I once asked a friend this oft-repeated somewhat-of-a-ridiculous question: “If you were given the chance to live your life anew, would you do it differently?” After panning his gaze at people doing their stuff at the crowded fast food section of the mall, he whispered “No!” and grinned. Whatever his “No!” and succeeding grin meant, I just clipped… Read More »
MANILA The quietude of this past Holy Week here made the mind wander, searching for something to think, muse and wonder about. It’s amazing how the mind can go places. A blank stare can produce images and remembrances of the many crossroads in one’s life, people who’ve crossed one’s path, here and in distant places. Remembered scenes are… Read More »
The recent appointment of a former Customs official, who was accused by a self-confessed fixer as among those taking bribes, to deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Customs puts an anti-climactic conclusion to the P6.4-billion shabu smuggling scandal, which started as a scorching drama that threatened to expose the underbelly of the supposedly corruption-free family of President Rodrigo… Read More »
‘Ika nga ng isang pasaway: Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, may stiff neck. No, no to stiff neck. Not now, not ever! Thus so, I will always look back to the fond and great memories I have of the place – Barangay Balumpare in Sampaloc, Manila — where I was born and was raised, up to my mid-teens.… Read More »
MANILA Who would have thought the B movie “The “Purge” could ever become a reality anywhere in the world? Actually, it’s what’s happening here in the Philippines. Life does imitate art. There was a movie (and a sequel) that depicts an annual night of cleansing society of “undesirables” by killing people in a span of one night. The… Read More »
FOR all its claims of a resolute war against drugs and corruption, the Duterte administration seems to be showing the opposite with two recent questionable legal moves – the dropping of charges against several prominent suspected drug lords and the decision to put alleged pork scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles under the Witness Protection Program with the end… Read More »
I have been following this very controversial bill in our Canada’s House of Common since last year, that will force employers to support abortion and transgenderism in order to get student summer job funding. Here’s the latest update on the Bill Canada’s House of Commons voted 207 to 93 on Monday March 19, 2018 to defeat a Conservative… Read More »
A new law took effect in Ontario last month. It is now an offence, punishable by punitive fines and prison, to “attempt to advise or persuade” someone to refrain from having an abortion, or to “attempt to inform a person concerning issues related to abortion services”, or to “attempt to perform an act of disapproval [of abortion]”… Read More »
Just six years after the Supreme Court was rocked by an inglorious impeachment trial that removed a sitting Chief Justice and by the contentious appointment of the court’s youngest member to replace him, the country’s high tribunal has again found itself saddled by controversy, division and disarray. As the people marked the start of the year 2012,… Read More »
Here is a notation on ‘pasaway’ I saw, copied and paraphrased from the Internet; thus, all credits belong to the anonymous source. Originally, the notation said, ‘pasaway’ is not a Tagalog word. It is a word in Ilongo — one of some 170 regional languages heard in the Philippine archipelago — principally spoken in parts of… Read More »