Foot and Fire

When you're already 20+ years late in fulfilling something in your bucket list, the excitement and fulfillment doubles, at least this is what I felt when I got my first blood donation this week. I remember the first time I lined up for bloodletting. It was 1999 and at the gym of Passi City which then celebrated its first fiesta as a component city. I was there as part of my on-job-training in a local paper.  I queued myself hoping to donate that day. But I did not make it past the weighing scale because I do not weigh at least 50 kilos. To not waste my time, I was offered to know my blood type. I then knew that my blood type follows that of my father's. There were many invitations and queues for bloodletting after that but it took a long time for me to be qualified as donor because I weighed less than 50 kgs, I had my period or I was anemic.  For the first timers, here are my take-away pointers after making it past the weighing scale. Your blood pressure will be noted ...

P v Guinto decision: I beg to disagree in part In excluding the persons charged with heinous crime, who agreed in writing to abide by the same disciplinary rules imposed upon convicted prisoners, in availing credits for preventive imprisonment through the decision reached in P v Guinto, En Banc , GR 249027 and 249155, 3 April 2024[1] and the consequent issuance of 2024 IRR of RA 10592 thereafter, disregard the intent of RA 10592.   The Guinto case was brought by the convicted prisoners who were released by virtue of RA 10592 but were excluded in the 2019 IRR. The portion of the 2019 IRR was nullified in so far as it disqualifies persons deprived of liberty who are subsequently convicted by final judgment. Justice Leonen has a dissenting opinion while Chief Justice Gesmundo and Justice Caguioa have concurring opinions and all support the dispositive portion.   It was a surprise how our esteemed justices missed another way of giving life to the words and intent of RA...