Unfolding

. Her voice . The scent of her hair when she hugs me . Her hugs . Her “okay raka babe?” . Her “baaaaaabe!” . Her “babe palihug ra gud ko. . . .” . The scent of her used clothes and handkerchiefs . Her cooking (bihon, adobo, paksiw, paliyaaaaa, mga sinabaw, sunny side up and omelet, bagiou beans, fried rice, utan . . . .) . Photos of her and us . When she sings . Her reaction when I fart . When she farts . Her good mornings and good nights . Bedtime cuddle . Her reminding me when I will exercise . Her playing out loud Ed Sheeran songs (newly acquired) . Her “babe hilota ko bi” . Her “huuuuuuy baabe” or “amaw man ka babe” or “buang man ka babe” to my green jokes . Her “tugnaw babe, ang electric fan!” . Her concern for my health (cooks food and monitors me everytime) . Her “okay ra akong kilay babe?” . Her “dili ra kabang akong nawng babe?” . Her “ramen ta babe naaaa!” . Her “kapila naman tika i...

I remembered I use to write what I felt for my wife especially when I first knew her as a person that fancied my attention. It was the moment when I felt extreme joy and so too is her name that I cannot help but write my heart in the desire, the passion, and the mixed emotions I was into. The first time I saw her and begin to notice her, she definitely fueled a passion that I had never experienced in my life and that is the longing to be with someone and for that time that thought reached to marriage already. However, early as it was it was good to dream, fantasize an eternity with her. As every typical bachelor goes for the time being I went for my future and that was to pursue her. The spark during those times was so immense that it drives mind active when thoughts of her and if not, she herself is in front of me having strolls or having a good meal together. I kept telling to myself back then she is the one for me. Her gentleness, kindness and being soft melt me into being that...

                Nature has her ways to do a facelift. Her course is violent. To create a homeostasis coming from too much carbon footprints needs to have catastrophe. The catalyst brings chaos, the catalyst is chaos and as every night that passes by comes the dawn, just like every storm that brings tranquility also is forest fire to new life. The wheel that governs birth and rebirth must have suffering in between, at worst death. Pain and joy are indeed two sides of the same coin and in this case we always hearken to joy as the consequent and the last. A moment’s triumph is felt in its prime after a monumental struggle. These are inexorable laws of nature and I am bound by such determinism.                 A perfect family does not exist. Error should be an outcome coming from an incapacity that is not willed but allowed since it is b...

Let me leave you with my thoughts. The semester has never been me spoon feeding concepts that can just be looked upon a dictionary and with the overabundance of the internet nowadays. If I were to spoon feed you with ethics then it would be tantamount to an angry Moses preaching to a sinful Mesopotamian minority about the 10 commandments and that would be simply brainwashing not education.  To those who managed to cope with the situation and eventually triumphed it then that is a jolly good show for you and a deep thanks and appreciation from me by proving your worth. Anyways I have to thank people for being smart and intelligent in a world plagued with idiots and incompetent douchebag shallow people.  Although my task is to educate, but by giving the fish rather than teaching to fish then I have given an understatement of what is truly to educate. To educate is to liberate. Heard of Plato's allegory of cave? At some point wherein the ascension to liberation takes pla...

             If there is one tyranny that I would gladly surrender myself and that is the tyranny of reason. However, the world I am immersed into is a tyranny of the old, the titled and so called professed. The academe is indeed a bastion of excellence, a spawning pool for potential great people, but the breeders are themselves hog washed by the illusion of being immutable and infallible. When title, position and a touch of “self-proclaimed-hoodness” are the primary elements that reinforce their bearing in the environment then what we have is failure of democracy. We, the “have-nots”, too have that self-proclaim-hoodness; however, it is title and position that we do not have and we know the world functions in a hierarchy and at times that hierarchy is founded on power play and not on reason.             As a lover of wisdom, I reject power as truth but let truth be power and that I have no qu...

             Thinking has to do with mastery of language and Heidegger once said that “language is the house of being” and being is because of thinking. I have listened to a lot of people lately who are already in college but the problem is “Are they really in college?”. I kept on reflecting why thinking ever since is one of the major problems of human beings and maybe it is right to question Aristotle’s claim of man being a rational animal or it is right to say that others are not even human beings to begin with. English is not the measure of one’s intelligence; however, some people are plagued by a disease that even their own language they do not have the words to express for the sake of conversation and being understood.             Having known also Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action , it is a presumption according to him that there should be rationality among human beings so that t...

“Once more, the apparently contrary emotions of joy and sorrow have been fused, so that the one, far from undoing its opposite, reinforces it, becomes an element in its full expression. Each new joy is the crown of its predecessor, so that emotion itself is related to the inclusive effect of majesty; at the same time , this joy expresses itself in tears, in a sorrow which ‘wept to take leave of them’ in the moment of being replaced by the joy of new discovery.” -         -   Shakespeare:  The Last Phase by Derek Traversi Eternal rest as they say when someone dies. Rest is what makes any person happy after toil but that is rest for a moment. Even so, it makes any man who had exerted so much calm and enjoys a good and happy idle moment. When man is always at rest then he is dead. He is dead for he has already ceased to move. Life ends when motion eternally ends. Life is all about struggle to survive and that in itself is motion. When that activit...