THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Are you a high school or freshman college student who’s forced to learn on your own? Or maybe a parent of one and you don’t know how to help your child? If the answer is yes, then please read on. We’re in the middle of a pandemic and face-to-face classes are limited at...
Dave Ildefonso (left) and Matt Nieto (Photo from SBP) Gilas Pilipinas suffered a setback after Matt Nieto and Dave Ildefonso sustained injuries a few days before the third window of the FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers. Nieto, who was selected by NLEX in the 2019 special Gilas PBA Rookie Draft, and...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto I belong to the A3 priority category, so I have already received two shots of Sinovac's Coronavac spaced four weeks apart. With that said, let me tell you about my COVID-19 vaccine experience. The process is quite simple and straightforward, and I am so happy that the...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Let us be clear about the primary interest of the Filipino people, which I believe is to provide the most comfortable life possible for a vast majority of Filipinos in the shortest amount of time possible. Note the use of additional terms “possible” and “vast...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Unlike many political personalities today, I have always taken the pro-diplomacy stance regarding the South China Sea issue. And when I say pro-diplomacy, I mean honest-to-goodness diplomacy, not the antagonistic and oxymoronic “megaphone diplomacy” that opposition...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto Manila Bulletin reporter Raymund Antonio on Wednesday reported that Vice President Leni Robredo got a barangay clearance in the Camarines Sur town of Magarao. Robredo claims to be a resident of Naga City, having voted there in the 2019 midterm elections. But then, a barangay...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto The legendary Efren “Bata” Reyes isn’t the best billiards player. Do you know who’s better than him? The audience, the “ miron. ” No matter what decision he makes on the pool table, there’s a miron who’ll say Efren should’ve done this and that. To 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...
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...
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,...
