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Adieu... and Godspeed my joy.

I would like to share one of my letters pertaining ppa of culion
I know this is an old if not dead issue in culion.
and Everybody seems to accept it. I want to share this just to inculcate my self... What could be my misconception or mistaken belief with regards to this power of executive order No. 403... Last centennial of culion palawan there was a prominent visitor which is our governor who acknowledge and approved this project because for him it is essential and necessary simply because it is called development. Ok but does it balance the nature of ordinance and peoples involvements? Between natural environment & community against betterment? and this is also my reflections with regards to his approvals... my argument is this “basin is the heart of my community, of brotherhood and of family. It is the symbol of my becoming, my joys, and youthfulness. The destruction of it is the undoing of my past and of my community.” so I need some justifications of this cruel orders which is for me is just to maintain their political positions.... correct me I could be wrong and if not then reveal the proper order... things are in observance... to balance things. and I hope that this could be a productive moments...

Adieu... and Godspeed my joy.

Development has many levels, many variations to the same tunes, but the question lies…. What is the difference between personal achievements and the ability to develop for the good of all, that which is essentially a kind of development that is enforced to help the weak. The poorest. The powerless. The humanity.

Development can reduce community when it utilizes all the elements of forces only for one’s disposal in order to protect one’s own self interest. In macro point of view it applies to all forms of human desideratum..

The function of it uses only for one’s own personal self-interest is in fact the act of propelling ones self over another. It is what the psychologists described as Ego-consciousness… the lowest form of consciousness that is vest to the animal instinct of survival... The “survival of the fittest”? They will do anything to survive? It’s simply serving their egoistic self...

Then, who are the fittest in culion? The kings and queens of puerto prinsesa? Who are their sycophant who cannot repress their animal instinct… and frustrate their neighbors not more than their community... adoring their sham icons. Buying all balangays...

So what is true development? Is it building accesses for one’s own survival? Or is it the reflection of growth that encounters with the complexity of modern life? can we call ppa growth?

What is true development? Is it the marina or the people? ppa or basin? Is it the enjoyment of growth, or just a way of escaping this banal existence? Escaping downfalls...

What is true development? Is it the aesthetics formation of buildings or port, like concept or ridiculous ideas of this apocryphal claims of serving their people? Or is it the springing and a call from the depths of actuality where works are made to articulate the spirit of involvements…What is this advancement? Why are they confusing? Why when things evolve it becomes so disrectful, bogus and blasphemous. Pretending like god or serving?

Why is it always painful to go out there and view those empty walls where the abysmal void hurt with the shameless plasticity of it all? Why do we have to make walls of isolations on progress and betterment? Why do we have to clog and cast off commonality? Why do we have to wall the basin and pantalan?

Why is it that this development seems to have lost its spirit and moralities?

What are great achievements and strides made of? Why does it seem that while we experience accomplishments in businesses or productivity (DO WE?) we find the equal deterioration of the bayanihan spirit found in community? The spirit of oneness and solidarity... but instead we have apathy and torpidity. We have walls of ppa.

The complexities of modern life have become so bizarre as the philosophy of materialism have been well applied to defeat underdevelopment --- transforming money as the basic essential commodity that will feed the human body... Ah I think they’re just serving survival instinct... Then life might become formidable, unreasonable, vexatious and weaked, so painful, so sad and morose. Transforming the port into business... But where are the ships?!

Development includes business and can order by laws of the president or governor or mayor... a kind of system.
Yes indeed a system is a system that without which we cannot function in an organized way. The system is in place in order to create an illusion of control… the laws of man… of government… of industry or business… of this so called development.

But the problem lies not in the system or laws. It lies in the hearts of man or woman where the system becomes the end, the means to an end. It is a kind of system where progress has been assign to a mere survival -- where people denounce involvements, belongingness, in place of indifference... of money?

But development is not for the weak hearted nor for those ego-conscious-mind who only serve their animal instinct where reasons are irrelevant and nonsense…please, it is not for them all!

Development should be the backbone of a town. It must be effective and produce good results. Its created projects must depict, capture and document great achievements of great people’s way of life and values. Without it a place perhaps may not have been existed. Great minds that move the course of a community’s future know the value of development as an essential component in the promotion of ethics of pure life… evolvement is a community canonization. It is therefore an idea that development should belong to the people, for the people and by the people… yet look around culion?

Jose Rizal said: PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY ARE GOING. The reason we do not have a sense of country is that we do not have a sense of history.

The best thing we can improve Culion is not ONLY that we have more natural resources, and how to be productive on this area.... we also need better political system or even better leaders.and most of all the people should have a sense of community. The spirit of involvement. HERE LIES THE MAJOR PROBLEM. Not to mention the budgets!

I am going back to the past, because i’m questioning the present in order to see my future.. Above all, I get to
have a sense of belonging to the community, or as that sublime Filipino word goes, "malasakit" for it. This is my compassion for the community, my sympathy for the community, my desire to do something for the community.

Basin is the product of my past. And it represents the beautiful values of our parents and grandparents; to preserve it is to preserve the memory of the great things they have done; their suffering, their love for one another; their laughter, their tears, their hopes, their dreams. They wanted to tell me or us that we are standing on the shoulders of great men; that we should
Not forget their warm hearts and their sacrifices; that we should treasure, and honor the beautiful gifts they have left us. at the least the “malasaki” they have done and endure... and one of this is the symbol of basin...


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BASIN is a breakwater port of culion palawan that was being destroyed by the ppa to build their port in our town which is not appropriate because there are a lot of other good places for their businesses. they destroyed our heritage and with it our community. they destroyed it in 2005 building like a berlin wall behind our faces and houses where we get our food (fishes) to feed our families... so sad:( and until now it has done anything good for our town!!!

kindly inform me by email if you'll put it in your inq.net
thanks a million.