"Memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing."
"As time goes by, we don't give a second thought to all the memories unconsciously accumulate until suddenly one day we can't think of the name of a good friend or relation -- it's simply gone, we've forgotten it. In vain we search furiously to think of a commonplace work -- it's on the tip of our tongues but refuses to go further. Once this happens, this and other lapses, only then do we understand the importance of memory. Our imagination and our dreams are forever intruding our memory. And since we're all out to believe in the reality of our fantasies, we end up transforming our lies into truths."
Luis Buñuel (My Last Breath)
How did he get it right? Oh yes, his daughter called him up as she wept to tell him that it’s all over the radio and television. His departure from the bench was the banner story of all the early evening news. The next day, his weeping daughter said, his termination from the Court of Appeals, as sure as the sun explodes in the East, is the newspapers’ front page.
He was stunned. Almost paralyzed. This is what they call nervous breakdown, he thought. His fingers failed him. Simultaneously, he sweated all over despite the almost blast freezing temperature inside his Mercedes Benz. His friends hitching with him always said something best about his car air-conditioning as something nothing like it. Ironically, the last of them who made that unctuous remark was Justice Jose Sabio, the man who went to town.
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Raging in the papers is the ongoing investigation by a select panel designated by the Supreme Court to look into the revelations made by Justice Jose Sabio that a bribe offer of P10M was dangled to him by a gofer of Manolo Lopez, the President of Manila Electric Company. The High Tribunal gave the probe squad until August 21, 2008 to wind up the investigation and submit its findings.
The panel ended its inquiry on August 30, 2008 and has submitted its findings to the High Court which calendared it for deliberation on September 9, 2008. Shortly thereafter, a decision shall be announced. Already, scuttlebutt spreads that about seven members of the appellate court are up for replacements.
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On August 19, 2008, the birth anniversary of MLQ in Quezon Province (where it’s a holiday), we deem it opportune to launch our baby, the SAVE QUEZON PROVINCE MOVEMENT. It is now a body corporate, no less than registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a corporation, it is now what the lawyers call - a juridical entity. By way of digression, why doesn’t the GRP, that’s the government of the Republic of the Philippines for you, just create a corporation under the Corporation Code instead of embellishing the MILF with high fallutin’ legal terminology, christening (they might issue a fatwa against us for this!) it Bangsa Moro Juridical Entity, and in the process shooting itself in the foot?
We invited various media representatives on the occasion. A good number of student leaders from the state universities from Lucban and Lopez and from private schools in Lucena City attended as well. They fielded interesting questions that crystallized the countervailing reasons necessary for the electorate to make an intelligent choice hopefully.
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