My Redroom URL

• http://www.redroom.com/member/rickyrivera

About Me

• I can't seem to detach myself from my political self. Whenever I start writing lifestyle pieces, the ink dries out. I don't know. Maybe I'm meant to write dreams, visions, and paradigms that create butterflies.

Relationship Status

• Married to a neurotic pretty young thing who seems unable to detach from the past.

Family

• Lovely wife with 3 kids.

Interests & Hobbies

• i paint. i blog. i browse the web. i read new stuff. like theories, especially quantum physics and astrobiology. 

  i create poetry and would love publishing my works someday. 

Favorite Books

• "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, " The Poverty of Philosophy" by Marx, books and works of Karl Popper, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietsche, Paul Coelho, "100 years of Solitude" by Marquez, Joseph Scrumpeter, the Bible, The Noble Qu'ran, works and books on Quantum Physics, works and books about Greek mythology and Greek wars, books about famous men, like Alexander the Great (love it!), Adolf Hitler, Mohandas Gandhi, Malcolm X, Che Guevarra, Mao Zedong (I love his memoirs), Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Karl Popper, George Soros, Historical books of Spengler, Max Weber, Krippendorf, Guy Kawasaki, Al Ries, Jay Levinson, The Three Kingdoms, I Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Book of the Dead, etc.

Favorite Authors

• George Soros, Karl Popper, Paulo Coelho, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Friedrich Engels, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber, Schoepenhauer, Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Mohandas Gandhi, Karl Krippendorpf, Oswald Spengler, Joseph Scrumpeter, Al Ries, Jay Levinson, Nietsche, Poe, George Orwell, Richard Wagner, and many more I forgot.

What I'm Reading

• "The Origin of Brands" by Al Ries. "The Ten Thousand" by Michael Curtis Ford. "Guts!" by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg. "The Reengineering Revolution" by Michael Hammer

WORK

• My work involves business development and marketing. However, I spent years as a journalist, as a Public Relations man, as a Product Development manager and as a branding specialist.

Web Links

• New Philippine Revolution
• The Pinoy Observer
• Spin Blaster
• Redbluethoughts
• Rebel Pen

EDUCATION

UPCOMING WORK

• I'm collating all my best blog entries from the New Philippine Revolution (http://newphilrevolution.blogspot.com), Redbluethoughts (http://redbluethoughts.today.com), Rebel Pen (http://rebelpen.wordpress.com), and PinoyObserver (http://pinoyobserver.wordpress.com)

INFLUENCES

• I remember being impressed by Frank Kafka's work especially Metamorphosis and George Orwell's "The Farm". I also like Schopenhaeur, Nietsche, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Al Ries, Paulo Coelho, Immanuel Kant, Richard Wagner, Krippendorf, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Hitler's "Mein Kampf", Karl Popper, George Soros, the Bible, the writers of the Noble Qu'ran, the writer of Three Kingdoms, the writer of Tao Te Ching, the writer of I Ching, the writer of the Book of War, Spengler, Joseph Morrow. For novelists, Mario Puzo, Stephen King, Poe. For scriptwriters and stage writers, Shakespeare, Miller.

CAUSES I SUPPORT

• The Green Revolution, Open democracy, Marxism, Islamic liberation, Liberation of the Human Soul from dictatorial regimes

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

• I finished my baccalaureate degree from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, specializing in History and Political Science. I also enrolled in two prestigious law schools, San Beda College of Law and the Ateneo School of Law, but did'nt finish it. Because, against my parents' wishes, I continued my life as a journalist.

AGENTS

• I don't have an agent.

HOW TO CONTACT MY AGENT

• Well, you can call me at +632 8188496, if you want.