Raymundo W. Lo, MD, FPSP
All circus, no bread
December 16, 2024 9:33 pm
For weeks and even months now, we’ve been witness to political spectacles as in hearings in the senate and congress. First was the investigation of POGOs, which stirred quite a hornet’s nest, leading to the President banning all of them. Then it shifted to an investigation of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, who is apparently a Chinese mole of sorts.
Brain rot versus brat
December 09, 2024 4:02 pm
Recently, Oxford Dictionary announced its word of the year: brain rot, noting its new prominence in 2024 and increased frequency of use to 230 percent from the year before.
Hypertension: Prelude to dementia
December 02, 2024 4:31 pm
Recently, we got news that my cousin was diagnosed with dementia, forcing her only daughter, a nurse, to take leave from work and fly from Australia to be with her mother. This cousin of mine was someone I grew up with and it pains me to know that she is mentally deteriorating.
Climate SOS
November 18, 2024 4:02 pm
Here I am in Christchurch, on the South Island, the pristine and green Garden City of New Zealand, preparing to return home to the Philippines, with the news that Super Typhoon Man-yi a.k.a. Pepito, just made landfall in Luzon, wondering if my flight will be able to land safely in Manila.
New age in America?
November 11, 2024 4:08 pm
The stunning electoral victory of Donald J. Trump has left the world in a cloud of anxiety and nervous speculation. In his campaign speeches, he kept emphasizing “America First” and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). It will usher in a new age of isolationism not unlike that seen in the early 1910s and in the 1930s.