Foot and Fire

I decided to send out my thoughts to sail despite the fact that the stirred waters seem to calm down now sometime after Tiktoker Euleen Castro, also known as "Pambansang Yobab," shared in a video her experience in Coffeebreak Iloilo stating that everything she tasted were tab-ang and then freely swore under her breath before a spread of food on her table. This blogpost of mine then is the quiet water coming back to its body after noisily hitting the seawall. Anyhow, I was gently reminded to write this down after reading the news that the Iloilo City Council is being pushed to declare vlogger Euleen Castro as persona non grata. Consultant for the Iloilo UNESCO Creative City for Gastronomy PJ Arañador recommended such a move and noted that declaring her as such will set as a precedent among content creators who should all be sensitive to the livelihood sectors and enterprises whose long years of toil a blogger can only disregard out of his or her own self-promotions, whims a...

The unbearable lightness of being By Milan Kundera Paperback, 314 pages Fiction & Philosophy I had attempted to read this novel before and recalled that I got heady by the introductory chapter as it tackles Philosophy. I am glad that I read it through this time, and maybe it is because I was able to read it at the right period of my life. On the personal level, I think if one has suffered/ is suffering from a midlife crisis, one can really understand the philosophical elucidations of the narrator (that is Kundera the author). We live our lives only once and since it is so, we have no other lives/ decisions to compare it from. This is opposed to the Nietze's philosophy of eternal return where eveything we experience recur in infinity, and thus if life does not recur, it mean nothing.  Lightness then is the idea that life is devoid of inherent meaning or significance, and individuals are free to make choices without being burdened by moral or existential weight or heaviness. If o...