The young people I know (which include my grandkids, children nephews and nieces and the youth in my neighbourhood), remain chicken- sad today as I compose this column. It’s all because Jollibee still has not included Chickenjoy in its list of yummies available to hungry and very eager customers for about 2 weeks now. Sadder still is the… Read More »

In late June this year, four of those accused of having exploited for their personal advantage funds from the Congress  ‘pork barrel’ have, one by one and separately, voluntarily presented themselves to agencies executing the decisions made by of the Office of the Ombudsman and the Sandiganbayan for their arrest and arraignment. To me, this was an ok… Read More »

MetroManila seems doubly abuzz in the month of June- schoolchildren set for school, maintenance and repair of water drainage at a hectic pace ( why do they time this work just as school was opening? always.) to ward off the floods expected during the rainy season. Oh yes, it is now officially rainy season in the country, hopefully… Read More »

We will be completing the first half of the year this month. Before we realize it, ayan na, 2014 will be giving way to yet a new year in our lives.   Time really flies fast. I think of profound thoughts about past personal experiences that have given me much happiness, pain and sorrow, too on a number… Read More »

We have been advised that summer here in the country may end as early as the last week of May this year if a low pressure area detected by climatologists will develop fullscale. Various reactions for this news- a sigh of relief from thousands who are bearing the searing heat of summer- iba talaga ang init ngayon than… Read More »