MEDIUM RARE Add to that, Happy Halloween! And while we’re at it, happy trick or treating! It used to be that little boys were so easily scared of their own shadows jumping out of a dark corner. How times have changed, because now they want to be the ones doing the scaring, boo! And doing it in...
MEDIUM RARE I live in Quezon City. My favorite Auntie No. 3 lived in Quezon province for most of her mar-ried life. I go up and down Quezon Ave., QC, whenever I go to Manila and return to QC. Quezon City happens to own some of the widest, longest roads, the same way it harbors tree-lined streets...
MEDIUM RARE Believe it or not, I had my own mini-“Thrilla in Manila” moment in the middle of the “fight of the century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier 50 years and eight days ago, on Oct. 1, 1975. As a member of the free ( 'walang bayad ') press whose seat happened to be at...
MEDIUM RARE Purplish mountains. Blue skies. And dreaming under fluffy white clouds, pine trees reaching for the sun. Each time I set foot in Baguio City, I imagine it as timeless. Mornings at 8 feel the same as afternoons at 5, just before the sun sets. Is it my watch or imagination? But when...
MEDIUM RARE Do not be deceived by those pictures showing PBBM serving — not cooking — soup in a soup kitchen to home-less persons in a “Walang Gutom” kitchen in Pasay City. The Chief Executive may not be a certified chef, but he knows how to cook! It’s not a state secret, though not many...
MEDIUM RARE Ten days left in September, with 31 to go in October and 30 in November for a total of 71 days before December comes merrymaking in. No apologies for the longest Christmas celebration in the world! lasting until January 6, feast of the Three Kings. Since last weekend, signs of the...
MEDIUM RARE Just like a typical teenager, Carlo Acutis, the newly canonized saint of the millennium, wore blue jeans and sneakers, usually paired with a t-shirt in a bright color. In his right hand, he carried a video camera, the better to record miracles, especially miracles centered around the...
MEDIUM RARE Maybe what we should do is control those anti-flood projects. So many of them, and still floods remain fashionable, unbeatable, unbearable but profitable for some. As DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon puts it, they’re like some kind of mythical monster, where the more of them you slay the...
MEDIUM RARE ‘Twas my first time to take lunch in Malacañang Palace’s Dream House – Bahay Pangarap – by the river. Such a serene, romantic sight – the water flowing, a clump of old trees standing on the river’s edge like a sentinel, and all around the grass in a tender shade of green....
MEDIUM RARE ‘Twas a Liberal Party party, if you could call it that, although the event was billed as a book launching. Raul A. Daza, 90, Samar-born, former governor, former congressman, has been a Liberal since 1965. His new books come as a pair: A Life: Years of Crisis, covering the years 1974...
MEDIUM RARE It’s official. Survey shows two out of three respondents describing Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon as likeable. Those three individuals belong to one household — mine — the third member explaining that her YouTube habit includes only people she knows, such as television and...
MEDIUM RARE Besides his State of the Nation Address (SONA), the President’s report on his accomplishments, there’s one other list, which we may describe as “Sana,” our “wish” word in the vernacular, as in “maybe” or “hopefully.” Among his successes and soon-to-be projects, PBBM...
