Bautista: If you had Henry Sy’s ear for ten minutes...
I AM reminded of this short story (which I’m sure you all heard told in one form or another) about a salesman who was desperate to make a sale with top executive.
The salesman tried so many times to get an appointment so he could start his pitch but to his dismay he was always turned down...
Experiment gone right
FOUR buddies met five years ago over bottles of their favorite brews to discuss something life changing. Well, not really. Actually, these five (Joma, Ollie, Kline and Fred) went on to talk about their passion for drink and how to make a few bucks at the side.
Police track missing coed
MEMBERS of the Women and Children Protection Center of the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) were able to trace the whereabouts of a missing 16-year-old girl earlier reported missing.
In weekend's report, Edna, not her real name, was reported abducted, by her uncle to the National Bureau...
Bautista: Dangers of contraceptives
I STARTED out yesterday saying the Pinoy journalist should be alarmed by the RH bills being deliberated upon in Congress. The debate on House Bill 4244 and Senate Bill 2865 is not limited to our congressmen and senators, you see.
Bautista: A matter of knowledge
YOU can count in one hand the number of journalists (well locally anyway) who have expressed their opposition to the Reproductive Health bills filed in the House of Representatives (HB 4244) and the Senate of the Philippines (SB 2865). Literally.
Philandering lawyer faces disbarment
BAGUIO CITY -- A lawyer is now facing a disbarment case for being a womanizer and a possible child abuser.
In a complaint with the Commission on Bar Discipline, complainant Jane (not her real name) claimed lawyer Ernesto delos Santos not only got her pregnant, refused to marry her, but...
Bautista: 9.6 and counting (down)
YOU don't need to visit your social networking site or read the headlines to know the latest buzz about town. All you got to do is feel it.
Bautista: The driver’s plight
THE neon sign shocked me out of my Jack Daniels induced stupor. I could have sworn a few hours ago, it told a totally different thing.
At 12 a.m. of December 29, gas prices shot up by a peso, shocking even the driver who was taking me home. The neon sign said P41.32 for every liter of...
Bautista: Elusive justice
TUESDAY will live long in the memory of millions of Filipinos. With a vote of 7-4-4 (for-against-inhibited) the Supreme Court of the Philippines junked the earlier decision of the lower court and acquitted Hubert Webb, et. al. of the crimes of rape and murders.
Bautista: Trillanes, et.al freed
FIRST up: the Sacred Heart Community is extending this invitation to everyone who would wants to deepen their Catholic life through the Life in the Spirit Seminar (LSS).
Bautista: So easy to make a list
FOR years if not decades now, the fight against illegal gambling has seemed to be an “eternal” undertaking.
As many others out there, I remain rather skeptic on the move to finally eradicate illegal gambling in our society. “So what’s new?” was my initial reaction.
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Bautista: Another flyover?
WELL, it seems another flyover will be rising in the city soon. Okay, I’m jumping the gun.
Bautista: Dung matters
FISRT off, I would like to welcome three new columnists to the Sun*Star Baguio Family in the persons of Mr. Art Tibaldo, Mr. Dennis Gutierrez and Ms. Raye Baquirin.
Bautista: Illegal vending in Baguio
A MAN walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "If I show you a really good trick, will you give me a free drink?"
Bautista: Things I learned from P-Noy
A CORDILLERA woman was out working in the gabi patch one day when she hit lifted a rather big gabi leaf and to her surprise found a dwarf in a trap.
Bautista: Familiar faces, familiar actions
A LUXURY liner sank in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and there were only three survivors who found a desert island: an American, a German and the Filipino kitchen assistant (aka tagahusgas).
Entering a deep, dark HOLE
YOU don't have to be exceptionally brave to take the plunge and enter a deep, dark and mysterious cave...
Bautista: School opening
IT’S time to go school.
One morning a mother was trying to wake up her son. “Wake up now! It’s time to go to school.”
Bautista: Cordi back on entertainment map
THREE religious men (a catholic bishop, an Isalmic imam, and a Buddhist monk) were debating which of their Gods was the best.
Bautista: Those DPWH repairs
SO A man’s daughter finally gets into a good college in Baguio.
Bautista: The dirty finger
AFTER waiting for two hours standing in line, all I got was a dirty finger.
Bautista: A ton of salt and surveys
FIRST off, I would like to greet a happy, happy birthday to Dan and Andrea, two kids who make life so much fulfilling to their parents and siblings.
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Bautista: A single vote can change the world
SO YOU still think your solitary vote won’t mean a thing in the grand scheme of life?
This may change your mind.
Bautista: Come pain
ADMITTEDLY this piece should have come out the last week of March just in time for the start of the campaign period (hence the title, get it?), but things were (actually are) a little hectic.
Bautista: Beginnings and anniversaries
IT WAS supposed to be only a beer or two prior to going home. You know how it is, visit a bar to get rid of the worries of the office so it won’t you bother when you get home.
