In the spirit of Dinagyang, that concluded over the weekend, here’s a reprise of something I wrote a while back on Iloilo’s signature dish. THE SWEET SIDE Popoy's batchoy at the Iloilo Central Market Some sophisticates might harrumph, “There’s got to be more to Iloilo than batchoy.”...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin So I just came back from the Singapore Motor Show. This was my first official international media trip since the lockdown. And boy has so much changed. The biggest change I noticed was that our media group was now made up of 50 percent from the traditional motoring...
The United States has provided a telecommunication company P118 million (US$2.15 million) to conduct a feasibility study in the Philippines for the development of a reliable and secured nationwide 5G mobile network across the country. US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson, US Assistant...
Or why we can find answers in feng shui RUN, RABBIT, RUN An artwork that depicts The Year of the Water Rabbit, which begins today, Jan 22, 2023 and ends on Feb 9, 2024 I used to be a feng shui extremist. I didn’t think of it as a science or as an art. I didn’t...
Make room for good writing even when the times make bad sentences seem good enough “I am a complexly horizontal author,” says Truman Capote. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy.” It’s never...
USTDA & NOW Telecom partner for 5G, NBN By EMMIE V. ABADILLA The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), and NOW Telecom Company, Inc. partnered to deploy a nationwide stand-alone 5G mobile and fixed wireless network in the Philippines, the local telco disclosed Friday, January 13. The USTDA,...
At its core, through trials and errors, our desire is to elevate our world to the level of utopian science fiction. Other than inhabiting, possessing, and controlling it, we have reshaped it, but here we are. Can we get it back in shape? Its growing catalog of ills notwithstanding, I think the...
Poetry does make better writers and also better people Illustration by Oteph Antipolo In 2011, at exactly 8:58 p.m. on Dec. 31 the year before, English author Neil Gaiman wrote in his digital journal, “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you readsome fine...
Or why we must swallow our regrets like a bitter pill Eat your words. As an idiom, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Because it means you’re wrong, take back what you said, admit to have had your foot in your mouth. But regret is food for thought. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but swallow it...
Illustration OTEPH ANTIPOLO In 2011, at exactly 8:58 p.m. on Dec. 31 the year before, English author Neil Gaiman wrote in his digital journal, “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo In the span of two weeks, more than 16 million subscriber identity modules (SIMs) have been registered following the implementation of the SIM Registration Act. Currently, we are on track because our target is to register at least one million SIMs per day to complete...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Today’s Feast of the Lord’s Baptism is celebrated not because Jesus needed to be cleansed. Rather, Jesus allowed himself to be deemed sinful as an act of solidarity with sinful humanity. St. Paul is even more shocking when he says that for our sake God made Jesus who knew no...
