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8 days left in puerto princesa and here I am, downloading music and checking mail. sigh. my first visit here, i was drunk every night at the art gallery/resident artists' haven, a lot thinner, 18 and totally eradicating all traces of my conscience. no stage was too big for me, no drink too strong, no stranger too frightening. of course, AIDS was something you only saw on TV.

is it any good?

One of the best coral reefs in Puerto Princesa City; Palawan, according to Conservation International, has the highest coral diversity in the world. Pambato Reef is a newly launched (not as expensive/over-exposed as the other dive sites) area so if ever you get the chance to visit Palawan, make sure you go here.

Photographs are from an ELAC presentation for the Coastal Community Based Resource Management project.

The Wolf Trap(first published in the Zamboanga Peninsula Journal, February 2007;legal writing assignment under Prof. Adel Tamano)In the 18th century, indigenous people from Northern Europe would hunt wolves by using an ingeniously cruel wolf trap. This trap consists of a bloodied knife blade frozen into winter ice. When the wolf smells blood, it starts licking the blood off the knife, eventually cutting its own tongue on the sharp blade. The wolf licks at the knife in a maddened frenzy, unaware that it was drinking its own blood. The wolf’s blood attracts others nearby who would attack the trap’s victim and one another. With a single trap, the entire pack of wolves are killed.Similarly, mining in the Philippines operates like the wolf trap. Blessed with the fifth largest reserve of gold and copper in the world, the Philippines boasts of nine million hectares of potential mining land - of which just 1.4 is covered by mining permits.[1] Thus, the government is all too eager to grant mini...