Monday, June 25, 2012

Doing the Impossible

We're not Singapore, Hongkong or Australia because we have over 7,000 islands. We have the resources to get our people out of poverty so we should not let our country be raped by big corporations out of these wonders.

Ecotourism is the way to go. I've seen it happen and I've made it happen. In just 2-3 years, you can get people out of poverty with proper planning, marketing, building toilets and infrastructure... Because God already spent over thousands of years to make our country beautiful.

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The problem of our government is that their so stuck in these culture of rules and regulations that they forget what these laws are made for. Our government should commit to principles, to the truth, to the common good.

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I'm not against mining, I'm against the methods and practices of mining here in our country. They plan to do an open pit mining on South Cotabato by digging an open pit covering over 643 hectares (over 7x Ateneo's land mass and bigger than UP Diliman's 493 hectares) and 900 meters deep (twice that of the Empire State Building). That's on top of a fault line. Surrounded by rice fields, seas and marine life! That's crazy. Open pit mining is even illegal in Canada and yet their mining industry is rich.


- Words of Wisdom by Regina "Gina" Lopez, Managing Director of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc.

Proactive people with "impossible" advocacies never ceases to amaze me. God I'm so inspired. :D 




Monday, June 4, 2012

Chasing Cars

SUCH A LATE POST! Forgot to post this from my phone!
0058H April 10, 2012

Chasing Cars - Damn this song; it never fails to hit the bullseye every single time. I remembered how difficult, or erase that, how impossible it was for me to hear the mere tune of the song before. And now, six years after, hearing the song while finding myself staring at such a beautiful night sky instantly brought tears to my eyes.

I know I was the first one who stopped believing in us, the first one who doubted our plans and future together. But eventually, you were the brave one who did what I couldn't - you pulled away. And that crushed me. Struck every fiber of my being with pain so intense, it almost devoid the life out of me. It made me want to pull away too, and this time, not just from you.

In my twenty five years, our breakup was probably the saddest point of my existence, and learning how to get back from losing you entirely, the hardest period of my life.

We had our closure two years after we parted, and stayed in touch even after. Yet year after year, I find you, and us, slipping away; making unfamiliar strangers out of us. I know that's really the way it is, just thought we were different because what we had was special and a first for us. Wishful thinking much.

I have been over you for the longest time already, forgave you for dragging me to your self-imposed darkness and even allowed myself to let you in again after. So I'm not writing this because I'm longing for you. I guess I'm doing so out of disappointment, because I thought we were better than this.