Nazer's back-to-school prize

photo of 13 year-old Nazer, from Tui, Daguioman Abra, before his right eye operation under UPIS 88 batchmate Doc. Rainier's caring hands.
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he left Q.C. last night, his vision, 20/20 left eye, 25/20 right eye. a big achievement indeed when before his second operation, his right eye can only sense movement in bright light. the doctor, some friends, Nazer's parents and myself pulled together the amount to cover for operating room, anesthesia and other expenses.

he had his first operation in Vigan. his parents sold their farms for 44,000 pesos; but the hospital bill went way beyond this figure. weeks after his first, Nazer's right eye developed white tissue inside that blocked his vision.

more than a month of stay in QC, Nazer finally goes back to Abra to catch up with school.

that stray pellet bullet from a kid toy gun gave Nazer and his parents so much trouble. toy guns are real and not things to play with.

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Oh Freddie: kill the sinners, rape the virgins

After viewing all these Freddie films, a viewer can easily conclude that each movie
and all films as a whole fulfill a moralist agenda. Freddie was a kid murderer before he was burned to death by neighborhood parents. In all movies, he was also called the mass murderer of innocent children, a label
likewise used on abortion practitioners; Freddie's murder weapon was a glove of metal-blade fingernails, symbolic of instruments used by abortionists; at the same time, the metal fingernails could be an allusion to the fingernails of fetuses or unborn children.

In all movies, Freddie was a nightmare to the impure, and killed them too--teens who engage in premarital sex, youth delinquents, drug addicts, and the irresponsible adults and parents. In all the movies, Freddie is killed by the pure--the virgins, the loving and pure mother, the innocent kid and the unborn-- usually garbed in white, a symbol of purity. However, as the valiant virgin gives in to immorality, she is successfully killed by Freddie in the next movie.

In all films, Freddie's consistent proclamation was that he is evil himself. Evil is a result of humanity's evil deeds. Evil is immorality. Immorality results in death. A death of an immoral person ends up in hell.

Freddie was the unholy outcome of a rape of a Catholic nun by a thousand maniacs. The killing of Elm street kids was the karmic result when parents took justice into their own hands by killing the murderer.

In the first movie, Freddie was black. His skin was black and his 'lingo' was black.
However, the filmmakers, perhaps realizing the probable backlash of this characterization, transformed him into a white man from the second movie onwards.

Fire and snakes, elements of hell and expulsion from the garden of Eden, weaved through the stories. The Christian cross repulsed Freddie, while the physical christian church consistently
delivered him to his end. At every end was the precaution to be watchful. To never ever sleep is a biblical message to never give in to impurity.

Jason vs. Freddie was the eight, culminating and top grosser film for all the Freddie Krueger movies. The movie grossed $82,622,655.00 in the United States and $114,326,122.00 worldwide. Total gross worldwide of all eight films reached $330,288,328.00 (source).

Jason vs. Freddie brought the moral of the story to a much contemporary level. Evil is no longer just in one's dreams, it has truly come and has an ally. The ally does not kid around like Freddie. It will not listen to your arguments, you would not be able to control it with your mind, and you do not have to remember to give life to it. It just keeps on coming, and it has Freddie's head with it.

Fear is such an effective tool of repression.