MEDIUM RARE Penny has painted her door a crunchy apple green, and tied a vertical ribbon, running down from top to bottom, one with a Christmas motif. The result is her door looks like a huge Christmas present. Pat-P has changed her color theme this year, from the all-pink of 2024 to red and...
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 ... It pours. Typhoon weather north and south. Two dead in Cebu, half a million homeless. Elsewhere, a storm surge, three to four meters high. Earthquake and landslides. Lahar in Guinobatan. No power in some towns in Isabela. The floods were described as historical, covering some...
MEDIUM RARE Yes, yes, I know, those two words in the headline should be followed by two more words: want not. Waste not, want not. What comes to mind first and foremost when you’re talking about waste? Food. I was chatting with the supervisor of a small army of waiters who were clearing away and...
MEDIUM RARE Add to that, Happy Halloween! And while we’re at it, happy trick or treating! It used to be that little boys were so easily scared of their own shadows jumping out of a dark corner. How times have changed, because now they want to be the ones doing the scaring, boo! And doing it in...
MEDIUM RARE I live in Quezon City. My favorite Auntie No. 3 lived in Quezon province for most of her mar-ried life. I go up and down Quezon Ave., QC, whenever I go to Manila and return to QC. Quezon City happens to own some of the widest, longest roads, the same way it harbors tree-lined streets...
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 Purplish mountains. Blue skies. And dreaming under fluffy white clouds, pine trees reaching for the sun. Each time I set foot in Baguio City, I imagine it as timeless. Mornings at 8 feel the same as afternoons at 5, just before the sun sets. Is it my watch or imagination? But when...
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...
