the ArmChair Thoughts

There was Haiti and now Chile, guess whose fault it is…I’m guessing global warming, theologians, and academicians, I’m kidding about the academician part and the rest remains valid, global warming and theologians, faux alike. Maybe I’ve lost my sympathy–but people are dying by the thousands everyday and the economist in me is saying: “maybe it’s [...]

Language, n.: a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition. Apart from this definition, I think language as culture, an identity. And, it’s interesting how many are forgetting their culture (language) as [...]

Today is Valentine’s and everyone’s possibly doing something or planning to. Few posts ago, I thought of the idea of love; whatever it means to you–this is how I see it, here, here and here. All those said, this is the last of the series and I figured a better to end it is this [...]

From a song that got stuck on my mind and even more so how I feel of late: If I could run away I’d run away with you Far Away To a place, where there’ll be angels Who would describe to you The Way I feel Feel for You! Feel About You You’re my heart [...]

I’ve thought (written?) several about my thoughts on life and for the various facet life gives us, sometimes it feels like we are being tricked by life; sometimes it feels like we’re getting a treat. Maybe that’s what the “life’s not rosy” phrase means, I’m still not sure. This is poem written by four of [...]

Some of my recent Haiku on Haiti (except the last)… O heart groan/  like an axed tree cut short in time I sit  I watch I moan heart throbing  body hit mind ever strong let’s be honest  and be a mind high on Haiti tick tick  time passing help, give, donate Ineffable woe  Infallible spirits [...]

And there have been the Haiti crisis to which I reminded us, we are nothing but humans irrespective of how high we think of ourselves and more especially, we are monkeys. This is a transcription from an old video which makes the thinking clearer, we as monkeys. Be prepared for a long session to laugh, [...]

While I can’t make the perfect world happen, I at least can imagine it; or I can at least imagine what I can do to make the world, in my imagination, perfect, or better put: If we were a Painter, We’d paint a picture of a perfect world. Some sort of – no evil, better [...]

I’ve been thinking of a new medium of expression outside poetry or song writing, actually, not really outside those, more of a fusion of both and truly express how we, I, you, they, all feel — those feelings we cannot physically express, those feelings we wish people can just look at us and see through… [...]

I’ve thought long and hard about writing; and I’ve acted long and hard about it too–it is hard, for me, real hard. To get my writing better was actually one of the reasons I started this blog back when I was a freshman (about four years ago), now I wonder, has my writing gotten any [...]