Tuesday

28/05/2026

I soooooooo love the comment

22/05/2026

Wish I knew this 🧐🧐🧐
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXwRJaXCYJE/?igsh=Y2E5NXF1eHo4eGgx

01/05/2026

I thought we were like this, sticking together through fat and fatter 😲😲😲

30/04/2026

If I get dementia, I’d like my family to hang this wish list up on the wall where I live. I want them to remember these things.

1. Every time you enter the room announce yourself. “Hi Dad - it’s ………...”
NEVER ask- Do you know who I am??? That causes anxiety.

2. If I get dementia, I want my friends and family to embrace my reality. 🌸

3. If I think my spouse is still alive, or if I think we’re visiting my parents for dinner, let me believe those things. I’ll be much happier for it.❤️

4. If I get dementia, don’t argue with me about what is true for me versus what is true for you.👍🏽❤️👍🏽

5. If I get dementia, and I am not sure who you are, do not take it personally. My timeline is confusing to me.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

6. If I get dementia, and can no longer use utensils, do not start feeding me. Instead, switch me to a finger-food diet, and see if I can still feed myself.❤️🥰❤️🥰

7. If I get dementia, and I am sad or anxious, hold my hand and listen. Do not tell me that my feelings are unfounded.

8. If I get dementia, I don’t want to be treated like a child. Talk to me like the adult that I am. ❤️

9. If I get dementia, I still want to enjoy the things that I’ve always enjoyed. Help me find a way to exercise, read, and visit with friends. ❤️

10. If I get dementia, ask me to tell you a story from my past.

11. If I get dementia, and I become agitated, take the time to figure out what is bothering me. ❤️

12. If I get dementia, treat me the way that you would want to be treated. ❤️

13. If I get dementia, make sure that there are plenty of snacks for me in the house. Even now if I don’t eat I get angry, and if I have dementia, I may have trouble explaining what I need.❤️

14. If I get dementia, don’t talk about me as if I’m not in the room.👍🏽

15. If I get dementia, don’t feel guilty if you cannot care for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s not your fault, and you’ve done your best. Find someone who can help you, or choose a great new place for me to live.👍🏽

16. If I get dementia, and I live in a dementia care community, please visit me often.❤️

17. If I get dementia, don’t act frustrated if I mix up names, events, or places. Take a deep breath. It’s not my fault.👍🏽

18. If I get dementia, make sure I always have my favorite music playing within earshot.❤️❤️❤️

19. If I get dementia, and I like to pick up items and carry them around, help me return those items to their original place.👍🏽

20. If I get dementia, don’t exclude me from parties and family gatherings.❤️

21. If I get dementia, know that I still like receiving hugs or handshakes.❤️🥰❤️

22. If I get dementia, remember that I am still the person you know and love.”🌼❤️

In Honor of someone you know or knew who has dementia. In Honor of all those I know and love and lost who are fighting Dementia/Alzheimer’s.

Someone once said if you take care of someone with dementia you lose them more and more everyday. When they get the diagnosis, when they go through different stages, when they need treatment and when they pass away.

This is called "the longest goodbye ". As the brain slowly dies, they change physically and eventually forget who their loved ones are. They could end up lying in bed, not moving and not eating or drinking.

There will be people who will scroll past this post because Dementia has not touched them. They may not know what it's like to have a loved one who has battled or is still battling dementia.

To raise awareness of this cruel disease, I would like my friends to put this on their page today.
Hold your finger on the post to copy and paste to your timeline.

A special thank you to anyone willing to put this on their timeline.
💔

27/04/2026

23/04/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HwUTENxKs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

18/03/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/1As4LozPmL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

How wrong became right:
Save us from Dutertismo

by Jarius Bondoc - Mar. 13, 2026 (Edited 8:35 a.m.)

Rockstar lawyer Carlo Ybañez laments: “Because of Duterte, wrong became right.

“Before the Dutertes came into your life, wasn’t right from wrong clear to you? You knew it was wrong to murder. Wrong to insult women. Wrong to mock God. Wrong to break the law. Wrong to threaten. Wrong to side with foreign interest against your country’s.

“These were obvious to you before. But what happened when the Dutertes entered? Gradually you came to justify that wrong can become right. Killing became valid, so long as addicts. Degrading women became acceptable, if by a President’s joke. Permissible to call God stupid.

