I Am Buraot

I broke my pinky today. I was eating my favorite dish earlier when I heard a very cute little crack. I thought it was just some accidental discharge of unnecessary but very little emission that was part of my personal contribution to the earth’s greenhouse gases,  so I just shrugged it off. After a few [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have traveled the Great Plains… With endless corn fields and cascading hills of greens. I saw the crops sway back and forth with the invisible afternoon breeze. I could see more cows than people. But the people are friendlier and very eager to see another soul. The skies are always clear, free of polluted [...]

On my middle aged quest to find meaning, I turned to astronomy. The heavenly blue skies ended where the emptiness of space started. There lies my physical limitations and began jump-starting my imaginations. Where will we be in the near future? Can we travel to distant galaxies and still find meaning? I didn’t find meaning [...]

During the entire course of my life I have faced the most formidable things there can be: choices. I have had to face it, not once, not twice, but so many times I could hardly remember. Why do we have to choose? Why do we have to ponder deeply, and waste so much time, effort [...]

I tried to rearrange things. My fragmented thoughts, unsettled mind, unbalanced life. I still am trying to pick up the pieces. Shattered dreams, hopelessness, and the battle with pessimism. Honestly, I do not know where to start… Life itself is overrated. Hyped up and glorified like a wonder drug you often see on commercials. Death [...]