WALA LANG As Netflix addicts know, the Vanderbilts and Astors of New York’s Gilded Age outdid each other with Fifth Avenue mansions, Newport cottages, yachts, and European noblemen for sons-in-law. Their 19th-century lowland Pinoy equivalents were small fry in comparison but were just as...
The China Bank restoration project WALA LANG Chinatown is jumping. New buildings are up and more are rising. The ultramodern Binondo-Intramuros bridge has opened (to be sure, over the objections of heritage people). The latest is the magnificent restoration of the China Bank Building at the...
WALA LANG A few days after President Ferdinand E. Marcos was flown to Hawaii and Mrs. Corazon C. Aquino took over in February 1986, members of the Marcos Cabinet led by Prime Minister Cesar E.A. Virata called on Mrs. Aquino. That was the last time the entire Marcos Cabinet were together. Lawyer...
WALA LANG I spent so much time on election night keeping track of the count and along the way reading Facebook posts of both Pinks and Reds. The temperature was obviously high, carried over from the campaign period when strangers insulted strangers, friends unfriended friends, siblings disowned...
WALA LANG After all the promises, denunciations, allegations, fake and genuine news, rumors, threats, protests, whoever is today’s victor will not have an easy six years ahead. The Makati Business Club issued a statement last week on where we are and what lies ahead. So many companies closed...
WALA LANG Traditionally, men are supposed to be the breadwinner, decision maker, defender of home and family while women are supposed to be pious and obedient wives, accomplished mothers, household managers, and cooks. Elite women spent their time reciting the rosary, embroidering barò sleeves and...
WALA LANG Even before the last galleon sailed in 1815, the Spanish colonial government had begun to explore ways to achieve economic growth. Spain itself had fallen behind other European countries and was seeking ways to stimulate economic and intellectual development. Among other things, the...
WALA LANG The 2022 OS World University Rankings surveyed and ranked universities worldwide on the basis of academic reputation (40 percent), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty/student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international faculty ratio (five percent), and...
WALA LANG I was a bit surprised to discover that many young people don’t even know the names of their grandparents, let alone what they did. I was an inquisitive kid myself and Lola Trining was on the garrulous side so we got along well. She didn’t go to the Luneta when Rizal executed because...
WALA LANG This month we commemorate the 501st anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan’s arrival, highlighted by an exhibition in the National Museum, El Viaje mas Largo – La Primera Vuelta del Mundo. The festivities center on “the longest journey, the first circumnavigation of the globe.” Nothing...
WALA LANG There were books everywhere when I was growing up. Tatay taught English at Mapa High (Washington SyCip and Fred Velayo told me they were his students) and Nanay history and social studies at Torres High. Between the two of them there was no shortage of reading material in the house,...
WALA LANG Gasoline prices have skyrocketed and it looks like more bad news is coming. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III is quoted as predicting the economic impact of the Russia-Ukraine War: Inflation. Oil and food prices are expected to go up as Russia is the largest exporter of natural gas...
