Philippine Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law

The man who once said "Kayo ang boss ko" is the same man who signed the Reproductive Health Law last December 21, 2012.   Two years into his presidency, PNoy has made enemy with the institution that helped his mom get into Malacanang, the Catholic Church.

PNoy, do you think Boy Abunda will ever take you in as the poster boy for his Make Your Nanay Proud foundation? If your mom is alive today, what would she tell you? The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has lost big time against you and I don't really know how they'll recover from this.

Here is a copy of the law also known as Republic Act No. 10354:

RH Law

Blue Moon 2nd Time Around

We will have another blue moon for tonight and this will be the second time we will have it for the year. News of lunacy and suicides filled the neighborhood last night and it was one of my chess mates at the center of it all. As of the moment, he is fighting (if that's the right word) for his life at the intensive care unit of Our Lady of the Pillar Medical Center in Imus, Cavite.

Healing starts from within but sometimes we get the inspiration from nature.Please pray for everyone!

Now that the blue moon phenomenon has been demystified by science a long time ago, I'd like to share this YouTube video of Orange and Lemons:

Unrecognized Faith Healing

Western thinking produced Western Medicine. Oriental thinking believes in Oriental Medicine. Sadly, Western ideology has, since the time of Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan, imposed itself on the way Asians think.

Forward to today: Faith healing is unstandardized, unaccepted and actually rejected by the so-called medical professionals. We all know how rigid these thinkers can be when it comes to their faith in western medicine. Right?

But they are so quick to reject and are cynical when people claim they've been healed by the methods only Oriental Medicine can give. Well, it only shows that the two hemispheres are really in contrasting styles and traditions.

Can they explain the phenomenons articled on this site called Psychic-Faith Healing Articles?

HIV/AIDS in RP

HIV/AIDS information campaign in the Philippines is slowly gaining momentum with the help of the people affected by it. Do you remember our post about HIV/AIDS here last week? I checked a major news website now and was surprised they are running an article about the disease today.

In HIV patient warns vs internet sex sites, Wanggo Gallaga , the son of award winner film director Peque Gallaga, warns the public of casual sex:

"I hope that people learn from my story. If you cannot abstain, then you should protect yourself. Use condoms. You also have to choose who you have sex with. Having casual sex is really a risky business,"

I agree with one call center agent that it is the lifestyle and not the job that raises the chance of infection of HIV/AIDS and that the belief and moral standard should be upheld in one's life. Check out the video:

Because of these, the Philippine Government looks into the growing problem among yuppies and hopefully will plan out and implement a real, helpful Nationwide Health Safety System for all.

Check these videos to give you a better idea on the current status of HIV/AIDS in the country: HIV/AIDS Hotbeds and  Philippines lacks medics for HIV/AIDS Campaign.

Read more here.

Crazy Days

I was surprised to find an online news about HIV cases soaring among Filipino yuppies specially call center workers. Not that I'm surprised why it had to be the call center agents but rather it is getting air time now when it should have gotten it's publicity a long, long time ago.

Some years back, we had an Admin Manager here at work who moonlights with his own Building Management Agency. One time over a couple of shots (Tequila I miss yah!), he shared among us about this job order he had for toilet-sucking-ala-Malabanan-sucking in one call center company in Makati City.

Employees and building occupants were complaining of a clogged toilet drainage so they reported it and called our admin guy and his company for the job. It was another day's work but what came out of the suck tubes surprised his men: Condoms!

So it's not surprising to know that men and women from the call center agencies do it with their co-workers at the best time they see fit. They don't need privacy, in fact they love doing it in groups. Crazy, crazy days!

Doc Edsel Salvana warns us of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Philippines.

I was a child of the 80's and if you sum it right, I now belong to the middle aged population. I might even say to you that I grew up in a time when narcotics was taboo nor shabu in any family conversation. Movies and TV programs showed song and dance numbers, singing contests with Pilita Corales and Apeng Daldal but girls wearing God-Only-Knows-What dancing in the afternoon and lunchtime shows weren't allowed. And even if there were times these almost naked dancers show off, we were asked to look away or cover our eyes so we won't see.

Nowadays, it's crazy, crazy days!

People say it is a hidden but growing problem but this issue can easily be addressed with proper public information campaign which even a first grader can do. It will only be a problem if we allow it to become as such.

Even the people behind the solution (if there's any) are living in a crazy, crazy kind of life.

Another story that caught my atten tion and forced me to laugh out loud is about a Man caught at airport with 44 lizards. This German wasn't thinking at all, crazy, crazy kind of thinking!

I bet he was inspired by the story of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man famous for hiding explosives under his pants. Same style, same result! Crazy!

Life is so crazy without a rain, that's how I feel really!



Thank God it's Enya!