Tragedy

Sometimes tragedies are born
At the beginning of relationships
When emotional baggage past remain unresolved
And crops out in the simplest of circumstances
Of unprovoked acts
Of honest perspectives
Of ordinary discourse
Only time will tell, only time knows
When relationships on shaky grounds
Collapses under the weight of insecurities and envy
Tragedy indeed
But tragedy is to let go too
Of dearly loved works and causes
For greater, greater harmony
In one peace of heart
And for life in fact
To move on with peace.

Radio Interview Today

As a member of LENTE (Legal Network for Truthful Elections), we will be involved today in a radio advocacy program in which we will be interviewed by a local radio company about our organizations advocacy.

The May 2013 Philippine local elections is close at hand and LENTE, a non-profit citizen's organizations whose main thrust is to educate the Filipino voter about their rights as voters, the need for an honest and transparent elections and the avenues to ensure such rights are safeguarded and protected.

The members of LENTE-DVOREF chapter of Tacloban City will be on the airwaves today from 8am to 10am at Radio Diwa.

When Sleep is Rest

To rise in the morning
To a cool summer sky
With a night of sleep restful and peaceful
Is a day truly a day
Nothing makes a day
Than a night of good sleep
And working for a day
More meaningful and significant
Good Morning indeed is today!

A Drop in the Ocean of Eternity

To have meet you
Is the greatest thing that ever happened to me
And the best feeling one can get
Your presence makes me realize
That life is beauty, mystery, peace, wisdom
In the pebble of the beach
You are the diamond of eternal pulchritude
In the ocean of eternity
You have made me a drop worth the world
To touch you is to touch forever now.

Dawkin's Pegged as World's Preeminent Intellectual

Prospect magazine recently released its 2013 Public Intellectual of the Year and Richard Dawkins, the famous British author, lecturer and of course atheist, topped the list as the world's most influential public intellectual. The poll was actually not world encompassing, with the 65-names listed basically chosen by a US and UK based expert panel.

Nevertheless, such news is welcome news and shows the issues which Dawkins has been fighting on for the better part of the last 20 years or so being spread, acknowledged and brought into the public sphere. The need for a secular-based, science-influenced and reason-oriented worldview is now more than ever not only a serious need but virtually a necessity. The religion inspired and violence dictated paradigm that have more or less held the overriding influence, at most times subtle but no less violent, in the 19th and 20th century worldview must be replaced by a science and reason based perspective. A perspective we now call secular humanism.

The fight continues on for secular humanists around the world to show by incontrovertible science and reason that the more superior, more logical, more humane alternative to approaching the most pressing issues of our time is no longer religion, but only science and reason. From global warming to pollution, from deforestation to mining, from interstellar mysteries to earthly conundrums, only science and only reason provides a better, more superior, more democratic, more egalitarian, more encompassing, more fulfilling alternative than the rigid, archaic, misogynistic, genocidal, homophobic, dehumanizing dogma of religion which is none the worst incarnated than in the Abrahamic faiths.

Ode to the Beer

Sparkling yellow
When warm and fuzzy so bitter
But when cold and icy so sweet
Companions in distress and ecstasy
A temple unto itself
Where youthful memories are born
And friendships sealed and strengthened
Tables joyful and alive
When beer is at the center
Nights alive and awake
Days sleepy and dead
Ohh beer you're the culprit.

Food Trip Tonight

What a night!
Of sumptuous meal on a classy resto
Seafoods and the like, my favorite sarad
And grilled meat with crunchy calamares
Followed by a fine coffee capuccino
With gritty yet deliciously delicate dessert
Of fancy name I could not even remember hehe
Finally topped with a bottle of apple flavored
San Miguel beer beside a bar on the sea
With a breezy relaxing Tacloban night wind
Shared with a good friend indeed.
What a night!