DRIVING THOUGHTS It’s summer and many will be planning trips out of the city, or the country. Just a reminder: you don’t need a passport to find paradise—it’s right here at home. With more than 7,000 islands rich in culture, history, and natural wonders, the Philippines offers...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Ask a young person what was the last book he or she read, aside from a school text book, and you’ll likely get a surprised stare. That’s what I often get when I ask that question to an applicant for a job or for on-the-job-training. A few of the book titles mentioned were...
DRIVING THOUGHTS During the holidays, try camping. Drive out of the city and stay overnight, not in a resort, but at a campsite with basic amenities that will likely be inconvenient and uncomfortable to most people. The rewards are many, some intangible, but will give you a different kind of...
Timmy De Leon, marketing director of Astara Ph with Peugeot, GAC, JMC and JAC auto brands. In the motoring beat – that glamours coverage where one can drive the latest cars for the weekend, and test drive vehicles in exotic places around the world – one name marks a writer’s place. The name...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Yesterday, Feb. 2, Manila Bulletin celebrated its 123rd anniversary. Before 2020, that day was just another day that we marked with a thick print edition supplement, and when social media came, with special videos and bits of history which were recorded in...
Today, 36 years ago, a plain housewife was sworn in as the 11 th president of the Republic of the Philippines, after a bloodless revolution that gathered hundreds of thousands of Filipinos along a stretch of EDSA, Metro Manila’s main thoroughfare. The plain housewife who would lead the...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Thirty-six years after the EDSA People Power Revolution is a good time to think about the freedoms that bloodless revolution won for the Filipinos. I had lived through the martial law years and I know what freedoms we lost then. That’s why my husband and...
