Still want to go to Guimaras?
ALMOST
there but not quite. Maybe “not just yet” would probably best describe the
island province of Guimaras as a major tourist destination.
When
the country’s top...
The Bitch is back!
MOI loves
this. The social climbers, the so-called “disente”,
the self-appointed guardians of morality, padres
and madres de cacao, and the
“devotees to the cult of the yellow...
And the transport strike failed as usual …
WELL, it does seem like another exercise in
futility. From the look of things, it was doomed before it even started.
At best, it probably...
Greed and corruption in the time of polio
FRIDAY last week I mentioned in my column that this polio
resurgence, or as the Department of Health (DOH) puts it more emphatically, an
outbreak, could...
Politicizing diseases and epidemics
LET ME park this: Damage Psyche - Psychological
or emotional trauma is damage or injury to the psyche after
living through an extremely frightening or distressing event and may...
‘Don’t eat dog’ is pure hypocrisy
THERE was a time
when eating dogs was an “accepted” – albeit frowned upon and considered
disgusting – practice among the natives in the Cordillera mountains....
Martial Law revisited 2 days after
“My countrymen,
as of the 21st of this month, I signed Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire
Philippines under Martial Law.” –
Ferdinand Marcos, Sept. 21, 1972
IT...
‘Baklang hamburger’
“Gilingin
mo man ‘yan, ang labas niyan baklang hamburger.” – Ricky Reyes
HAVE YOU ever been to those “comedy clubs”? They’re mostly found in
Malate while some...
Melodramatic and amusing
LAST WEEK, Friday to be exact, I had an
interesting chat with Marcelo Ugarte Cacho, lately the Administrative Manager
of Panay Electric Co. a.k.a. PECO. To...
Simply ‘Blue and Lonesome’
LAST WEEK was quite eventful, most notable and really got a lot of
comments on social media and beauty parlors was the statement of ‘80s...