MEDIUM RARE What a sight to behold! A highway slicing through the provinces of Central Luzon, on each side of NLEX where nature’s gift of green is decorated by an endless spool of white ribbon -- talahib or cogon? – as their feathery heads sway with the breeze. As far as the eye can see, but...
MEDIUM RARE Come up, come up! That’s what I feel like yelling at lowlanders while Baguio seems to be at its best behavior – fine, fair, beautiful weather, voila!, at temperatures ranging between 18C at bedtime and 23C at naptime, flirting with a sprinkling of spring-like rain while clouds play...
MEDIUM RARE Robina Gokongwei Pe was right all along, 15 or more years ago, when she predicted that pets would be the next great thing to happen to business. Look at them now. Dressed to the nines, in fancy garments with appropriately fancy accessories, participating in weekend promenades at the...
MEDIUM RARE She was the agenda setter of the group, after all she was one of the three Marias in President Cory Aquino’s media office. Those six years as Assistant Secretary gave her access to people in government who were not afraid to share their opinions with journalists who had too many...
MEDIUM RARE What does it take to be a Gringo, “cashiered colonel” and coup leader, former senator, former secretary of Information and Communications Technology, to look so good after these many years? Gringo Honasan, who should be in his ‘70s but doesn’t look it, replied with a broad...
MEDIUM RARE Which television footage did you find more compelling? The airport worker who swallowed dollar bills to hide the theft? Or the baby-faced leader of the allegedly cult-like Socorro Bayanihan Services appearing before the Senate in a state of bewilderment for his 15 minutes of fame? Those...
MEDIUM RARE One fine day in Cubao, we three had lunch in a Chinese restaurant, being in a pre-celebratory mood for the Mid-Autumn Festival, otherwise known as the season for mooncakes. (The brightest full moon of the year will be on view starting at 5:58 p.m. tomorrow, Sept. 29, according to...
MEDIUM RARE In his usual booming voice – a voice as big as his heart, baritone-like – Tony Pastor announced, “I’ve invited an entire barangay,” or 40 persons to fill four tables at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan. Nothing new as far as Dr. Atty. Pastor, music lover and musician,...
MEDIUM RARE A man of peace such as Pope Francis sees dark clouds forecasting World War 3, which he said is now “being fought piecemeal.” Not only the kind fought as a show of military might between nations, but also the catastrophe that awaits humankind due to extreme climate and environmental...
MEDIUM RARE Bullies do their bullying because they’re bigger, bolder, better equipped. But when they go down to the bottom of the sea under cover of darkness and night to steal coral reefs, that’s outright thievery. Thieves and burglars steal at night because they’re afraid of getting...
MEDIUM RARE There was no rain, ergo no flooding, just as there were no collisions or ongoing roadworks. Yet it took me two hours and 40 minutes to travel 20 km from Mall of Asia to Quezon City on a day that was not a Friday, not a pay day. At that rate and at a cost of ₱67 per liter of gasoline...
MEDIUM RARE As a restaurateur who cooks and invents her own dishes, Sandee Masigan is also a food stylist who knows how the camera can glamourize a dish’s visual appeal; more importantly, she’s well aware of the urgent need to minimize food wastage. First on her list of to-do’s that have...
