The Boracaynon

By Gil delos Santos Korina Sanchez made this spot popular adding unknown story to locals that it grants wishes.  Names of specific spots in Boracay, except for newly developed private sites, were given by our old Boracaynon elders which we now see as part of the island's history and identity. If we don't want Boracay to be called Bora (because Boracay is not Bora naman talaga), why we popularize Lapus-lapus as Boracay Keyhole now?  There is no official document recognizing Lapus-lapus as now "Boracay Keyhole". Lapus-lapus means "tagusan" in Tagalog or "pass through" in English. Isn't that a beautiful story how our elders name it to? Please let us not outcast our island ancestors by renaming it. That is a public properly. Private companies cannot rename it for marketing purposes.  Giving it a new name is like disconnecting our elders' affinity to Lapus-lapus while the current generation's pride is being shaved off slowly. The...

By Gil delos Santos Hanging around the couch to watch TV is not a usual occurrence how my weekends are spent. I should have been somewhere else hiking and camping. But for a couple of reasons I needed to stay home, it did happen today. I've Feasted with youtube videos until coming across with talent show auditions having obnoxious contestants who cannot take the judges' critique and cannot shut their mouth in defense which security needed to come into the scene to intervene and remove them from the stage. We sometimes get annoyed and get angry when people get too self-defensive and rude up to becoming aggressive in trying to make a point to insist for what they believe is right. It reminds me of some people but I cannot remove them from their temporal spot like how the show owners can. Di ako dapat pa apicto lol. This Agitated people do not have awareness anymore with the boundaries of decency, reality, and rationale when summoned by triggering situations. They look...