Differently presentable

Here’s a unique and fashionable way of reminding people of an inevitable reality.

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Lives shaken: a reflection on the Haitian quake

Any disaster could come unexpectedly. At times, it’s with an intensity and scale no one ever imagined, especially if it hits right at the start of the year. Nature once again has made it to the spotlight. This time, as 2010 opens, it shook the scene with a catastropic event in the form of a 7.0-magnitude [...]

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2009′s darkest: a memory unburied

If moving on is about thinking ahead of what’s coming, then a part of me stlll isn’t.     One of the events that left my thoughts still clinging to 2009 is the most heinous of crimes ever done to 57 innocent people in Maguindanao, Philippines on the 23rd of November. Their gruesome massacre defies anything I [...]

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What Typhoon Ondoy Truly Left Behind

Typhoon Ondoy (international name Ketsana) has left the Philippines. But it left behind memories of unequaled proportion. Death abounds almost every place where the floods it caused hit. Many properties are destroyed. Myriads of others are left homeless. Others were left helplessly stranded in monstrous traffic.

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Where do we start?

Have we ever asked ourselves at one time or another where we are now in our life? Has everything been in the right place at the right time in the different aspects of our life? These questions might have showed up several or perhaps many times, probably during our lowest of times when we had [...]

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