Happy Rizal day to every one ! Every 30th of December here in the Philippines, we celebrate what is known as "Rizal Day," Jose Rizal's death anniversary. For those who do not know who he is, Jose Rizal is considered as one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines and is widely well known as the "national hero." By virtue of a law, college students here in the Philippines are required to take up a course on his life. There are some students though that complain that this course has no purpose at all as it does not have any relevance to our modern day life, well I strongly disagree with such comment, I'll write more about this later. I remember taking up the Rizal course in college. Our teacher told us to buy a "Jose Rizal" book by a certain author, so we bought such book. Days later he was replaced by another teacher who required us to buy another book. I didn't want to spend money to buy another book, so I borrowed a book from a classmate and promised to return it within … [Read more...]