This article is not an intervention to the common understanding of Valentine's Day but a supporting idea. Valentine's Day is commonly understood as a day of lovers. Usually, it is associated with the exchanging of notes, cards, etc expressing their love to one another.

Lovers vary between man to woman or vice versa, man to man and woman to woman depending on your own choice of desire. But this matter had raised a lot of issues. The Church in particle is consistent to its fundamental principle that a couple should be at all times between a man and a woman though some liberals had badly criticized this idea.

The conflict sparked when it was proven that the grounds used by previous parties were insufficient. Mere usage of traditions and stories to interpret the concept. But here comes the new way, an easy way to decode the concept of Valentine. It is simple yet comprehensive because it would examine the very fundamentals of the concept.

The revealing definition is actually an expanded understanding but in a simple way, putting some decorations into the concept. Valentine is indeed a day only for those who have partners. And on the day must have a partner because take a look at the term “VALENTINE”. Is it not a two-coined word with a connector in between to which the two must be intact? Let us do mathematics now to make it more colorful to understand. The given terms of the word Valentines are Val, En and Tines. Did you see that? Is it not that Val is a name of a person? I have a neighbor that bear with this name. The second is En but let us proceed with the remaining one so that we can understand this simply. So the last word is Tine. Is it not a name of again of a person? Yes it is actually. Both Val and Tine are names names of a person. You can search that n the internet. However, these names are uncommon. That's a fact. So what's next? These names are incomplete if these are just they are. I mean it is nonsense to relate it with Valentine because it does not follow. Oh come on! Here is the binding force that put meaning to this. Have you notice we left the term En. En is very important because it is the one that makes Valentine complete. But take note since in is a binding force it possesses a different role in the context. It is to be used using its sound. Meaning "En" is sound like what? Is it not sound like "and"? So this really the fate of this term to be considered "and" in the context of Valentine. Therefore to sum up the entire thing Valentine is made out of Val And Tine. The common sense tells that it is a partnership of two individuals. Val is a name of a man and Tine is a woman name. But to the extent that whether homogeneous is acceptable here, the answer is it depends. Just look at the names and that's it. In other words you don't have the choice.

Thus, Valentine is applicable only for a partnership consisting of a man and a woman or vice versa. The celebrate Valentine's Day alone is not correct.

-Arnwitz

When we look at the vast sky during the night time, we could find among the numerous stars above, a star that is unique to all maybe it is the brightest star. When you have many friends, there is also one of them that you feel very close. You tend to move closer to him/her but take note slowly because you may collide to each other and that would be a big bang...toink! Anyways the same thing when I was attending a seminar with lots of speakers giving us lots of words and messages but there is one statement that struck me most. Professor Acosta from Asian Institute of Management uttered such word "Loving is about understanding". What does this mean? and how it works for us? He added because you cannot love a person or a thing if you don't understand him/it. Wow! What a beautiful message!

Actually, he was talking about the environmental issues happening nowadays while he faced the future economists of the country. He presented the different slides containing the scenarios of Global warming, pollution, climate change etc. In addition, he specifically concentrates on the Philippine condition. Our recent experiences with too much heat outside and the peculiar appearances and events to the parts of country are the indicators. Philippine as he always said "one of the hotspots". The future of the Filipinos would be dark if we failed to do a better response on the existing problems. The point he was trying to establish is we need to care and love our environment while we are working on our everyday living. How do we do this?

We need to understand our environment. Our understanding is the key to the answers, to the solutions of these problems. Moreover, hopefully it is not only to words and theories but also into actions. Even simple actions is enough to help the problems like recycling or reusing if we deal with plastics usually and renewing perhaps to appropriate companies. The solutions are in our hands. We just have to mobilize our hands by our understanding. Thus, as a member of an organization, a citizen of the country and a public concern of the international environment, we can do something for the good of our planet and the hope of our future and the generations to come. Let us begin to understand so that we can also begin to love. Life is of no sense if we do not know how to love. Show your love, I will show my love and we will show our love and everything would be fine. Right?

What is the hottest today is not anymore about those girls dancing in the bar nor about the bias news in the media and never the unfair cycle of commerce and trade in business etc. but exactly the extreme heat coming from the sun all day, all over the places of the globe. So when you get out from the roofs of your home or whatever building you belong you can no longer feel the contained-vitamins heat of the sun that would penetrate and react into your skin otherwise you will be burning. It is really hot. This scenario is of course experience not only by human being but all living organisms as well as non-living things. Well it is not really a big deal for some people who are living almost all the time inside the air conditioned rooms but who could say that they will just live there forever. I mean all of us need the outside or the environmental resources for our survival. And besides even if they are always inside the building but still it is sure that they could really feel the bad situation outside. And also other organisms cannot hide themselves. The point is all of us are affected wherever we live in because we cannot detach our self from the environment. We need food coming from trees, waters coming from watersheds that are also come from rainfall, lands for planting of trees etc. So, the moment this environment which is our source of needs although via technology we are not anymore directly dependent on it, be destroyed, ruined and damaged we are too. The magic beans of San Goku is not yet invented concretely where we could just take one of those beans and for 10 years we don't need food? Oh come on! Let's be real. That thing existed only in the imagination of the director of the cartoon movie and we are not. We exist in the reality and we are supposed to protect and preserve our environment in order for us to survive and the generations to come. Our next generations hopefully can still utilize this resourceful planet full of beauty and goodness. The claim of many scientists is not just an inconvenient truth but a reality; claimate change. Climate change is now in our environment. It was not gradually coming but rapid. So, we are in the danger. Also the people next to us are in the danger and our mother earth is practically already endangered. Believe it! It is Claimate Change.