MEDIUM RARE Our Miss Philippines Universe, Atisha Manalo, landed third runnerup. She has stories to tell. . . not now but in due time. Senator Ping Lacson has been approached by persons he did not name who want him to head some kind of a civil-military junta, just in case. Another group would want...
MEDIUM RARE Thirty-three (33) days to Christmas! Our tree is nine years old – 3 plus 3 plus 3 – but it’s only 8 ft tall; I wish it was a nine-footer. It’s been good to us, so I shouldn’t complain. We’re quite sentimental about our tree, even if the three of us at home are no longer...
MEDIUM RARE One month and five days to Christmas! Peace on earth to warring siblings, separated couples, families torn apart for whatever reason or reasons! In Pampanga, the lantern festival beckons. In Tarlac, Belenismo reigns supreme. In Metro Manila’s component cities, the lights on traffic...
MEDIUM RARE Believe it or not, I had my own mini-“Thrilla in Manila” moment in the middle of the “fight of the century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier 50 years and eight days ago, on Oct. 1, 1975. As a member of the free ( 'walang bayad ') press whose seat happened to be at...
MEDIUM RARE Do not be deceived by those pictures showing PBBM serving — not cooking — soup in a soup kitchen to home-less persons in a “Walang Gutom” kitchen in Pasay City. The Chief Executive may not be a certified chef, but he knows how to cook! It’s not a state secret, though not many...
MEDIUM RARE Ten days left in September, with 31 to go in October and 30 in November for a total of 71 days before December comes merrymaking in. No apologies for the longest Christmas celebration in the world! lasting until January 6, feast of the Three Kings. Since last weekend, signs of the...
MEDIUM RARE Just like a typical teenager, Carlo Acutis, the newly canonized saint of the millennium, wore blue jeans and sneakers, usually paired with a t-shirt in a bright color. In his right hand, he carried a video camera, the better to record miracles, especially miracles centered around the...
MEDIUM RARE Maybe what we should do is control those anti-flood projects. So many of them, and still floods remain fashionable, unbeatable, unbearable but profitable for some. As DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon puts it, they’re like some kind of mythical monster, where the more of them you slay the...
MEDIUM RARE ‘Twas a Liberal Party party, if you could call it that, although the event was billed as a book launching. Raul A. Daza, 90, Samar-born, former governor, former congressman, has been a Liberal since 1965. His new books come as a pair: A Life: Years of Crisis, covering the years 1974...
MEDIUM RARE It’s official. Survey shows two out of three respondents describing Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon as likeable. Those three individuals belong to one household — mine — the third member explaining that her YouTube habit includes only people she knows, such as television and...
MEDIUM RARE Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree. — Joyce Kilmer In her time, then first lady Imelda Marcos called coconut the “tree of life” — providing food, water (the cleanest, safest in nature), shelter and construction material. Now, one generation later and...
MEDIUM RARE She was not a typhoon, she was just a severe tropical storm. But wet and wild she was, just the same, at least as far as her effects were felt. “Crising” was nothing like Ondoy or Yolanda even if she unleashed winds and rain that inconvenienced the lot of us driving around Metro...
