove a work to be done just not to compromise the direction that i thought i should be and to get off this crazy and cruel system. This is how things work, i’l just admit. I know i’l be diverted from the usual course again and be in the brink of isolation and sadness though i’ve been there in the many times of my life. though mine could never be a unique experience, i always have thoughts about where am i really going just so because this universe does not conspire to those that i really work hard with. i like to live there, no doubt about it but i have my plans, that to immense once more into the wild is no longer the one i needed at this stage of my life.
A friend of mine, my junior in law school, which i suppose could have been one of the most sensible woman i ever talked with, once told me while waiting for the 2008 bar result ( she did not make it. she’s the most expected to pass the bar in their batch. how difficult could have been…. how could i not know? ) that she does not intend to live beyond forty years old. she said there’s nothing more to live for in this world. (as to what direction else that have not been traversed by history.) i do not know what’s in her mind. she could easily get anything she wish for without lifting a finger.she got it all i suppose. she’s driving a brand new car from her parents. I told her, maybe just of dreaming that one day we could both visit machu picchu is a good reason to live just to extend the period she established. She sticks with her idea.
I could just be tracing for one more person to view the world on a different angle in a gallant strive to be immaculate. Or maybe am looking for an answer to my endless question if there’s one really in charge in drawing my path or is there anybody who holds the sketch of my life (or should i thought there’s one alive?) I found however a soul who wished to divert from the usual to find solace and ultimately, happiness, bravely embraced life that he long in the most unusual way. i wish i could relate to such and well define my purpose as i seek my space whatever and wherever that maybe.
One of this person’s most interesting quotes comes from a letter he had written to a friend he had made while hitchhiking:
‘So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun’.(italics mine)
“Alexander Supertrump”
(1968-1992)
Life of
Christopher Johnson Mccandless
Source: www.buzzle.com
she rules
“how could i not loved you”
Georgia (Jane Fonda) replied
when her daughter asked if she ever loved her.
Georgia Rule (2007)
Today is March 8.
Happy International Women’s Day!
“‘E pluribus unum.’ out of many, one…. “
My stepfather Lolo said, “Men take advantage of weakness in other men. They’re just like countries in that way. The strong man takes the weak man’s land. He makes the weak man work in his fields. If the weak man’s woman is pretty, the strong man will take her. Which would you rather be? Better to be strong. If you can’t be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who’s strong. But always better to be strong yourself. Always.”
Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 37 Aug 1, 1996
wind chimes
One of the few films i watched more than five (5) times, based on a 1991 best sellling authobiography of the same title, “I Dreamed of Africa (2002)”, (Kuki Gallman) always brings me back to where my heart longs to rest…..to the beats, the chimes and the wilderness and perhaps to where a not so fascinating life could be.
cling……cling…… back to my world, my reality… my cold books for another feat. Hopefully this time, to adhere for the right reason.
I yield to a mantra that no one should not be so consummated to anything that one cannot walk away with in life or so i thought. But i guess i now succumb to the exception of the rule.
Support for Reproductive Health Bill (HB 4503)
The BIG NO for the passage of this bill posted conspicuously along one the major streets in my place spearheaded by a religious group with many reasons one of which is that it is anti life reminded me of the many baseless NOs and DON’Ts i grew up with. Incidentally, there are no public reactions whatsoever i can sense amidst nationwide reactions in its favor.
A high school classmate and friend just a month ago passed away carrying, on her ninth month her third baby who died with her. She was already warned of the danger of conceiving another life. She paid for it. Another case of the maternal and child mortality statistics in the Philippines. Another friend is carrying an unplanned pregnancy also her third amidst the economic condition of her family. I often wonder if such is an informed option generally women would choose.
I strongly believe that it is absolutely not an anti life measure but rather, it saves lives of women and children. It is a policy that delineates and defines facts from fallacies and myths, as well as strengthens the long institutionalized right, to choose, to be informed and the right to decide what’s best for one’s own body. To quote Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio, a Catholic priest in the PCIJ Article (Church Gain in Population Policy is the Women’s Lost by Jaileen F. Jimeno, www.pcij.org) “Nobody should dictate the choices couples should take, not even the Pope, not even the president.”
It is an overdue policy that’s taking too long.
Rep. Edcel Lagman, the principal author of Reproductive Health Bill and Population Development Act of 2008, explained in an article published in Inquirer.net:
The reproductive health (RH) bill promotes information on and access to both natural and modern family planning methods, which are medically safe and legally permissible.
The bill does not have any bias for or against either natural or modern family planning. Both modes are contraceptive methods. Their common purpose is to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
The bill will promote sustainable human development.
Coverage of Reproductive Health:
- Information and access to natural and modern family planning
- Maternal, infant and child health and nutrition
- Promotion of breast feeding
- Prevention of abortion and management of post-abortion complications
- Adolescent and youth health
- Prevention and management of reproductive tract infections, HIV/AIDS and STDs
- Elimination of violence against women
- Counseling on sexuality and sexual and reproductive health
- Treatment of breast and reproductive tract cancers
- Male involvement and participation in Reproductive Health
- Prevention and treatment of infertility, and
- Reproductive Health education for the youth.
One of the many petitions for its passage is on line www.petitiononline.com to wit:
To: Philippine Congress
We are seriously disturbed that more than 10 Filipino women die every day due to pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. The big majority of those who die are poor women at the prime of their lives.
We are alarmed that 29 out of 1,000 infants die due to various sickness and illnesses that are preventable and curable.
We are troubled that 4.9 million Filipino youth, aged 15-27 are sexually active but programs that would ensure their safety and help them become more responsible in dealing with their sexuality and relationships are severely lacking. Especially worrisome is the fact that 1 out of 5 female teenagers get pregnant before they reach their 20th birthday.
These are just a few of the problems in the midst of the ongoing economic crisis, escalating poverty, and the ever-increasing prices of basic commodities and services. Moreover, the Philippine population grows unabated with almost 2 million individuals added every year. Researches consistently show that poverty is more prevalent among big families compared to smaller ones.
The acute lack of services and information regarding reproductive health:
* results in the untimely death of women and children;
* is the reason why our youth are largely unprepared to deal with matters pertaining to their sexuality and relationships; and
* exacerbates the effects of economic crisis and poverty on millions of ordinary Filipinos, especially those with big families.
We believe that Filipinos, particularly the poor, urgently need access to information and services that will address their reproductive health needs.
We believe that a rights-based, comprehensive, and responsive reproductive health law will help empower Filipinos to achieve a better quality of life.
We firmly believe that the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill into law will help actualize people’s, especially women’s rights to make informed decisions.
Therefore, we call on our legislators to pass the Reproductive Health Bill into law now.
