Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
“You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We'd all want to see the plan...
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead.”
- excerpt from The Beatles', 'Revolution'
Hearing people talk about how sick and tired they are about the government and how corrupt its officials are, ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Our local politicians are well-verse in utilizing the philosophy of deconstruction (in C. S. Pierce’ theory) on the issue of power crisis.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Most of the DYVL Siday have a consistent and persistent editorializing stance. Elisa Badilla Enage’s -- who hails from Balangiga, Eastern Samar -- siday Kauswagan (Progress) is a prime example to this type of poetry.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Sigon pa han pipira nga mga historyador han literatura, usa han mga kinaiya han maupay nga panidayan asay an iya pagpapatawa o pagpapahalipay ha mga manbarasa o manmarati niya. An siday ni Andres Pagaran nga “An Tanhas” -- ginmantala ini ni Voctor Sugbo han tuig nga 2005 -- usa nga ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Kadam-an, kun diri man nga tanan, ha mga siday han DYVL network – usa nga lokal nga istasyon ha radyo dinhi ha Sidlangan Kabisay-an – inin okasyonal ug nangongolitog (didactic) nga tipo hin panidayan.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Everyone has dreams of greatness. The levels vary and the desire to achieve them may differ among people, but there is that common desire to become better than one's current state.
Antonio Trillanes IV is no exception to that. A primary example of which is when he and several other soldiers, ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
If one thinks that it is easy to write a sensible poetry (in David Genotiva’s term), well, think again! Paul Engle spoke once, “The most terrible thing for a poet is to be confronted by a blank sheet of paper.”
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Undas na liwat, time to remember dead kith and kins and be reminded of our own mortality. But it can also be a time for us, the living, to think up of more evolved ways to bury our dead.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Last year, journalists and media peoples in the Philippines have become the front-page of all media print and broadcast materials. It is paradoxical that instead of authoring articles and writing production in the newspaper pages and columns, they become the principal subject of attention by the same publishing paper and ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
There are several versions of the truth. This fact is illustrated by Akira Kurosawa's film 'Rashomon' wherein a story of rape and murder is told by four different people which results in conflicting accounts of the story.
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