Ma-umol atong batang huna-huna sa atong mga gipang-basa pero kung sayop atong gibasa ma-umol sa sayop atong kasinatian sa mga isyu nga may kalabut sa atong kagahapon ug sa atong ugma.

I’m a martial law baby, during those formative years, bisan pag dili isulti sa akong mama ug papa kung unsay nahitabo sa gawas. makita nako sa ilang nawng ang ilang kahadlok sa mga tao ni Marcos ug sa ilang kasagmuyo sa pang-gobyerno ni Macoy.

I was 12 years old during the people power I, the blessed sisters of STC-Cebu inculcate in our minds the martyrdom of Ninoy, Fr. Romano, Escalante Massacre and the desaparacedos.

The seeds they planted, made me an easy lure to the ‘hot-issues’ surrounding USC’s campus politics, STAND Party was my choice. It was an extension of the Marcos vs Ninoy. The hottest issue then was ‘tuition fee increase’, this was the time of Totol Batuhan, Turo Catarata and yes Bisoy Enoveso, formerly of the Shiela and the Insects. ( i respect their politics now)

Hangyo lang sa tanang nakalimut. The tyranny of Marcos was real. Just like Auschwitz and those gas chambers.

God bless the souls of those who forgot.

Soy, salamat sa lugar.

but in highschool, while doing a research paper that was supposedly anti-tyranny, i came to know and like (really,really like) ferdinand edralin marcos.

perhaps, it has something to do with my affinity for the wronged.

like how the whole world mocks me for being pro-erap. like how infamous my support to the rebellion of trillanes and querubin has become.

like how i ironically wept for the death of khadafi janjalani.

we all have our heroes, and sometimes, we really can’t articulate why we like or don’t like them.

Marcos knew that religious Filipinos are cowards. That Filipinos can be intimidated, corrupt and use religion to subjugate us

Nakaingon gyd ko na way hadlok si ninoy.