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Yes, You Should Not Trust The Government, But You Have To Move On Somehow

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, ...

Of Deconstruction and Politician

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.

Critique to Enage’s Kauswagan

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.

An Makatatawa nga Romansa ni Pagaran

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 ...

Hingyap ko Magkritisar ug Magdayaw

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.

Of Petty Wars and Revolutions that Lost their Meaning

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, ...

The Agony in Writing a Poem

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.”

LGU Eco-Cemeteries

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.

Writer’s Awareness is Writer’s Press Freedom

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 ...

On the Truth

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.