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...
There’s another Diokno in the legal profession. Senatorial candidate and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno congratulated daughter Laya Elena for passing the 2020-2021 Bar Exam, the results of which were published on Tuesday, April 12. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno and daughter Laya Elena (Photo...
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...
WALA LANG General Pedro G. Dumol invited me to be on the Board of the National Electrification Administration when I was B.A. Professor at U.P. That was in the early 1970s when NEA, newly created by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was actively organizing cooperatives to bring electricity to...
WALA LANG Last Will and Testament concept. Fountain pen, seal on desk It’s depressing. So often in recent months, word arrives that a relative or a friend has passed away. Inevitably, this reminds me that I have to think about what I should do about the stuff—books, paintings, santos, papers,...
WALA LANG Sex or money, preferably combined, heats up otherwise ho-hum COVID lockdowns. With titillating peccadillos already taken for granted, it’s really money that raises antennae. Siblings sue each other, children sue wicked madrasta , children sue widowed parent—all over inheritance....
WALA LANG Alone with his flock in a meadow high above the hamlet he called home, a small boy with blue-green eyes sat dreaming of what lay beyond the peaks that surrounded his world. The boy’s papa once took him to the lowlands where he saw the boundless sea, heard screeching seagulls,...
