Christmas inside...

by Ressan Nash N. Alonto

Christmas, a once-a-year celebration. A time where family and friends get together... shopping, frolicking, having the best holiday of there lives.

But on the other side of the world, there are those who are unable to celebrate Christmas because they afford to have a Christmas of their own. It feels so sad these days when you see them out of the cold. What would they eat? Where would they live?... HOW would they live?

Recently, while I was watching a replay of the CNN Hero of the Year awards, and I was felt inspired. For example, this retired pilot from Indonesia, he nurtured 48 orphans! WOW! I was amazed at that one. He makes sure that they get all the love that they need.

I now realized that Christmas is having everyone who loves and supports you, and you know that in some way... they'll be there for you.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Feeling electrocuted lately?

by Ressan Nash N. Alonto

Fact: 6 out of 10 teenage Filipinos are still unknown about what they feel inside... 

"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;  Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears..."  - Romeo (Act I, Scene I)

There are things we see in this world that are bit out of the ordinary. But one thing that you cannot understand... is yourself.

Love, a mysterious spectrum in coordination with 3 H's: heart, head, and hand... that's speculates us to know what we feel...But still, what difference when we would see the signs: 1) first meet; 2) closeness; 3) picture memory in the mind; 4) holding one's hands; 5) a pinch of fate; and others...

When you walk around campus and then you see a girl, your eyes suddenly freeze just looking at her, as if you can't move your head! Or if you want to talk, your voice suddenly becomes numb, like you can't talk a single word at all...

You would probably wonder in your dreams that how you long for this day that you will be there by her side, and hold her hand, while overlooking the sunset at the Meditteranean Sea... and you know that you're just daydreaming!

When you see her smile, that would probably give a warm feeling inside your heart. A face so angelic that it glows through the darkest night, and her sapphire eyes that hypnotizes you into a never-ending spell. And you know that you never want to wake up from it.

How you wish that it will never end... to see her eyes again... when you have to go through the heaviest battles just to be with her... and then, you pass away peacefully. Enough to see her mesmerizing beauty that make a thousand angels sing.

It's like you're in a living fantasy, like in the movie Casablanca, and say... "Here's looking at you, kid..."

As the saying goes... "Love is a mystery..."

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Romeo quote courtesy of:

http://clicknotes.com/romeo/T11.html

DevCom

by Felixes May T. Lopez

Development Communication for me is to promote social development. To communicate with the silent loners and with other people.It involves creating mechanisms to broaden public access to information on reforms; strengthening clients' ability to listen to their constituencies and negotiate with stakeholders; empowering grassroots organizations to achieve a more participatory process. I thought this course would be that boring. I never expected to be this interesting. People say Mass Communication is better, but I actually like the course also but because in my University didn't offer that kind of course, then I took up Development Communication. I have so many wrong perception about DevCom, my first semsester, I didn't even feel the excitement because I was really doubting if I did the right thing to take up this course but with my University's goal to help reach my dreams, I'm proud to say that I am DevCom.

Corruption

by Felixes May T. Lopez

When we hear the word Corruption, we actually think about the Political Corruption.

Political Corruption has been a fact of life of thousands of years. Almost all of these countries' political representatives were from the wealthier class, which inevitably led to a division between the influential have and the virtually powerless have-not. The seeds of political corruption were planted as soon as the senators and other political leaders realized that power and wealth could be equals. Political Corruption often begins with favoritism towards those with wealth and influence.

There are a few experienced politicians, however, for whom political corruption is a natural state of being.

Political corruption may always remain a concern for democratic governments, but there are a number of independent checks and balances that can root out corruption before it affects the integrity of the political body as a whole.

Social "injustice" in the Divine "wrong"...

by Ressan Nash N. Alonto


A superhero once said: "...There is evil afoot..." and that "evil" which this superhero said, is still around and wreaking not only in the open like in Maguindanao, but also in souls as dark as deep darkness, and as hurtful as hell...


Unless there is someone of pure heart who can stop this psycotic madness, the world and its current social condition will be in shreds...


Utilizing their evil side of their brain to become superior, these psychoes come about and beat the living crimony out of anyone defenseless... It just makes me sick to see a friend being kicked to the curb like an animal... It just makes me want to kill that person who my friend... but alas, my divine right doesn't want me to do it for I am a child of God, but don't if I am a child of peace...


Long story short: I am sick of the POP (people oppressing people) habit.!!! It really similarizes us to the other primates...


God forgive them for having hatred in them... for they are in the marathon choosing the path of good and evil...


For every problem afoot, surely there must be a hand to hold to tear it all away so all will be at rest...
Still hopeful...

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China's Human Rights Issue...

by Ressan Nash N. Alonto

According to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the people are guaranteed with freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to a fair trial, freedom of religion, universal suffrage, and property rights.

However, these "fundamental rights" of which their "constitution" states were not properly, or rather freely exercised in this "people's democratic dictatorship" because of their own style of blocking loopholes, such as the subversion of state power clause to imprison those who are critical of the government. Henceforth, those who criticize the Chinese government or the Communist Party will be subjected for "grave" punishment. So they put puppet news agencies only for show and as their "closet" for keeping their skeletons, like Xinhua, China's largest propanganda agency, and its national television network, China Central Television (CCTV), emphasis on central.



According to Reporters Without Borders, the PRC is one of the least free countries in the world for the press. In the Reporters Without Borders' Annual World Press Freedom Index of 2005, the PRC ranked 159 out of 167 places. Noted as a substancial proof of China's performance.

Next is the supremacy of the Han Chinese. According to Wikipedia, 91.6 % of the Chinese population are of Han ethnicity. Of all China's 50 ethnic tribes, the Han continues to progress its dominance over its minorities, by making enemies out of them.

The most insane attempt of China's human rights violations is its justice system. According to Amnesty International, China executes more people than other countries with death penalties combined. There are 68 crimes that are punishable by death, even some crimes that supposed to be punishable by prison sentences, like fraud and embezzlement. As punishment, the condemned are being sentenced to die by being shot in the head by an M16 rifle.

The execution of 8 Uygurs in the July 5, 2009 Xinjiang riots is a profound example of China's questionable justice. Such due process is being described as "unfair" and "hasty". There was also public humiliation of the condemned that became a great "scar" to their cultural identity. Their arms grappled by uniformed soldiers, wearing big placards their names crossed out in red as a sign of misdemeanor to those on deathrow. As a Muslim myself, I would consider these verdict as an insult to Islam, and as an insult to our right of expression.



Not only executed of crimes, but also political dissidents as well.

This is why our human rights should be preserved at all cost. We would not afford to let our freedom fall under the hands of tyrants with a desire of mass hysteria. In the Philippines, Human rights are a major priority in our society, but currently in risk because of recent extra-judicial killings. Freedom is vital, and should always be preserved for a brighter tomorrow.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

sources:
http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=34630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China#Human_rights
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/hasty-executions-china-highlight-unfair-xinjiang-trials-20091110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_punishable_by_death_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China