Happy birthday!

You deserve this space. But before you occupy it without my annoyance, I want to thank you for being human with me. And for being non-expressive of how bad I make you feel.

When we lose our cultural site

I'm pretty sure that if Ka Pepe (Mercado Rizal) is alive today, the least that he would want is a statue to honor his deeds for the country he passionately loved.

Perhaps he would prefer that we spend money to build libraries or invest in conducting researches for eye diseases.

But he is dead. And I believe we just commemorated something centennial about his life.

Anyway, our ancestors built his statue in the same park where he was executed simply because he is the elected national hero. And that statue has been the landmark of many visiting selfie-taking tourists and of foreign leaders who pay respect.

Maybe we should all just move the Rizal Park somewhere else. How about in Calamba where he was born? Perhaps Ka Pepe's townmates will take better care of the cultural aspect his statue stands for.

Or maybe let's have the cultural community hold a survey among local governments, excluding The city of Manila, and ask who wants to adopt the Rizal Park.

We should move the park somewhere outside of Manila. Obviously, the local government of Manila when it allowed the Torre de Manila be constructed right behind Rizal's statue, demonstrated signs of oblivion. We somehow forgot that the park symbolizes injustice done to a hero. If you ask me, Germany has a better understanding of taking care of the friendship that Ka Pepe left as a legacy with them.

I mean, unless someone in business negotiates to convert the facade of Torre de Manila into something Filipiniana (or like the Taj in India), then it wouldn't be an eyesore when we have people take pictures.

We just lost our own Tiannanmen Square.  How sad for the community.