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Finale Art File at Xavier Fest 2025

on February 28, 2025

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Vita Sarenas at Xavier Arts Fest 2025

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The Eruptions January 8, 2000 In the lightest of gestures I see so much meaning; That I could only hold until, A fiery blast so consumes me; a shortness of breath to gasp air, unfocused eyes and throbbing breast; deep sojourns and tall peaks, From a mountain and to a grave; From the highest I loose myself, To the deep crevasse I hide And in this darkness that I bring myself into; I would not overcome alone, without my arms around you Sobbing... Crying... in my racking tremors and weakening eruptions. Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ Mandaluyong City, Philippines *** visit me at http://www.facebook.com/miel.roldan and my blogs: www.amielroldan.wordpress.com www.amielroldan.blogspot.com www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/ag-roldan.html www.myspace.com/amiel_roldan www.amiel_roldan.multiply.com www.face-pic.com/amiel_roldan please comment and tag if you like my compilations. amiel_roldan@yahoo.com amiel.roldan@gmail.com PS A friend posted this disclosure. I am willin...

Ghost Projects and the Specter of Accountability

--- Title: Ghost Projects and the Specter of Accountability: Infrastructure Corruption and the Reimagination of Punitive Governance in the Philippines Abstract: This essay investigates the proliferation of ghost infrastructure projects in the Philippines, particularly within flood control programs, and the legislative momentum to reimpose the death penalty for corruption. Drawing from publicly available government reports, Senate proceedings, and civil society responses, it examines how infrastructural failure becomes a site of political contestation, moral outrage, and juridical recalibration. The ghost project phenomenon is situated within a broader postcolonial critique of state-building, economic sabotage, and the ethics of punitive governance. --- I. Introduction: Infrastructure as Spectacle and Spectre Infrastructural development in the Philippines has long been positioned as a symbol of national progress and state capacity. Yet, recent re...

Manila’s Exhalation: An Esoteric Recasting of the Philippines’ Economic Awakening in 2026 and Beyond

Manila’s Exhalation: An Esoteric Recasting of the Philippines’ Economic Awakening in 2026 and Beyond January 1, 2026 Introduction: The Skyline as Palimpsest Manila did not merely welcome 2026—it performed it. Fireworks stitched the skyline together, exploding over rooftops like the city was finally exhaling after a long, loud year. For a few reckless minutes, the metropolis became a singular organism, its millions of eyes turned upward, its chaos suspended in a fragile choreography of light. Phones rose like votive candles, capturing the ephemeral spectacle, and in that moment Manila reminded itself—and the world—that it still knew how to be romantic. This image, at once intimate and grandiose, becomes the premise for a deeper meditation: how does a city, and by extension a nation, redefine itself in the years to come? How does the Philippines, with its turbulent history and resilient spirit, transmute noise into symphony, mess into mosaic, and chaos into a new economic awak...

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