The Four-eyed Journal

I’ve often heard and read that life - some things in it - are a matter of trade-off; I may have been agonizingly unable to get online for the past 4 days thanks to the world-class (you wish!) service of the commercial power monopoly that is Meralco, I was able to catch up on my offline reading. I wasn’t only able to catch up, I was able to finish reading all the new books I bought last month. In the span of that 4 days of living life to the basics, thanks to Ambeth Ocampo and his Bones of Contention: The Bonifacio Lecture, I finally understood the origins of the term ‘Filipino‘ and why Andres Bonifacio has always referred to his fellow Katipuneros as “Tagalogs” some hundred years ago when the Philippine nation was born - right before it was sacked and perverted by Uncle Sam which is another story.

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