On November 8, 2013, Super Typhoon Yolanda, also known as Haiyan internationally, one of the strongest recorded cyclones made landfall in the Philippines. This typhoon affected millions of people in the country, most especially those in Samar and Leyte. It has incurred a huge number of deaths, injuries and displacement. More than the casualties, the structures damaged by the typhoon have the ways and means people lived – many were left jobless, hungry, educational institutions were destructed, and the others did not receive proper medical attention.

This typhoon shocked the whole world and many sympathized with the Filipinos. Some people have donated relief goods and cash for the immediate rehabilitation of the areas affected. Many politicians, celebrities, and popular icons across the globe have also grabbed the opportunity to broadcast their helping hearts.

Moreover, with the boom of...

Let us start throwing up some darts rather than just stare at the bull’s eye to hit the dart board.

‘God’ for me is something that can only be perceived through words. God is only a word.

‘God’ is used as a term to describe what is impossible of us, but we are seeking to do, to be, or to have; but we always acknowledge it as impossible. God is the term used when we describe the opposite of what we think is bad about us. God is the perfect “I”.

‘God’ is a word that people blame or praise when we experience what is unexpected or what we know is impossible; but it happened through our own actions (simply!), but we don’t acknowledge it instead.

God exists. As long as it is the ‘God’ I have just described – the God that only runs through man’s mind. ‘God’ is never powerful, but we make him be. Man is powerful. It is man that created ‘God’ not God that created man, for it is the man who...

Health is wealth.

Indeed it is. Health has now become a massive source of wealth for the drug manufacturers, health institutions owners and those propagandists who suck up all the money of a poor little consumer who surrenders and secures his life and well-being to them.

From a usual Filipino setting: a family of five – three children, a wife who does all the household chores and a husband who works 8 hours daily earning a minimum wage, health is the most important tool to perform everyday tasks at home, in school, or in the workplace.

Thus, here arise the different TV ads, posters, tangible and intangible classifieds that tout drugs, equipments, and health providers that are said to supply the complete nutrients needed for us to achieve our tasks. Even my parents are a fan of those, I admit. These advertisements grow in our ways of thinking. Everything in its ads invites us to...