Jersey Boy, Part 1
FIVE minutes before 9 a.m.
The shop owner is busy minding the counter.
The new coffee orders are brewing behind him.
The lone shop assistant is clearing...
Should PH increase its defense budget?
DURING the World Economic Forum, President Marcos was asked if he would expand the Philippines’ defense budget, just like Japan.
His answer was that there’s...
The self-righteous tend to be fault-finders
THIS OBSERVATION is clearly illustrated many times in the gospel. Many of the leading Jews in the times of Christ did not believe in...
My affinity with the old Bohol capitol building
I HAVEN’T been to museums lately. My feelings are somewhat ambivalent. I miss it and don’t miss it at the same time. Is that...
Brown eyes
IN “BROWN EYES”, a PSN Poetry for Children workshop in celebration of the National Arts Month, participants will be taught how to look, and...
Mahuman pa ayhan?
GINALAUMAN na naton nga amat-amat nga matingala ang mga pumuluyo sa barangay nga may ginapatigayon nga proyekto gikan sa National Task Force to End...
Philippine economy at full throttle
THE PHILIPPINE economy can be likened to a money train—it keeps on expanding robustly and nothing for now can stop it from speeding ahead.
I...
Ang kapalpakan sang gobyerno sa problema sang sibuyas
SA IDALOM sang Free Enterprise provision sang Constitution ginakilala ang “indispensable role” sang pribado nga sektor (Phil. Const. Article II, Section 2).
However, nagapaandam ang...
February write
HERE’S THE thing: I am so ready to write something grand: a novel, a Palanca-quality short story, a collection of poetry, even a screenplay.
I...
ICC and the failed drug war
HAVE the thousands of nanlaban and ghost-rider deaths from 2016 to 2022 resulted in a drug-free Philippines?
In October last year a very young Marcos administration...