Hi Krishna,

Thank you so much for your reply. Yes you are right that there are “paid media” practitioners nowadays. Those journalists or media practitioners that consider only their selfish ends and see journalism as a means or vehicle for personal enrichment of aggrandizement prostitutes journalism as a profession and callings.

These type of media practitioners or journalists are a big shame to their profession and to their comrades in the profession.

We have a term in the Philippines for these shameless media practitioners or journalists and such practice. We called them “envelopemental

journalism”. Why? Simply because these hack writers or paid writers received their money from their patrons inside an envelope—meaning the money is contained inside an envelope given to a journalist or media practitioner, that’s why the term “envelopemental journalism”.

It is journalism for money and nothing else, to the disadvantaged and detriment of the public welfare. Such brand of journalism if ever we can call it journalism has no place in our society and must be immediately condemn and expose at once.

We can only hope and pray that the present and next generation of journalist will be true to their profession and callings.
Otherwise, journalism for sure will lose the very reason for its existence.

Hi cely,

Thank you so much for your reply. It will be a very sad day indeed if there will come a time that there will be connivance between the judges and lawyers in deliberately delaying the speedy disposition of criminal cases.

That situation is not good for the person accused of any crimes especially “heinous crimes” where you cannot post any bail whatsoever.

The hard thing is that while the case is on-going the accused is languishing in jail for a long period of time only to be finally acquitted and release by the Supreme Court if ever that the case reached the court of last resort.

We know that the jail condition in our country is far from being ideal. Almost all jails are crowded and too full of prisoners. The food being fed to the prisoners are not that good either.

We cannot understand why it took so long before any given criminal case, say for example drug cases like sale of “shabu” could be disposed and terminated by the court.

Almost 60%-70% of the criminal cases pending trial in the Philippines are mostly drug cases which continue to clog every court docket.

I think there is a need for strict monitoring and regular inventory of all drug cases from all court so that the right to speedy trial of every accused will be a living reality.

Hi acelawrites,

Thanks again for your comment. Yes you are right—there’s always the great danger that innocent people wrongly accused of crime may die if and when the death penalty will be revive or re-impose in our country.

It is common knowledge that those who are being charged for the crime or offense of Illegal Drugs whether for possession or sale are always those who comes from the poor sector of our society.
The same is true for those being convicted for the sale of drugs—those who comes from the poor sector of our society or almost always on the poverty level.

The present campaign of the Duterte Administration against drugs or its “war on drugs” and the possible revival or re-imposition of the capital punishment or death penalty are two interconnected things.

On the level of principle yes we need to fight the drug menace in the Philippine society due to its pernicious effect which is quite obvious and is self-explanatory. However, such campaign against drugs much always be done in accordance and within the limitation provided for by law.

As they say, there’s always a thin blue line between law enforcement and taking the law into one’s hand i.e. EJK or the rise of vigilantism.

There are many different things I observe especially how infants and children of today behave. I learn many new things observing them and these were some of the ones which belong to that. Infants nowadays seem to be more aware and intelligent compared to say those 20 to 30 years back. What is shows is that human brain is developing at a rapid pace while the size of the brain is slowly but surely becoming small.

Infants also like to have something in their hand to hold. Holding not only is an exercise for the hands and fingers but also teaches them to grip things and what I understand is gripping a toy makes them feel in control of things and if they like to enjoy the sound when the toy gripped is moved they tend to move their hands faster which is a good exercise for the hands of the infants. Thanks for the input, appreciate the same.

Thanks for the feed back it helps me understand infants and children better. In my opinion if we try understand and communicate with them from the infancy stage then it would be of great help for the parents to handle him or her as they grow older. If the emotional bond is strong then the infant of the child will have lesser difficulties as they grow up. Their coping mechanism will also be far better. Attention has to be given to them and it is their right but one must be careful to see that they are not being spoilt as that creates trouble for them and parents when they grow up.

I have also seen infants of a year age slapping their brother and they also would want to come and attend the study center where the elder one is going. They want to be with them and they also would want to get what the elder one seems to get in their opinion. They do not want to be left out of the party of life. It is a interesting experience for me observing these things. The mother who is the basic provider and the care giver has to take good care of her health by giving herself sufficient rest and time as it is a must for tending properly to the children as it is energy draining and saps one of the energy and makes them tired running after them the whole day. Appreciate the information you provided.

Thank you Krishna Kumar for a very good response. It can be a blog in itself! (joke). Yes, you are right, adults should not travel very far from home if they are not physically able to do it.

So while young, people should take the opportunity to go places and meet a lot of people too! When they grow old, they would be happy to reminisce the people and beautiful places they had visited.