IT'S THE SMALL THINGS I write this on Palm Sunday which is actually the official start of Holy Week. This year, it also happens to fall two days after my first church wedding anniversary. And although admittedly (and embarrassingly) it actually slipped my mind until greetings from loved ones came...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS Holy week is upon us, and so is election fever. Thirty days to go, and campaign period in full blast, people are most definitely hyped! With the excitement comes some frenzy, and unfortunately, toxicity as well. Exchanges – both pleasant and unpleasant – are...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS And just like that, it’s April. In a blink of an eye, the first quarter of the year has just passed us by. With the semblance of the old normal returning, days are definitely going by much quicker, and we are once again loading them up like we used to. Gone are the days of...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS I write this on the third week of women’s month, and on the 14th year since the passing of a woman who significantly shaped my life. I now realize more than ever how apt it is that a woman who had shaped so much of who I am today celebrates her birthday in heaven on the...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS I n continuing on with Women’s Month, I too am writing another piece themed around women. This time, closer to home – women, and how I view them, and their roles in the Philippines. To be quite honest, because I was raised in a very matriarchal family, I did not realize...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan This year will mark Agriculture magazine’s 25th anniversary. The magazine’s first issue appeared on the newsstands in October 1997 with the headlines “Alfredo Rivera: He developed his market before going into full production” and “El Nino and our Fisheries.”...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS Ash Wednesday this past week marked the start of the Lenten season for Catholics. For actively practicing ones, here begins the meatless Fridays, and an act of sacrifice to practice for 40 days. More often than not, we tend to define sacrifice as the act of giving up something...
New K-pop boy band Tempest’s debut album took first place on two music charts in South Korea. Tempest, composed of Lew, Hyungseop, Hanbin, Hyuk, Eunchan, Hwarang and Taerae, made their debut on March 2 with the album “It's Me, It's We” containing five songs including the carrier track “Bad...
Korean drama “It’s Okay to Not be Okay” star Seo Ye-ji has apologized for the 2021 controversy involving her former boyfriend, actor Kim Jung-hyun, and Girls’ Generation’s Seohyun, who both starred in the 2018 drama “Time.” Seo Ye-ji issued the apology on Feb. 27, two days after the...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS As love month came to an end, it did so with a bang – literally, and sadly, with Russia invading Ukraine this week. Though the tension has been building up in the past months, we have been hopeful that violence would not be resorted to. Even if this unfortunate situation is...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS The wonders of how much a two year (and counting) pandemic has changed not only the lives of many, but most especially the perspective with which a lot of us now choose to live, and see life through is astounding. Truly, among many other things, we have learned to appreciate...
Badjao Girl Rita Aviola "Badjao Girl" Rita Gaviola proved that she has the wits aside from her alluring beauty as she was crowned the "Showtime Sexy Babe" daily winner last Thursday (Feb.17). The 18-year-old former PBB Teens housemate revealed to the "It's Showtime hosts that she joined the segment...
