The Citizen On Mars

The Boy With The Swirling Ship

Major Tom — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:47:58 +0000

What do you know; I’ve got another vivid dream last night*. No angels though yet I feel it’s worth elucidating if only for reason that it is such a lucid chunk of visions in my head while I slept so deeply and it may evoke some meanings for me or for the lives we all [...]

The Pond

Major Tom — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:49:56 +0000

One night in 2001, some months after my last job in the government was terminated, I was stuck in bed gazing at the ceiling and was in deep thought on what to do then with my life. I had a job offer from a friend but the pay was way too low compared with my [...]

Pyongyang’s Right Decision

Major Tom — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:41:53 +0000

June 26, 2008 should be marked as a historic date for world peace and North Korea’s move to destroy the cooling tower of it’s main nuclear reactor in Yongbon should be truly momentous and eventful and the world should have a good cause for celebration, a very good one in fact.

It should be remembered that [...]

DEUTERIUM : The White Gold of The Philippines

Major Tom — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:17:33 +0000

When I was in highschool, Michael Peralta, an old neighborhood friend from Carmen Street but who is now residing in Los Angeles, once spoke to me in a very animated fashion how the Philippines could one day become the richest country in the world. As a prelude, Michael said to me that his father had [...]

A Man of History: Barack Obama

Major Tom — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:39:49 +0000

I’ve been too busy these days with classes opening very soon now and I’ve been serving our college in the enrolment processing.

But I was always deep into the news most of the time and wasn’t one to miss one eventful episode in American history and world history for that matter. Senator Barack Obama has finally [...]

The Saddest Scenes From China

Major Tom — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:44:45 +0000

It’s really the saddest sight on television every time the rescue operation in Sichuan, China is being shown on cable news. I would often turn my stare away from the scenes on the screen as children were being pulled from under the rubles that had resulted from the massive quake that had befallen the area [...]