Artwork by Ariana Maralit Give Dad a gift of creativity, cool, and adventure with hot gadgets from The SM Store. Better still, shop from your home, and have them delivered to him on Father’s Daythrough The SM Store’s Call to Deliver service. Surprise him with light and compact drones for aerial...
More than being stiffly called the provider and protector of the family, fathers actually play the roles as their children’s real-life hero, role model, and a reliable support system. While fathers ultimately play a huge part in their son’s and daughter’s lives, it is usually the constant...
Our lives have been changed by the coronavirus pandemic. The dreaded disease have separated families and friends in ways they never experienced before. It has changed the way people celebrate events and holidays -- and that includes Father's Day. Three Filipinos share what they miss the most...
His dad carried him on his shoulders, now he carries his children and an entire city on his “I know to have nothing,” recalls the 46-year-old mayor of Manila. To a great extent, this sums up the motivations behind what Francisco Domagoso, more popularly known as Isko Moreno or these days simply...
Life will always throw a curveball when you least expect it—and it would always be for the best, in hindsight. For San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora, who just graduated from De La Salle University, he was enjoying life and basketball. Fresh from winning back-to-back University Athletic Association of...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng While the word fodder is defined as food, especially as referring to dry hay or feed for cattle and livestock, it’s slang usage is saying something is fodder for a particular purpose – and what you really mean is that it’s...
Like most other countries, the Philippines is celebrating Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. This is despite the fact that in 1998, President Joseph Ejercito Estrada transferred the observance of both Father’s Day and Mother’s Day to the first Monday of December, thereby superseding...
Our loved ones may slowly be dying of sadness before they are claimed by COVID By Mj Quiambao Reyes AFTERNOON BEER Tatay and Nanay with some of their grandkids April 1st marks the day my Tatay’s heart stopped—though it was much earlier than April Fools’ Day when he was killed by the pandemic....
As the nation commemorated the second Philippine Social Workers’ Day, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista thanked the country’s social work practitioners for dedicating their lives to empower poor, marginalized and vulnerable communities....
It’s easy (or at least, easier) to define mothers: She is the woman who birthed you. Or, if that person by chance wasn’t around, the woman who raised you like her own. A newborn instantly seeks out her mother to suckle or seek warmth, in humans or in the animal kingdom. The bond begins the...
A son reflects on what it means to be a father KILLER LOVE Ilongot hunting party In this day and age, some might argue that fatherhood is an obsolete social construct. While I don’t fully agree with the direction such arguments often take, I won’t deny where they come, from children abused or...
“This pandemic has taught us a lot.” A line that has been said and heard a thousand times over the past year. Darius Jose Delgado is no different. Being a father to a 17-year-old boy, he’s had his fair share of realizations as he got to spend more time with his family this lockdown. His son...
