Reflected thoughts about life and death, and in between

1. And as you enter the realm of the public, it demands that each one should live a moral life. It is in the realm of the public that one fully realizes who one is. The private realm is merely a rehearsal.

2. The private realm is one that the problematique because it is in this engagement that you are alone to yourself, a fact that you can't escape.

3. When you write "Ah", that may mean a hundred different interpretations.

4. When one posts his/her private thoughts at facebook, remember that thought was transformed into the public sphere. Your thoughts can be analyzed, decoded, interpreted and re-interpreted. The private magically becomes public.

5. Typhoon Ondoy is an interruption to our daily grind particularly in Metro Manila. It forced us to do things that we usually do not do. Then we discover something that we were capable of. Such discovery is an exercise of who we are as a nation. This s...hapes our collective self at a particular juncture of history.

6. Nature has no word if this is a tragedy or not, it simply dumps water that you have not imagined in your life.

7. Sometimes it is harder to believe that everything happens for no reason at all!

8. "More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!" - Tony Robbins. This is your time to respond to the disaster brought about by typhoon Ondoy. Go to your nearest volunteer recruitment center.

9. to Jim Paredes: "That is ok to have a break for being a Filipino. Our identities are shaped by culture. Cultures are inherently tentative. Our identities are defining moments, sometimes also a burden. As we are inserted into a historically conditioned society the malleability of identity is always achieved."

10. Our reflections about the recent national event should unite us even more in over coming the barriers that was brought by a typhoon. We now see barriers that prevents others from becoming human. There is a need to act to help other people.

11. There are around 200-dead people due to the effect of the typhoon. For sure if we are a prepared nation given this kind of natural-human disaster, the deaths could have been lessened.

12. Individually we will have to reflect on the events that is presently unfolding right now. As a collective community we will have to come to terms with a nation strategically located in a typhoon belt.

13. One plastic box full of wet clothing have been drained.

14. We will be mourning those who perished from this tragedy and we will be celebrating the birth of those being born with no memory of this event.

15. Still, this event raises the question, "As a people, how are we organized to confront a similar problem in the future?"

16. Even my granddaughter who is barely equipped with our language is trying to tell her story of how flood waters is going inside the house. She is 3-years old.

17. I guess will have to keep the learning and the bad memories go away with the receding flood waters. Typhoon Ondoy is a terror, terrible teacher.

18. Since this historical floods came rushing in we have to change our ways of thinking on how to cope when the next flood will come along.

19. Flood waters came inside our house last Saturday. We have been living here for the past 19-years. This is the first time flood came into our house. Books, magazines, documents came out wet. Some books have to be discarded. Around 80 kilos of magazin...es that I am selling as collectors items over the net have to go. An Italian painting magazine of 1960 got wet and turned into soggy shreds.

20. "Before I die, I want to make a movie that shows people over 70 having hot erotic relationship. I'd have to write the script myself." Jane Fonda on being 70.

21. When you age, you don't have to be perfect.

22. Governments given their power at their disposal cannot abolish religion. At best they have to cooperate with it.

23. Our shared experiences can be blocked by our failure or incapacity to communicate.

24. Silence possess a power that we grope for something tangible that the mind wants to produce, so that a stalled conversation can pick-up and continue its mandatory journey.

25. When we meet again people who are related to us and that means you are physically both far from each other, you want to overcome the silence that touches you in between your conversations. There is an attitude that wanting to search for a topic, an object of conversation to connect and to keep on conversing because a pause, a silence can be a felt pain.