Regel Javines has been writing since 2011 publishing news and commentaries on politics, governance, and various pressing social issues of interest.
While working as a full-time employee, he juggled his career as a textbook editor with contributing articles to global news media platforms as a stringer at Yahoo! Contributor Network writing commentaries on politics and governance, and as a citizen journalist at Allvoices in 2012. Both these global news media outfits are now defunct.
Regel is a passer of the Philippine government’s Career Service Eligibility – Professional Level which he took in July 2009 while working as an editor in a book publishing company. This Professional Eligibility allows the holder for permanent appointment in a government service.
Consistent valedictorian, campus journalist
Regel Javines graduated class valedictorian both in elementary and high school. In college, he joined a progressive student publication while he was just starting off living an iskolar ng bayan life as a freshman at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP)-Taguig Campus. It is one of the campuses of the largest university in the Philippines based on student population—the Polytechnic University of the Philippines—for decades and history, it has been called the “bastion of student activism.”
Eventually, Regel became the editor-in-chief of the official student publication of the PUP-Taguig Campus, The Chronicler.
Despite battling financial struggle on the one hand and confronting a series of campus repression and filial obligations on the other hand, Regel finished his bachelor’s degree in Office Administration on time in 2007. However, he was not able to attend the commencement exercises due to an unfortunate event that happened to him almost a month before the graduation day.
MBA, M.A. Philosophy student
In 2014, he took the PUP Graduate Studies Entrance Examinations (PUPGSEE), passed, and was accepted to enroll at the PUP Graduate School to take a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Marketing Management. Due to a lack, primarily, of sufficient financial funds, he decided to leave the graduate program after a semester.
Then, while Regel took his vacation in his hometown in Leyte in 2022, he applied for a master’s degree education and finally accepted to take the Master of Arts in Philosophy (M.A. Philosophy) at the University of San Carlos, a Catholic educational institution in Cebu City regarded nowadays by no less than the university itself as “one of the most respected higher education institutions in the Philippines.”
While attempting to understand both Life and Existence through the lens of gnostic spirituality and ontological mathematics, he decided to take an absence without leave from his M.A. after the two semesters, and at present, fixing things up and figuring them out and things in-between about Life and Existence.
You may send an email to Regel Javines either at rqjavines@gmail.com or at regel.javines@philippinepundit.com.