Refocusing Perspectives

Slide doors are like gateway to a mini-forest view which hide the entire resort's quietude against the noise of city life. View from the porch showed another sliding door connecting the veranda to a bedroom concealed by thick layers of curtains to dissociate temporal residents from external verdant panorama. Comfort and shower room are furnished well of toiletry except for toothbrush which you need to request/buy from the concierge. Outside, the homey cottage is a perspective of combined modern and traditional structure fitted to natural forest landscape. Here, crickets thrived and sang its hymn in choral at night oblivious of the contradiction of issues Filipinos are madly affronted of.  How relevant is this to a restless life? Its significant for those sensitive to insects' existence. Some natives said that crickets thrive in cool or temperate quiet places that will resonate their safety. Their silence means its diapause or their adverse expression t

T he new administration draw its political campaign espousing federalism as an alternative to republican, unitary and presidential system of government. Critics of the current form of government contended that restructuring the bureaucracy is necessary alleging that the present system is antiquated and the distribution of wealth is disproportionately favorable only to Manila. Other Mindanaoan legislators backed the campaign eyeing federalism as suitable for multicultural, diverse peoples and as remedy to protracted insurgency. This brings serious question whether or not federalism is indeed the correct cure to the problems besetting this country? The latter question presuppose a major inquiry—what really is the problem of the Philippines? Is federalism, as an alternative, compatible to the Bangsamoro quest for right to self-determination in accordance to the Comprehensive Agreement of the Bangsamoro? Are the regional constituents politically mature enough amid co