Empathy and intersubjectivity
IF WE TRULY want to be genuine friends and brothers and sisters to everybody else, we need to practice empathy first. Hopefully that gesture...
The stubborn fame whore
I GUESS you can call me a fame whore. I actually value recognition most over free time, and money.
Negros gears for grand festivity
THE Panaad Festival, which is dubbed “the mother of all festivals” of the 32 towns and cities in the province of Negros Occidental,...
The Philippine economy, simply put
IN JANUARY this year, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia announced that the Philippine economy in 2019 had grown by 5.9 percent, or below the...
Good governance in financial institutions
BANGKO Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) seems to be expanding its scope and has made appointments to roles that I was not previously aware that...
Filipinos are all over the world, but…
IT IS INTERESTING to note that Filipinos are almost everywhere in the world. We did not expect that Wuhan, China has many Filipinos working and...
Expect to get dirty
IF WE have to be practical in this life, exerting effort to attend and resolve all our issues and challenges, not to mention, to...
Present reality far from theory of participatory democracy
IN THEORY, democracy is really supposed to be participatory. The Constitution and many laws are in place to make that possible, but up to...
‘Too hot to handle’
YES, THE 220 volts running down Panay Electric Co.’s (PECO) electrical cable can be quite hot when exposed and when you touch an open...
The Manila Massacres
SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, the battle to re-take Manila from Japanese hands (Feb. 3 to Feb. 29, 1945) was raging.
