IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, “A Bad Memory” (1878) This is an aging person’s nightmare: waking up one...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The killing last of week of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the country’s capital Tehran has added fuel to the fire of tensions in the already precarious situation in the Middle East. We hope Iran, Israel, which is...
Long live the many unique traditions of the Yuletide season in the Philippines IN THE COVER This week's issue of The Philippine Panorama explores how various provinces in the country are ushering in Christmas It might be a quieter Christmas, but it’ll be Christmas just the same. It has been...
Queen of All Media Kris Aquino revealed on Monday night that she's thinking of ways that will make her followers happy in the coming Noche Buena. Now under quarantine at home with her staff, Kris who went live on Instagram said: "May binabalak akong gawin sa mga followers ko….I'm...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “... the canker, and the grief are mine alone!” – Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet, On this Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year (1824) While the big ones like cancer and stroke may overwhelm us, it’s the common inconveniences like ingrown...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In February, 2010, in Seoul, we proposed to then Foreign Minister Yu MyungHwan the establishment in Manila of a Philippines-South Korea University, following our much earlier discussions with then Korean Ambassador in Manila, HE Choi...
This national conference is what everyone needs right now in the transition to the technological period When we say literacy the first thing that comes to mind is the ability to read and write. As defined by the Oxford dictionary, its secondary denotation, on the other hand, is “competence in a...
GMA First Vice President for Program Management Jose Mari R. Abacan was once again part of the esteemed panel of jurors in the Final Round of Judging for the Comedy category at the 48th International Emmy Awards held last November 23. Abacan, with his vast expertise in TV programming, was tapped by...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “..he never straightens his knee joints… and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.” – Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, Collected Letters , vol. 3. Thomas Carlyle probably described arthritis when he first met another...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We sincerely thank God that at almost 84, the Lord has given us fair health and some residual energy. Before the onslaught of the global Coronavirus pandemic, which has harshly disrupted and claimed more than a million lives worldwide, we...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, and twins even from the birth are misery and man!” — Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, The Odyssey of Home (1726),Book vii. Line 263. When a task is “arduous and exhausting, demanding great...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Elected as one of the youngest US senators in 1972 at the age of 29, Delaware’s favourite son seems to be the would-be oldest-elected president of the United States, at 77. We do not wish to speak yet with finality on Biden’s victory...
