Thanks, YUGA!

I’m baaaack!

And I credit the Yoda of Blogs, Yuga, for this digital reincarnation.

So much has happened since my last post. So many people have died or disappeared since then.

I share in the prayers for Jonah Burgos – may he be found soon, alive even if a little shaken and hurt.

I share in the outrage over a Comelec division’s decision to unseat Magsaysay Awardee and Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo as a mayoral candidate due to a citizenship issue. Jesse bestowed honor to the country as a Ramon Magsaysay Awardee. He has represented the Philippines in prestigious international fora. He was my classmate at the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University where he wowed the teachers and our fellow students with his well-engineered mind. And now they are saying that this inspirational Filipino is an alien? Didn’t the Comelec en banc declare him as a natural born citizen in a resolution dated August 5, 2003?

I share in the disgust over how the party-list system is being bastardized. How those already in power see it as a vehicle to aggrandize more power, more money, more prominence – all in the name of the marginalized sector they have not even considered helping before.

So yes, I’m happy to be back, blogging on a rant, ranting as I blog.

Thanks, Yuga!