Notes from a Simulated Underground
Archive for June 2010
2 comments • Marocharim • June 30, 2010
Ito ang kahalagahan ng ating demokrasya. Ito ang pundasyon ng ating pagkakaisa. Nangampanya tayo para sa pagbabago. Dahil dito taas-noo muli ang Pilipino. Tayong lahat ay kabilang sa isang bansa kung saan maaari nang mangarap muli. – Inaugural Address, President Benigno Aquino III I woke up to the tune of a new President today. Noynoy [...]
1 comment • Marocharim • June 28, 2010
* – In response to Out-of-Date by IWriteAsIWrite. Thanks to The Greatest for pointing this out. The beauty of the Web is exchange; that there is no need for name-calling or caustic responses. While the author may have misspelled my thinly-disguised pseudonym, I’d like to say that I stand corrected on the many flaws he [...]
1 comment • Marocharim • June 28, 2010
I believe that children should use big words early in life. They must be taught to be highfalutin, for them to be able to grasp the complexity of the English language. Simplicity invalidates the wealth of terminologies within the paradigmatic pool, forcing us to make syntagmatic constructions that invariably result in the misconstruction of what [...]
4 comments • Marocharim • June 26, 2010
When I was in grade school, my Sibika teachers taught me that very familiar lesson on the “Filipino race” on United Nations Week. I was the palest kid in class, so I wore the suit and tie and represented the United States. The darkest kid in class represented some African country, and there was always [...]
2 comments • Marocharim • June 20, 2010
During family reunions, my relatives always mention how much I look like my father. I inherited just about every attribute of Father except for skin color: the same thick eyebrows, the same dark brown eyes, the same deep voice. For all intents and purposes, I was my dad’s junior, his younger doppelganger, Daddy’s little boy. [...]
There are things I'm afraid to tell myself. Instead, I choose to reveal them the world. In sickness, in spite, in all unpleasantness, even in disease. I'm a babbler, a ranter, a writer: neither spiteful nor kind, neither rascal or honorable man. Neither hero or vermin.
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