“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 [...]
Our local politicians are well-verse in utilizing the philosophy of deconstruction (in C. S. Pierce’ theory) on the issue of power crisis.
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.
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 ehemplo hini nga tipo hin [...]
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.
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, called the Magdalo Group, [...]
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.”
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 media outlet that they work [...]
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.
This could have been made as a commentary to that issue on the military presence.