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This is the biggest irony, and the one I am—we are—most angry about. Why are we allowing these people to taint the festivities with their ass-kissing when they couldn’t even care less about the Lumad struggle? This administration does not care about the Lumads. How many times has the President said he will bomb Lumad schools, I have lost count. Too much Lumad blood has been shed.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 1 February) – Sir, the guy I used to date in high school became an orphan at age 9 because his parents, journalists like YOU were, got shot in broad daylight by unidentified riding-in-tandem assailants. They
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 28 October) — Even after heartily cheering for our candidates with the rest of my college (College of Arts and Social Sciences) on Saturday evening (October 27), the primacy we place on pageants and the dynamics
Paminahawa Ridge in Barangay Impalutao in Impasugong, Bukidnon is becoming a popular trekking and camping destination for locals and visitors from other towns of the province and neighboring areas. Photo taken on 26 May 2018. MindaNews photo by ALEXANDRIA M.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 18 May) – My sister Anthea had been my roommate since I started college. That is, until she passed the chemist licensure exams and moved out to “make her way into the real world” or as I
On New Year’s Day, 1 January 2018, this vendor in Malaybalay City continues to sell gift bags and other Christmas items. MindaNews photo by ALEXANDRIA M. [] MORDENO
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/21 September) — These days the prospect of waking up to a declaration of a nationwide implementation of Martial Law has become more probable. I fear the day that actually happens because it’s going to affect both the future
Mubarak Macabanding Paingco, a native of Pantao Ragat in Lanao del Norte who grew up in Iligan City, addresses his fellow graduates during the pre-commencement program of the College of Science and Mathematics, College of Nursing and School of Graduate
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/21 December) — It started when you asked for book recommendations. I found out that you don’t like Marie Lu because “she’s like a rip-off of Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth” and Paulo Coelho because “his books seem
Alexandria M. Mordeno, 12/07/2016 But you didn’t stay long enough For my Karl Marx and Socialism. How I still dream of a classless Utopian society Where everyone gets equal opportunities, Even though I know this is practically impossible Given our
i shall keep silent, watching how your body withers; remain serene as one by one your castles fall, because i know that only you can fix your fissures and if you can’t then there’s no cure for you at all
I know what you did. You can hide behind all that silver and gold, But I can see the ugly and rotten black behind All that made up beauty. I know what you did. You promised to make me happy, That with you I’ll never be lonely. I really thought you were the one, you know? I mean, it wasn’t that hard. I had always been easily attracted To brilliant minds, And boy, were you brilliant. How you made love to my brain. But the brain is a deceitful friend. Had I looked into your heart, I would have seen that you didn’t have one. I would have seen that inside you was A black hole that sucked everything good. Inside you was a Pandora’s box that released All evil out into the world. A man with his words And his nonexistent heart. A harbinger of pain and suffering. His brilliant mind disguised his dark insides. You have cheated me once. And now you’ve come back To cheat on me again. Now you’ve come back To revive the heartbreak You once gave me, As if the first time wasn’t hard enough. But like the last time, I will fight back. I will take back what is rightfully mine; Until I lose my breath; Until the last tooth and nail fall out. That day will come. Eventually. Until I no longer have to shed tears of pain, But of joy.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/21 October) — Motherhood is not, and will never be, obligatory. What’s so bad with wanting to be a career woman? With pursuing other goals? Every time I tell people I don’t really plan to get married and
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 August) – It was my last day in Malaybalay before leaving for Iligan City. Finally. And I wouldn’t be travelling alone, after all, which was both a disappointment and a relief. Father was going with me to
A girl enjoys her role as drummer during a band performance on Friday (May 22) at the Bukidnon State University gymnasium in Malaybalay City. The activity capped the annual Summer Camp Rock, a month-long free training in vocals and musical
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 April) — Depression comes in many ways. It’s not always cutting your wrists until you’re drowning in your own blood or overdosing in pills because you can’t find any reason to live anymore. Sometimes depression is wearing
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/23 April) – Humanity has made countless great feats and it seems like we have achieved so much, but ultimately, we have only explored less than five percent of the Earth’s oceans and zero percent of the universe.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/ 19 January) — The best part of our recollection as fourth year students was not our awesome shirts, the impressive speaker who made us laugh all the time nor the really nice movie they made us watch.
Two children blow paper trumpets on New Year’s Eve in Malaybalay City. Authorities have called on the public to welcome the New Year without firecrackers to avoid injuries during the revelry.[]/a> with ||| MindaNews photo by Alexandria M. Mordeno
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 December) — At about 7:10 pm on December 9, news about the bus bombing in Central Mindanao University was broadcast on GMA. That got my attention but I just brushed it off and continued doing my project
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 November) — I don’t know how it feels to have a hangover from drinking too much alcohol, but it must really suck. I have had countless hangovers from reading books though, and I am having one right
Faculty members at Bukidnon National High School in Malaybalay City dance the tinikling with a twist by donning present-day costumes during the World Teachers Day celebration on Friday, 03 October 2014. MindaNews photo by Alexandria M. Mordeno
Two students of Bukidnon National High School in Malaybalay City join the Mindanao-wide tree planting on Sept. 26 dubbed Treevolution. The event aims to enter the Guinness World Records for the most number of trees planted in one hour. MindaNews
After weeks of rain, residents of Malaybalay City wake up to a beautiful sunrise on Sept. 15. MindaNews photo by Alexandria M. Mordeno
Time and again they have been driven away from the sidewalks of Malaybalay City. But vendors like this woman keep coming back to earn a little income for their families. MindaNews photo by Alexandria M. Mordeno
A soldier takes time out from camp duties to join the Brigada Eskwela at Bukidnon National High School in Malaybalay City, 19 May 2014. in Brigada Eskwela aims to prepare schools for the start of classes next month. MindaNews photo
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 21 April) – I will never fully get the hang of it. As I sit inside our toilet, staring at the copy of Desiderata my mother hung on the wall, pooping, I sometimes think about the
(Content warning: It’s just me ranting and this will be extremely biased. I most likely won’t receive soon any hate or whatever because I am not Tumblr famous, and this won’t probably receive any notes and/or no one would even
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/07 March) — Dawn was a mystical time of day for, as the sun rose above the perfect line of the horizon, light breathed life into the world. The lost traces of day finally came back together, united,
Arts curriculum students of Bukidnon National High School in Malaybalay City perform a musical number Thursday (27 February 2014) in celebration of the National Arts Month. MindaNews photo by Alexandria M. Mordeno
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/02 February) — Writing is not easy. Others think it’s just putting words together to form coherent sentences, but it’s more than that. Some people take what they read for granted without knowing its “behind the scenes.” I’m
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 Jan) — I have been asked quite a number of times to describe myself in one word – and I’m sure others have been asked too– and I never really had an answer for it. I would
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 30 January) – I find it sad and disturbing that even children, especially girls, as young as seven, maybe nine, feel insecure about the way they look. I don’t remember giving a damn about how I
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 4 December) – This is for the ones who are having a hard time. Don’t worry, you’ll make it. Nothing worth having comes easy. Life is tough, but so are you. Just hang in there. You
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 July)–As of April 2013, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden and some parts of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States have allowed same sex couples to marry. In the Philippines and
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — Look at the world around you right now. It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Now look again and try to imagine what it would be like if it is filled with people who don’t understand what the
