on mobile, tap “Listen in browser” on the soundcloud pod for an OPM (original Philippine music) in English, composed and originally performed by the Apo Hiking Society, then play the video below it: a Philippine indigenous pre-colonial Pangalay love dance (the pangalay dance movements pre-date colonization ), below the soundcloud pod, to bridge, and jam, 500 years of Philippine artistry…
Daily writing prompt: Q: If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?
Answer: This Valentine week, the one law that I would want to change is the archaic Revised Penal Code of the Philippines. Because it is medieval and antiquated, circa 1932 based on the 1870 Spanish Código Penal of the colonial Dark Ages, to be replaced with the draft Code of Crimes based on a study of the University of the Philippines Law Center, reviewed and endorsed by the Department of Justice of the Philippines, in particular, to remove the double standard in the adultery provision where only married women are liable for adultery, married men are not (unless they are a co-accused in a married woman’s adultery case): it should be repealed or be made to apply to all regardless of gender. Happy Valentine week!
Original photo by Myra Lambino
