28TH

I celebrated my 28th birthday with my family and friends last March 30, Tuesday. I am really excited to turn a year older. I have so many plans for this year. I strongly believe that this will be my banner year. Let me start first by enrolling for my Project study for summer in UE. I think that if I will take this small step, everything will fall into its' proper place. I honestly feel good being 28 because I know more about myself and I have goals which are just within my grasps. I have less worries and insecurities, I have inner peace and I glow because I am happy. Of course I am still a work in progress but I already know my path and I am walking through it now with a knowing smile, confident stride and my head up high.

Mob (should not) Rule

I was gravely disappointed in the recent action protest that was held in my Alma matter, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Students who were livid because of the planned tuition fee hike sent several tables and armchairs flying out from the building crashing down into the cement floor.

Protest rallies are part of the campus life of PUPians. They always take their stance in the any political, social or economic issues in the country. They bravely opposed corruption and injustice. They flooded the street to voice their opinions. They actively joined movements that aimed to achieve change towards a better society. PUP created a breed a generation of youth, who are outspoken guardians of truth and justice.

But what I saw on TV was nothing but an irrational, angry, violent mob. Important concern such as a tuition fee increase should be discussed in a democratic, organized dialogue. As university students, they should have learned something about a systematic and proper way of protest. Nothing will be resolved if emotion rather than logic will rule. Our country will not progress if issues will be taken in the street and mob will prevail.

Not Your Ordinary Girl

Lani Laolao is dead.

I don’t remotely feel sad because this death gives way to the birth of another side of her. She is a bachelorette no more; she is now Lani Laolao-Ordinario.

We had been good friends since college. We studied together until we earned our diplomas. Lani had been the studious and serious one. She breezed her way throughout college. But she also knows how to have fun. We travelled, had our little misadventures and discovered what the real world is together. It is often a punch line in our group how slow she is when it comes to comprehending some jokes, but she is also as strong as steel as she is also a taek won do black belter.

I think that she will have a successful family life because she has a strong faith in God. She encountered a lot of trials already but she overcame that and became even stronger. Since God will be the center of her new life with her husband and future family, for sure it will be a happy and exciting one.