Pinoy parents ranked third lowest among 16 countries as they fared poorly across sectors including high levels of pressure and low financial resilience, but they are confident about their parenting decisions, skills and the upbringing of their children, according to a new Parenting Index. The...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Over a year has passed since the first lockdown, and we’ve all been struggling to cope with this dystopian world. By the end of 2020, some thought the pandemic has become manageable as the government clocked just a thousand or so daily cases, then here came the variants...
Not once, but twice! Actress-host Toni Gonzaga sat down with the King of Talk Boy Abunda recently revealing she actually didn't want to take her role in the 2013 blockbuster film, "Four Sisters and a Wedding." Apparently, as experienced as she was as actress at the time, Toni has been having doubts...
Bokashi is a Japanese word for fermented organic matter. In as fast as 30 days, one can create a natural fertilizer for the plants through bokashi composting. Composting is not only beneficial to the environment, but also to us humans. This boils down to ensuring the safety of the food we all...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Everybody’s agog over Ivermectin, an antihelmintic drug that, based on preliminary studies, may be useful in our fight against COVID-19. And it appears that some people have already been taking it to prevent infections. We should wait a little. In a widely cited 2020...
“Why are you asking me to dress more modestly? You should teach boys to respect women so that I don’t have to dress modestly,” my 11-year-old girl glared at her father and I at the dinner table. She didn’t look sexy—she still has the body of a pre-pubescent girl, but her little skirt, too...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan Agriculture is everywhere, even in films that have nothing to do with it. People went wild in 2019 when the end of Avengers Infinity War showed how big baddie Thanos, after making half the world’s population disappear with the literal snap of his fingers, didn’t gloat...
In Scarlet Snow Belo’s latest video upload on Instagram, one can watch her perform the Filipino iconic song “Mga Kababayan” by the late Original Pinoy Music (OPM) master rapper Francis Magalona which promotes Filipino positive attitude and...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Several strong potential candidates have started to make their 2022 intentions felt, like Senator Bong Go, Senator Manny Pacquiao, former Senator Bongbong Marcos, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, and others. Some of them have even started revving up their public relations...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto I moved to Benguet when the Luzon-wide COVID-19 lockdown started on March 15 th last year. I thought the lockdown would last for a month at most, so I thought that my northern escapade would be a welcome break from all of Manila’s toxicity. But what’s supposed to be a...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Over 7 billion human beings need the COVID-19 vaccine, and there are only a handful of people who manufacture them. There is a global vaccine shortage, hence the need to prioritize high-risk groups, especially medical frontliners. With demand vastly exceeding supply,...
Various Filipino food products are now available in 60 mainstream retail stores in Australia on growing demand not just from the Filipino communities, but from the increasingly adventurous Australian mainstream consumers, the Philippine Trade and Investment Centre (PTIC) in Sydney reported. PTIC...
