DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares I’ve been with the Manila Bulletin for more than half of my life, and I’m still learning new things in the changing landscapes of media. I’ve enjoyed the lessons of change, many times trying to understand new technology, sometimes resisting it, and...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Many people have found their routines completely changed by the now-standard-act of going into isolation after getting exposed to a person who tests positive for COVID-19. It may sound like a break or a holiday to some, a work-from-home arrangement to...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares As relief efforts — the delivery of food and essential items packages — continue, the programs to rebuild houses and restore livelihood in communities have already started at the headquarters of the Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC) in Bacolod City....
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Today is a good day to start a promise – to do at least one act of random kindness. It can be an act of generosity, like paying for the purchase of a poor old person in a drug store. It can be an act to give joy, like buying a can of ice cream for a family...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares It’s not the ideal time to do a long road trip but if you have to visit the family patriarch, it is the ideal way with today’s limited travel restrictions that require minimal travel documents. We opted to drive to Bacolod City from Quezon City weeks...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Camping, once the outdoor activity sought only by adventurers, has become popular among families, many of them first-timers. Once upon a time in elementary and high school, boys and girls scouts went through some form of camping like a growing-up rite. ...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Did you know that there are more than 200 fuel vending machines around the country, mostly along the coast of Oriental Mindoro, Siargao, and Panay? These are machines that dispense fuel to counter the “bote-bote” sale of fuel in far-flung areas....
DRIVING THOUGHTS A man whose life story is the stuff that legends are made of, quietly passed away two days before National Heroes Day. The man is Silvino J. Gallardo, better known as “Makaw” to friends and “Macao” to family and friends from college from Negros Island, and perhaps in the...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares With the lockdowns that’s stretched on for more than a year, I can only dream of the forest and the mountains where I get my energy. There, I would walk under the canopy of a rainforest, undeterred by my age (I am a senior citizen); or by the working...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares There is no doubt, the vaccine pass is here. There seems to be no more need for legislators and concerned groups to discuss the legality or logic of requiring a document showing one has been vaccinated to enter establishments, cross borders, and participate...
Driving Thoughts Pinky Concha Colmenares In the eighties, the image of a malnourished child in Negros Occidental woke the nation to the problem of severe malnutrition in the country. I think of that image today, as Nutrition Month comes to an end because I had covered many nutrition feeding...
DRIVING THOUGHTS This will be a good time for local government units to document the best practices of their barangays in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19. These can be shared with other LGUs which can localize the practices to fit their communities. More than a year after the World Health...
