I Am Buraot

Ganito pala sa Olongapo, parang war zone. This was the surprised remark from one of the media personnel from GMA-7 who witnessed what happened that fateful day in November 1996.
All the action were going on inside the SBMA where the APEC forum was being held, so it only makes sense for all the media, [...]

In just a matter of minutes, after that quick anesthesia-less operation and humiliation inside the operating room, I was in a wheelchair being pushed by that UP volunteer all the way to the x-ray room and unto my assigned room, which was the orthopedic ward.
Weird. I don’t think I had any broken bone or whatever [...]

It was November 1996. The APEC Summit was being held in Subic Bay, Philippines.
It was a time for the country to show off its newly established Subic Bay after the former bases were left by the Americans under piles of ashes brought by the Pinatubo eruption. It was also the time for then President Fidel [...]

Since there are lots of places I have lived my entire life, I naturally have a lot of friends. Friends that over the years have remained my buddies, my brother, my sister. I am so lucky to have found them, and I thank them all.
I am not trying to be optimistic here about friendship. In [...]

This year comes as a new dawn, the beginning not just of a new year, but of a new life. But as always, not without the remnants of the baggage past.
This time last year I was in and out of the hospital. Teams of doctors were trying to figure out what is that thing that [...]

Some conspiracy theorists had it coming.
They theorized that the Maguindanao Massacre might be a ploy to justify the issuance of a declaration of Martial Law. Besides, they say, the alleged culprits, the Ampatuans, are known to be supporters of the Arroyo administration.
Far-fetched at it may seem to be, I remember the same argument of post [...]

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