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Earth Hour 2010

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A year after we topped Earth Hour’s list by being the country with the most number of cities that participated in the event in 2009, we appeal to you once again to join us for this year’s Bloggers Unite Earth Hour 2010.

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Don’t miss this chance to participate in this year’s Earth Hour event happening all over the world this Saturday, March 27, 2010. Switch off your lights at exactly 8:30PM until 9:30PM (local time) and show your support for the biggest socio-political action in the world.

Earth Hour is an annual worldwide event that aims to raise awareness and active participation in the “healing” of Mother Earth.

Your light switch is your vote — against continuous destruction and abuse of the world’s natural resources but most of all, it is a vote against apathy.

With the disappointing result of the recent Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, it behooves us to pressure our governments for a legal and binding agreement towards “climate change cooperation” that will offer support for highly-vulnerable countries like ours in times of impending natural and man-made calamities. It also seeks to commit high-carbon producing countries to a legal pledge of reducing their carbon footprint.

Charge your cellphone and cameras early and document this event wherever you are. Encourage people in your community to participate.

For us in the Philippines, specially our brothers and sisters in Mindanao who have been struggling with 12-hour rotating brownouts, our participation is also a show of support for them.

Earth Hour is not about saving electricity — it’s about pushing for real, long-term solutions about healing Mother Earth and averting the calamitous effects of climate change.

Vote Earth. Switch off. One hour. One hope for a brighter future for us and our children.

Let me know what you think… :)

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● About Me
Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera Marmol aka RJ Marmol profile picture

I’m RJ Marmol — writer, musician, and independent creator based in Manila.

I write songs, essays, and books about the messy overlap between money, overwhelm, creativity, identity, and rebuilding. Much of my work circles around what happens when life stops feeling manageable — and how we try to think clearly, make decisions, and keep moving anyway.

I’m also the author of Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur, a nonfiction book published under Steady Hand Press. The paperback edition is listed under my full publishing name, Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera.

On the music side, I release work as HeyRJ. On the writing side, this site is where I gather my books, essays, notes, and whatever I’m building next.

Music

HeyRJ is my sonic soul project. I create raw, minimalist-style and deeply personal music interpretations that feel like a late-night conversation with your truest self.

By blending lo-fi acoustic textures with poetic honesty, my work explores love, loss, grief, healing, and the quiet in-betweens of life. Each song is a letter — a journal entry — a gentle companion for when the world feels too loud or too quiet.

While my catalogue began with intimate cover renditions, my work is increasingly being shaped by original writing, drawing from years of poems, lived questions, and emotional survival.

“Stuck Home Syndrome” released on March 20, 2026 is my first original 20-track album written during a period when time felt compressed and days began to blur into each other. The songs came from sitting with thoughts that had nowhere else to go — unfiltered, repetitive, and sometimes uncomfortable. It’s a concept album that isn’t built around singles or polish. It’s closer to a continuous inner monologue, recorded with minimal production and very little ornamentation and meant to be listened to as one cohesive body of work. The goal wasn’t to resolve anything, only to document how it felt while it was happening.

On May 29, 2026 I released new original singles – “Rapturous”, “Uh Huh”, “Look At You”, “All That” and “Blew Print”. I continue to release both original and cover songs and intend to so for as long as I can so check back every once in a while — you might. just find something you’ll like.

For business inquiries relating to music, email me at: heyrjmusic[at]gmail[dot]com or my personal email at: rjmarmol[at]gmail[dot]com.

Books

Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur

A nonfiction book about what debt does to the mind — and how to begin functioning again when financial stress has made everything feel blurred, urgent, and overwhelming.

Rather than treating debt only as a financial math problem, the book explores the emotional and cognitive realities of financial distress: shame, decision fatigue, avoidance, panic, relationship strain, and the difficulty of making sound decisions while mentally depleted.

Published under Steady Hand Press. It’s available worldwide in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon. Bookstores and libraries can also be order it wholesale via Ingram.

Contact

For book-related inquiries, media requests, bookstore questions, or discussion-group invitations, you can reach me through the contact page on this site or send me an email to rjmarmol[at]gmail[dot]com or hello[at]steadyhandpress.com

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