If you’ve been keen on observing news items recently, marriage spats involving several celebrity personalities and politicians have been all over broadcasts, with many wives crying foul over abuse and mistreatment from their husbands after many years of being together. Well, these cases get the attention not really because of the nature or gravity of the abuse but because they are public figures and that anything they do would always be seen as an item for discussion in the media. But much as it is what it is for our media, what’s happening or what is at least being reported is a microcosm of what’s been happening in society today.

By the time this article is published, our National Team Gilas Pilipinas and its fate may have already been sealed or it may still be in a heated battle in the Quarterfinals of the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship being held here in Manila. Be that as it may, this article will not lose meaning nor will it lose any relevance.

Many political pundits and even ordinary citizens awaited the 4^th State of the Nation Address of President Noynoy Aquino. It was the subject once again of many talks along the streets and subject of many analysis from many opinion makers and political analysts. But what seems to be more interesting nowadays is to find out the reaction of Social Media Users regarding the 2013 version of the SONA. Some youth groups have even launched an online gimmick for President Aquino’s SONA.

Let it be reminded the in the 15^th Congress, SK Reform bills and other relevant measures have been filed and have remained pending in the House Committees on revision of laws, youth and on local government.

I can stand by the traffic, the occasional snatching and hold-ups, the corruption and even often the poverty. But what I cannot stand anymore is this inhumane treatment that innocent children are being submitted to.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this problem has become perennial and to some, a permanent problem that will take years and decades to be solved. I also wouldn’t be surprised that some went on to say that Dan Brown’s impression of Manila as the “gates of hell” was true because of the hellacious experience they had on the streets with the exhausting traffic and the heavy flooding in many major roads.

It is alarming and indeed worrisome for students who are about to graduate and for the many who are left wondering if there are really jobs out there for the taking.

It wasn’t Nancy Binay’s fault that she won. Her candidacy and her nomination as a party candidate of UNA went through a selection process, rigged as it may be claimed by some or not.

I write this article with some bias because I’m a member of a political party. But other than the bias, there’s something I want to share with you- an experience that is worth more than what candidates are willing to pay voters and more than the mileage an endorsement from any group can offer--- the opportunity to be with genuine change makers, in the form of some local candidates who may not have the financial means to compete against the bigger political machineries of the country but have the competence, the character and the commitment to serve the country genuinely.

The fact and that matter is that films that sell normally have repeats, part threes, part fours and even prequels. Why? Not that they just love the artists who portray the roles, but it is because of the failure of some to get over stories that made them believe in “kilig” and so-called “true love.”

Every week, I have been given the chance to write about the country, the society and the institutions that comprise our existence as Filipinos and as citizens of this world. It is bravery for such a man who has no formal training in writing to be given this privilege to speak in behalf of the youth, a sector so often mentioned as the hope of the motherland but so often burdened by unreasonable expectations.

A lot of social media users have already expressed their disdain and disappointment to Mr. Revillame over his actuations that he chose to divulge his reprimand against his co-hosts in public instead of resolving the issue behind the cameras.