At Casa San Pablo, San Pablo, Laguna for the ARSA Planning Seminar.
(Source: n0-h8-m8, via imchowdersbestfriend)
“Tagalogs, Ilongos, Cebuanos, and Pampangos use a common word for justice, katarungan, derived from the Visayan root tarong, which means straight, upright, appropriate, correct. For us, therefore, justice is not rectitude, the morally right act; and because it also connotes what is appropriate, it embraces the concept of equity for which we have no native word, and for which on the rare occasions that we use the concept, we employ the Spanish derivative ekidad.
For “right,” we use karapatan, whose root is dapat, signifying fitting, appropriate, correct. The similarity in meaning of the root words for “right” and “justice” indicates that, for us, justice and right are intimately related.
On the other hand, for “law” we use batas, a root word denoting command, order, decree, with a meaning disparate from that of the roots of our words for “justice” and “right.” Our language then distinguishes clearly between law and justice; it recognizes that law is not always just.”
-Sen. Jose W. Diokno
from “A Nation for our Children”
(Selected Writings of Jose W. Diokno, edited by Priscilla S. Manalang)
Copyright 1987 by the Jose W. Diokno Foundation, Inc
Co-edited and printed by Claretian Publications
“When you meet the right person, you know it. You can’t stop thinking about them, they’re your best friend and your soul mate, you can’t wait to spend the rest of your life with them, no one and nothing else can compare.”
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For Barney the second that would never end, was this one.
I can’t. </3
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life:
50 Photos That Brought the War Home. It’s Veterans Day and the least we can do.
No single picture from World War II — in fact, arguably, no single 20th-century photograph — is more famous than Alfred Eisenstaedt’s “VJ Day in Times Square.”
On August 14, 1945 — but when this photo appeared in LIFE, countless readers were drawn to the story it told: a man and a woman, both in uniform, both young, in the very heart of America’s greatest city, celebrating the end of a long, brutal conflict with that most unwarlike of gestures: a lingering, “Who cares who sees us?” kiss.
(Source: quote-book)
The night I met my roommate (Gloria Tsang) and her friends — Lester Lu, Ronald Chin and Josephine Peh. This photo was taken at a hawker center last August 3, 2011.
This has been my home for the last 3 months. Three more weeks and I have to say goodbye to this place. Bittersweet.