“Unthinkable how you justify it to yourself. But they became right to you anyway. Lawbreaking became okay because the rights to due process, to privacy, to travel don’t matter. Same with threatening to slaughter. Or giving up our territory to others because we can’t defend it.

“Your metamorphosis didn’t end there. What were wrong before, you came to admire as virtues. One who murders is brave. One who dishonors women is macho. One who blasphemes is honest. One who violates laws is clever. One who allies with the enemy is practical.

“Look at yourself in the mirror. That’s the person you’ve become. When Duterte came into your life, you threw principles into the wastebin. Right or wrong?”

Last week a congressman manifested those flaws. He rationalized VP Sara Duterte’s livestreamed threat to assassinate Bongbong Marcos, Liza Araneta, and Martin Romualdez. Supposedly VP Sara was not plotting but merely expressing a wish, so no basis to impeach her.

He exemplified himself. Purportedly upon seeing in person actress Anne Curtis, he entertained earthly desires. “But of course those were only imaginings, and no one would sue me for my imagination.”

Fellow-congressmen had his crass utterances stricken off the record. Female colleagues cautioned him against breaching parliamentary ethics. Mayor Joy Belmonte had to remind him that he was majority leader when the Quezon City Council ordained against degrading women. The House of Reps holds sessions in QC.

Next day, the lawyer-spokesman of Rodrigo Duterte’s PDP-Laban joined the fray. He taunted Ms. Curtis’ sister Jasmine for wanting to be desired by posting selfies in bikinis. He boasted that he once desired Gabriela Rep. Sarah Elago after he caught a whiff of her scent during a hearing. So sue me, he dared.

That afternoon a pro-Duterte senator asked a foreign female athlete during formal hearings if she has any Filipino boyfriend. He then pointed to a married colleague as eligible.

To recall, the senator who heads PDP-Laban denigrated the law against marital r**e because “men have the right to sexual satisfaction”.

The four can’t keep locker room talk inside the locker room. Thus, they break laws on safe spaces.

Their “Tatay Digong” has infected them. While campaigning for president in 2016 he said he should have been first in line as mayor when Davao City prisoners gangr**ed and slew a nun.

In his first press-con as President he wolf-whistled at a female reporter who raised her hand for a question. Several times thereafter, he told soldiers that he’d defend them in court if they r**ed, but only up to three times. He exhorted them to shoot female rebels in the ge****ls.

On his first Christmas as President, he mocked the Eucharist, “Body of Christ sa inyong igit (in your sh*t).” Often he derided the God of Christians, Muslims, and Jews for “being stupid to let the serpent tempt Adam and Eve”.

Professing love for President Xi Jinping, he begged him to make the Philippines a province of China. He called “gago” voters who believed his campaign promise to jet-ski to the Spratlys to plant the Philippine flag and declare to China that “this is ours”. Today nine of 24 senators parrot Duterte’s kowtow.

Worst was Duterte’s bloody war on drugs that killed 7,000 on official record. Thirty thousand if including vigilante slayings.

At the International Criminal Court on Feb. 23rd lawyer Joel Butuyan denounced the virus of impunity that Duterte spread across the Philippines. It infected Filipinos to the point that they could no longer discern right from wrong, evil from good.

Journalist-human rights advocate Carlos Conde knows very well what Butuyan meant as common legal representative for the drug war victims. For decades Conde had reported Davao City police murders of druggies. Also of tortures and kidnappings of suspected rebels elsewhere. He survived harassment and attempts at violent silencing, and so was able to sit at the ICC gallery that day.

On the way back to hotel Conde watched a group of Duterte supporters chanting the name of their idol who is indicted for crimes against humanity. That night he wrote about the need to “dedutertefy” the Philippines the way postwar Germany denazified itself.

“The ICC process is necessary but not sufficient,” Conde stated. “What the Philippines needs is a genuine moral reckoning—in schools, in media, in families, in politics. We need to look honestly at the culture of impunity that made Duterte not just possible but popular. We need to stop treating his supporters’ feelings as more important than his victims’ lives.

“Dedutertefication won’t be easy. It won’t be comfortable. But it is the only path back to a country worth believing in.”

Photo by Philippine News Agency

* * *
Catch Sapol radio show, Saturdays, 8 to 10 a.m., DWIZ (882-AM).

15/03/2026

Me after my shift filled with long, toxic calls… wala ng boses, masakit pa lalamunan