Cyril

  Many Filipinos suffer from increased vulnerability to changes in the environment due to geographical factors, socio-economic conditions, and increasing intensities of impacts associated with climate change. Inherent to the country's unique archipelagic geography is position: it places the Philippines right in the path of natural hazards, while at the same time the socioeconomic problems are contributing to a hapless compromise of various capacities of communities to cope with and recover from disasters. These were made worse by a global climate crisis and this entire combination makes for a cyclic form of vulnerability that is worse for the poor and marginalized sectors. The Philippines is located in an area characterized by the "Pacific Ring of Fire," as well as in the typhoon belt, thus making the country arguably one of the most disaster-prone nations across the globe. An average of about 20 typhoons affects the country every year, most of which make landfall. These ...

       Under the electric buzz of intramural sports, one game outshone others in a way that made it distinct, albeit unexpressed. However, while other venues buzzed with the sounds of basketball courts and volleyball, only boxing rings had respect in the room. When a bell first rang to signal the fight, an energy that could not be described filled the area, proving something very unique about a confrontation between two people.      It isn't in the craziness of being part of a team sport; it's the purest form of competition. It's just two individuals standing in the ring, with the destiny determined by courage, skill, and will. This is just raw-form it delivers powerfully. It's a kind of story about the struggle, the resilience, and then the victory with the source in itself. Every fighter is a hero in his epic, every jab, hook, and uppercut to these lines of conversation-in both physical and deep psychological way.  Every sight about that punch b...