THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Do you think ‘Filipino resilience’ is overrated?” That was one of the questions we got this past week from some of our readers. They were apparently affected by a message on Twitter coming from a showbusiness personality. In the tweet, the said...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares As we write this column, many of our countrymen in various parts of Luzon are picking up the pieces – literally and figuratively speaking – in the aftermath of the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses. The magnitude of the fury of Ulysses was somehow unexpected. We...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “How does it feel to win an election?” That was the question a number of friends were asking me this past week. They seem to have been watching the conduct of the presidential elections in the United States. They must have been contaminated by the excitement...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “In a span of seven and a half months, a good number of people close to us passed away.” This is the gist of some of the saddest text and private messages we received over the past few months following the start of the quarantine season in March of this year....
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Who do you think would win – Trump or Biden?” “What do you think of the US elections – has it started to resemble Philippine elections?” “If you were an American, would you go Republican or Democrat in this election?” “What’s at stake for us...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares An apparent “word war” recently erupted between the science community of the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The tussle seems to have been triggered by what the DENR spokesperson described as a...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Do you see the light at the end of the tunnel?” That was the question I got last week from a friend who is now living in the United States. We had a recent chat over social media and had been comparing notes regarding economic and political developments here...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “What’s social media abuzz with these days?” That was the question I asked a staff of our public information office in Antipolo City. I wanted to know what netizens are discussing in the virtual platform. That piece of information, I thought, is a good...
Dr. Jun Ynares THE VIEW FROM RIZAL “Kakanta na ba ko?” That was the caption of a funny social media meme which has flooded Facebook timelines a few weeks ago. With that caption was the picture of a smiling Jose Mari Chan. The combination of the caption and the photo of the recording artist...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares Tomorrow, the last Monday of August, the nation will observe “ Araw ng mga Bayani ,” or National Heroes Day. When we were still kids, we looked forward to this day for one simple reason – it is a holiday, which means having the chance to have one more day to...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares The month of August is associated by most Filipinos with the “Buwan ng Wika.” It is also the time when the nation remembers the first president of the Philippine Commonwealth and the man considered to be the father of the Philippine national language....
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Would you trust the vaccine from Russia?” There has been a rash of text messages recently coming from friends. They wanted to know if I have inside information on Sputnik V – the vaccine against COVID 19 which the Russian government claims it has developed...
