MEDIUM RARE Ninety-seven percent of the time I don’t envy the President for his perks, privileges, and power. The remaining three percent is reserved for how I wish I could, like him, zip into and out of our airport and into an airplane, skipping the hundred-and-one steps that we mortals are heir...
MEDIUM RARE In a greet-and-meet with the Filipino community in Washington, D.C., PBBM invited them to go home to a bet-ter airport, roads, government, and internet. This was after an eight-hour power outage at our airport’s Terminal 3 canceled/delayed 50 flights and pun-ished some 9,000...
MEDIUM RARE If you mix one part oxygen with two parts hydrogen, H2O, you produce water. How much? A drip, a drop, a river? Just because you can afford your water bill, you’ve no right to waste water when the dams and reservoirs are about to look like the bottom of a very dry well. We hear calls,...
Medium Rare For all our avowed love for and life-and-death attachment to our cellphones, what was so hard about meeting the SIM registration period of 180 days? As usual, the powers-that-be gave in to the clamor for an extension, so now we have 90 more days to obey a law that takes but minutes to...
The Philippines and China gave contrasting positions over which one was to blame for the recent near-collision involving the Philippine and Chinese vessels in the Ayungin Shoal. The foreign ministries of both countries aired their respective positions over the dangerous incident less than a day...
It remains unclear what kind of "evolution" President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. would be taking up with President Joe Biden about the Philippines and US mutual defense treaty when they meet in Washington next week. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang)...
A meeting with United States President Joe Biden will be President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s first order of business upon his arrival in Washington next week. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Ma. Teresita Daza said Marcos...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday urged China to respect the Philippines' rights over the West Philippine Sea and honor the freedom of navigation after a Chinese vessel dangerously blocked a Philippine vessel in the Ayungin Shoal. Ma. Teresita Daza, DFA spokesperson, issued a...
MEDIUM RARE To quote a balikbayan Alex-in-Wonderland, “Some of your malls are much nicer than what we have back home,” home being the great United States of America. I remembered AiW upon stepping into the mall housing Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Makati last week. Another excuse to...
MEDIUM RARE As every culture vulture knows, Cultural Center of the Philippines won’t be alive with the sound of music, drama, and applause for the next two years. The 52-year-old lady needs a bit of cosmetic surgery to keep in step with performers’ demand for a home worthy of their talents...
MEDIUM RARE The last time I was with Boysie Villavicencio was four months ago, December last year. That was when I lost another friend with the same initials, Butch Valdes. (Another coincidence, the two BV’s lived a few blocks from each other.) Boysie, 73, started his rise to fame as a fashion...
MEDIUM RARE With the merger of Development Bank of the Philippines and Land Bank, it was a natural question to ask Tessie Sy-Coson if a union of Banco de Oro and China Bank was in the offing. “No,” she said, as all around us alumnae of Immaculate Conception Academy reveled in the happy...
