A young Iraqi who recently joined the Filipino Youth for Peace e-group sent this e-mail to the list:

Dear friends …..

first of all I want to thank the moderator of this group for letting me to be with you guys .

My name is REEM I’M 18 years old i live in Baghdad and I will join the comoputer science collge at november. life in baghdad is just like hell, it’s a mirical how we still alive. Many explotions in everywhere we can’t go out after 8 or 9 o’clock at night it’s dangerouse and we have been like this for 3 years and we get sick of that situation .life here is misrrible so hope u will support me and bring hope back to me ..

YOUR FRIEND FORM BAGHDAD …..

NOTE: SORRY my spelling is s0o0o bad but i hope u’ll understand me .

This is what the US war–supported by the Philippine president–has brought to the people of Iraq. Read again, and tell us if the war is justified.

Hindi ako masyadong natutuwa, pero totoo pala ang balitang ang susunod na Treo ay Windows na ang operating system.

Palm has licensed the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system for an expanded line of Treo(TM) smartphones, the first of which will be available on Verizon Wireless’ national wireless broadband network. The news was revealed in a press conference with Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm, Inc.; Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp.; and Denny Strigl, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless.

(Palm)

Article 3, Section 4 of the 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines

No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for redress of grievances.

Source: Gov.ph, Official Portal of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines

Wala lang. Baka lang nakakalimutan ng iba. Matanggal kaya ang probisyong ito kapag natuloy ang Cha-cha ng p***** ina ng bayan?

Ang kolum ko sa Peyups.com ngayon:

Noong gabi ng Miyerkoles, Setyembre 21, pagkatapos ng piging pasasalamat ng aming departamento, dumalaw kami sa burol ni Atty. Haydee Yorac sa Balay Kalinaw sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas.

Sa labas ng balay ay nakahilera ang maraming mga bulaklak para sa namayapa. Sa loob ay nagtitipon naman ang mga kaanak at kaibigan ni Atty. Yorac, kabilang ang mga aktibista at ilang opisyal ng pamahalaan. Ang kanyang mga labi ay nakatanghal sa dulo ng silid, nababalabalan ng bandila ng Pilipinas at binabantayan ng mga naka-unipormeng kawani. Sa tabi nito ay isang ipinintang larawan ng dating propesor at lingkod-bayan. (more…)