Trees Along LDS Temple

The Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cebu is now in operation for a year since opening to "patron" in June last year.One can be awed by the program they must have in maintaining the temple and the complex looking new and beautiful everyday.Every 6 months the temple is closed for maintenance activities-that explains everything. After a year of being a sight to behold along Lahug highway, however, one would notice that the landscape has changed as well. Gone are the age old fire tree, and the thick "kalachuchi" tree is getting a "skinhead" so to speak. What's in their mind,it is pretty much assumed that the aim was to make the temple more beautiful to look at.The thought that trees symbolizes life,strength and beauty,the sight of the temple without those tree and kalachuchi leaves simply awkward.Is it not that the beauty be enhance rather than a sudden attention getting landscaping move? Read more...

Garbage Disposal:No Segregation No Collection

A lot many local government units are adopting this action to avert an impending garbage calamity.We are at face with a problem of our own making. It does not take any common sense how we produce and make a little of too much in our way of life. It would take a shift in paradigm to have a better resolve within ourselves in dealing with this problem. Becoming an agent of change will be a good start as we approaches into the next era.Leaving it alone to the authorities is out of the question. What we do in our humble way, starting in ourselves, our family and actively promoting the proven strategy , just like the three R's (reduce,reuse,recycle)hopefully will snowball. Its now a reality , that environment is becoming central to our society. Ondoy just proved that. The current No segregation and No Collection may at the onset a pain and a stinky issue , but this is how we educate ourselves. We are seeing littered garbages in every corner, not picked up by the garbage truck, smoke arising from burned garbages.As always these are the birthpains and we will grow from this Read more...

Ampatuan Live Trial

These people don't get it. The witness or anybody in that room or their kins can be a potential target for liquidation by the opposing blood thirsty supporters of both camps.Giving a live trial would be a triumph not of free speech and justice but to those who will use it to expand their power by means of imposing fear. An edited rebroadcast would be a better alternative.Beside, making it into the living room real time, just like last impeachment of ERAP through television is pathetic and would surely be a rated R.Or worst, could be a circus of pretentious, camera conscious, boastful personality. Poor kins who will be at the mercy of the supporters who anxiously wait for their leaders to send coded signals..in case Read more...

China's Agressiveness

Philippines having the weakest armed forces in the region would be a good case for China's bullying with its neighbors.It would showcase its power and might to the world and who would dare to stand on China's path would be economically disadvantage- just look what happened to those who recognize Taiwan.China it seems wanting to be the standard of the world,even mocking the USA human rights history.This area is where the USA and China differs. Would you rather have China as a model for human rights, religious tolerance,quality than with the USA or other first world country? Philippines would be greatly at disadvantage should all those china made products will go in case this word war would spill to worst economically. Read more...

ARMM Election

So its final! there would be no election fot the aUTONOMOUS rEGION OF mUSLIM mINDANAO. Both contending parties have the wise of intentions of their claims to go and not to go with the election. But wait.. did you notice that these so called lawmakers who are for and againts it are not at all living in that area of concern, much less coming from Mindanao.It is so pathetic to think that again, Manila is at hand in Mindanao's affairs that meant so much to the the Muslim community and all Mindanaoans. Read more...

HighSchool plus 2 years

So what happens to the college teachers of the no incoming freshmen and no sophomore class when highschool starts to have 5th and 6th year students? Then the "void of enrolled students will climb until these first batch graduate.This could spell doom for small time schools. In a positive side this will also purge the ever increasing business of putting up schools for profit instead of learning.There could be an increase of teachers employment to cover the additional 2 years of high school. The opposite for the college,due to this 2 year vacuum. Well, there are now opposition organizing these move by the Education and it is hoped that it is by the spirit of improvement not by selfish motives. Read more...

"Tuko" Hunting

Folks are going crazy over this lizard thing!
A "rumor" is going around of a German doctor going to spend a fortune just to have a live unscathed "TUKO" (GECKO) Offering as much as 1Million peso for a 1/4 kl lizard
Can you imagine how that spread like a wildfire.Poor lizards! Mathematically deducing the size of that kind of lizard, one wonders how much then would it costs for a tablet of medicine for that matter. It was told that it would cure AIDS anD cANCER! Wow!what's next for this rumor and scam thing- people are buying and wait for this german doctor to show up for their money... Funny Read more...