I Am Buraot

I got a call from a former comrade, they are now converging on the streets of the EDSA, waiting for the imminent yet another uprising to unfold. I was inside the former US base where I currently hold my office. It was another period of turmoil and political uncertainty. Then Philippine President Erap Estrada is [...]

Do you see the whole picture, or read between the lines? Can you discern the pattern of words and thoughts formation that leads you to a certain pre-destined conclusion? Are they just written syllables to fill your wandering mind? Or a well orchestrated move to stab your back and rob you blind? Storytellers are full [...]

As like the rest of millions of Filipinos outside the country, I was keenly awaiting news updates on the Maguindanao Massacre, on the Presidential Proclamation 1959 declaring Martial Law  in Maguindanao the ongoing debates in the joint session of congress. They were supposed to revoke it, approve  or extend it. Share and Enjoy:

Photo Credits here. There was a time when men were men, bound not by rules but mutual respect. A respect that one need not earn but modestly given by virtue of simply being men. Contracts are not made by voluminous set of recycled trees but by a few pristine words. In the wars of the [...]

Conclusion (Previously… Skirmishes In and Out of Sea) Yes, I was pissed with his article. But I don’t blame Chip Tsao. He who loves to write satire, though his love of it that does not guarantee that he’s good at it, just wanted to make a point. The way I understood, as I try to [...]

Third Part of a Series (Previously… The Crude Awakening) The group of islands called the Spratlys was first occupied by the colonial French at the time when it ruled Indochina. During the Second World War, the Japanese used it as a submarine base. After the world war, the French had it back but eventually had [...]

Second Part of a Series (Previously… Arrogance and Ignorance on the Spratlys Islands) At least 6 countries, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, have filed separate sovereign claims on all or part of the Spratlys. For years, the Philippines and the other small ASEAN member countries claiming the group of small Islands in the [...]