Moral and Intellectual Posers

http://voxvillasenor.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/beware-of-the-false-prophet/
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. -Matthew 7:15
Today, in the university, we are filled with people, men and women alike, who pose themselves as the source of the truth; as the deliverer of the good news. We have trusted them in many ways; [...]

Condemning a Culture of Corruption

“the best way to defeat the work of the devil is to expose it–to bring it into the light.”
 
(PRE-TEXT: I write this in strong condemnation of how some of university officials have handled my complaints against the dean and the college secretary, and how they have been harassing me over something that started with a [...]

The Ills May Have Started Somewhere.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I write this with all the courage that’s left of me, exhausted by a semester of challenges and hurdles, and a summer that will not be spent on beaches, nor in a classroom, but facing a panel, fighting for my university academic status.

Our society is not filled with social problems; poverty, corruption, inaccountability, [...]

Regrets.

I do not usually regret things that happen to my life, inspired by the quote that “problems are opportunities in unattractive packages”. But there really are some things you will deeply regret.
As for me, one of those is going back to UST. Post-debarment, I would have wanted to study elsewhere, but my mother wanted me [...]

The Jun and I

Thomas Aquinas, a great theologian, doctor of the church, and advocate of the truth. The patron of the great university who produced Rizal, Quezon, Macapagal, Mabini, and a long line of national formidable people in various affairs and strata of society. If you hear those names, it makes you proud to be Thomasian.
But in today’s [...]

Of Monarchs and False Kingdoms

Someone actually called me “misguided and disillusioned” for the quote “Watch out, Thomasians, the race to Tan Yan Kee is on!”, a remark I have made in one of my blog entries here at wordpress. If it was a student who said this remark, it would have brought comic relief to me, but since it [...]