ENDEAVOR After graduating from college almost five decades ago, I began working as editor of a magazine for bank employees. But it’s my vocation as a teacher that truly defines my work history. I write on the eve of the global observance of World Teacher’s Day that was proclaimed by...
ENDEAVOR Recalling the music of one’s youthful years, I have realized, is one way of muting, or softening, the harsher echoes of past events that persist in one’s memory. Intermittent episodes of Last Song Syndrome, or LSS, serve as a healing balm, a feel-good experience. You'll find...
ENDEAVOR Connecting the dots, or making sense of what has been, is an exercise in hindsight which, paradoxically, provides the clearest of all vision. As the Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard framed it appropriately: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must always be lived...
ENDEAVOR Where were you when martial law was declared in the Philippines in September 1972? This is a query that could be answered by those like me who were college students in the preceding years, 1969, 1970, and 1971, when I was a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior at the University of the...
ENDEAVOR Every week, a Dulugang Bayan (literally, Town Roundup) is held in a chosen barangay in Calamba City, Laguna. Sponsored by the local government unit (LGU), the assembly enables citizens to seek free legal assistance for addressing their grievances and for expediting processes that could...
ENDEAVOR Judging by the heavy influx last Monday of those who filed their certificates of candidacy for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BKSE) on Oct. 30, 2023, there is a high level of interest and enthusiasm for political and civic involvement among Filipinos. According to the...
ENDEAVOR As the FIBA World Cup Championship unfolds at the Philippines Arena tomorrow, Baby Boomers like me could not help but reminisce how basketball was a significant aspect of our growing-up years. The Philippines also hosted the FIBA World Cup in 1978, at the Araneta Coliseum, where we placed...
ENDEAVOR In my boyhood days, I became aware of what the big city is like, as my parents took us along with them on bus rides along what was then called Highway 54, that brought us from our residence in Makati to their places of work in Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. The important...
ENDEAVOR At this year’s graduation at the University of the Philippines Diliman, the number of honor graduates was, indeed, very high: 2,243 or nearly 69 percent out of 3,359 graduates; 305 of them summa cum laude, 1,196 magna cum laude; and 742 cum laude. In 2022, there were 1,433 honor...
ENDEAVOR “We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society and establish a government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our...
ENDEAVOR President Ferdinand R. Marcos ended his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on an uplifting note. He extolled the Filipinos whose hard work, dedication, and integrity have enabled them to excel across many fields of endeavors worldwide: “My confidence in our future (is) grounded in...
ENDEAVOR Years ago, I experienced the vitality of Panay Island. I flew into Roxas City in Capiz to fulfill a Rotary speaking engagement, then made a road trip to Kalibo, Aklan for the return flight as I had to be back in Manila on the same day, owing to pressing government duties. I had visited...
