It’s the Philippine’s Independence Day today, and to be honest, had I not heard my mother’s voice in their room when I went down to get water, I totally wouldn’t have remembered. I guess it’s just lost it’s meaning, if it ever had one to me at all. I’ve never really understood it, I suppose, and I’ve always went behind the excuse of being too young to understand anything. Well, I can’t really hide behind that excuse now, can I? We were required to take this subject in school, the Rizal subject, where we learned about him—his history, his background,…