Pete's ribs and Bobby J's crabs
FATHERS are honored at Surfin’ Ribs. Credit cards are not, for now. The honor lies in having the sumptuous ribs and crabs named for them by their children Raymond and Sharon. They have their dads possess the dish so that at first bite, you would like to meet Pete, if you’re having ribs, or Bobby...
Newly installed Archbishop Du wants Church to be ‘self-sufficient’
REV. John Forrosuelo Du began yesterday his stewardship as archbishop of Palo, Leyte, following his installation by the papal nuncio.
Du, 57, is one of the youngest to be appointed archbishops.
So: Just Du it
WHILE waiting for Archbishop John Du to accommodate me with an interview, I glanced at the tables where the bishops and archbishops had been seated at his welcome dinner in Palo, Leyte.
So it’s true what they say: the food is better at the priest’s table. There were dishes that we didn’t...
So: Kevin’s coverage in Dinagat
AT 12:58 p.m. yesterday, we got a tip that a Criminal Investigation and Detective Group (CIDG) team was going to Dinagat Island at 7 o’clock last night. From the urgency of the text, we knew that the trip wasn’t for some summer pictorial of jump shots at the beach.
Without saying it, the...
So: Well-traveled teachers
TEACHERS of a certain school in Batangas look forward to the summer vacation. With classes out, this is the time they travel.
They travel with their co-teachers abroad. They spend for their trips. The lucky ones get a free trip.
Sun.Star papers sweep PPI awards
THREE Sun.Star papers won all six civic journalism awards in the daily category at the Community Press Awards given last night at Traders Hotel in Manila.
Sun.Star Cebu got the plum award, Best Edited Community Newspaper, for the second year in a row. It also won Best in Culture and Arts...
So: One afternoon in a boarding house
THE 21-year-old man finally knew how being flogged felt. In the heat of the Lenten season, Jovito Laguna paid for an unfinished act.
Laguna was no Gilbert Bargayo, the emaciated-looking guy who offers himself every Good Friday in Cebu to be flogged and crucified. Laguna was flogged...
So: Standards
SHE had hoped to walk the stage to receive her high school diploma tomorrow, graduation day. But because her wearing a bikini and holding a cigarette in a public place deviated from the standards of her school, she can’t be at the commencement exercises.
So: The turtle that couldn’t move
ONE particular aquatic turtle in Moalboal, Cebu had a rough Thursday last week. It had been swimming Zen-like until a group of divers came upon it and decided to have their picture taken with it.
The sea turtles of Tongo, Moalboal are used to the presence of divers and the sight of...
So: A woman’s affair
WE WERE not a young bunch but we had no qualms of wearing the shortest of shorts. Most of us were past 34 years old and couldn’t care less of other people’s opinions of how we look or what we say.
We’ve gone through multiple childbirths, spousal separations and career changes. We are...
So: Mayora
SEEING a picture of Antoinette Dangoy take her oath as vice mayor of Compostela town almost two years since she got elected into office made me recall a Biology student at the University of the Philippines Cebu College who rarely mentioned her father being a mayor.
Until she ran for...
So: The cost of butanding encounter
THERE is considerable excitement at the presence of whale sharks in the bucolic town of Oslob in southern Cebu. Weekends have found the coastal barangay of Tan-awan abuzz with visitors, local and foreign alike.
Early morning last Saturday, my friends and I were part of the hundreds of...
So: Nap and Joel and their Vibram 100K
CONGRATULATIONS, Nap and Joel, for finishing the Vibram Ultra Trail in Hong Kong last weekend in a temperature so cold that something in your lower anatomy was said to have shriveled into prunes.
You bring pride to Cebu for being among the 506 of 755 ultra runners from all over the world...
So: Mayor’s attraction
IS CORDOVA Mayor Adelino Sitoy trying to catch the attention of Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza?
Yes, if you ask Radaza. The revelation came a day after Valentine’s Day during Radaza’s regular press conference in her office.
And what has Sitoy done or said that made her turn her...
So: Facebook education for the househelp
PHOTOS, especially profile pictures on Facebook, can sometimes deceive. The person is not who he looks, more so if his picture shows him to be too good-looking for comfort because he resembles Piolo Pascual.
We all have our moments of delusion of super gwapa-ness or gwapo-ness, that’s why...
So: Lito Lapid on Twitter
HE asked a question and got Twitted about.
The question was neither eyebrow-raising nor head-scratching. It was the man who asked the question that had everyone sit still and listen to what he had to say.
“Ano po ang difference ng cash advance sa loan o utang?”
For the first...
So: Road digging for gold
THE way the excavations are going on in Lapu-Lapu, you’d think that treasures are being dug in the islet city. Mayor Paz Radaza is not pleased, not for the futile search but for the monstrous traffic, dust and flooding the diggings are causing.
So: All-Women Ultra Marathon, first and unique
FRAILTY, thy name is woman.”
Hah! Hamlet, you won’t be saying this when you see women running 50 kilometers two months from now in Cebu.
Labing gamay nga Sto. Niño
DUNA siya’y kulong nga buhok, lamurok ang aping, lingin ug tambok ang mga bitiis. Nagsul-ob siya og korona, tsaliko, kapa ug tsinelas. Nagkupot siya og bola sa iyang wa’ng palad. Susama lang siya sa ubang mga imahe sa Santo Niño nga makita sa bisan asang dapit sa Sugbo.
Apan kana, kon imo...
Tiniest Sto. Niño big hit in exhibit
CEBU CITY -- He has curly hair, chubby cheeks and plump legs. He wears a crown, a vest, a cape and slippers. He holds a ball on his left hand. He is just like the ubiquitous Sto. Nino images you see in Cebu.
That is, if you see him at all. Because you see, he is barely an inch tall, or...
So: Anos Fonacier
THE tourism department’s new slogan “It’s more fun in the Philippines” had me thinking of a man who blazed the trail for Cebu’s tourism in the 1980s. I called him up on his mobile phone yesterday when he turned 85.
So: Would it be a Porsche or a BMW
AT this time a year ago, I was jittery about a Sunday event. I was going to run my first 42K in the Cebu City Marathon (CCM).
I finished it in less than seven hours, or more accurately, six hours and 57 minutes.
So: Relief clothes
DISASTERS bring people together through clothes.
If you go to relief centers, you’d be overwhelmed by the tons of clothes that benevolent citizens have discarded to give to fire and flooding victims. Clothes, memory-laden but transient like youth, are the easiest and most convenient to...
So: Pari-an coded, decoded
IN THE old district of Pari-an in Cebu City hides what was once a Jesuit House.
Although I pass by this area every now and then, I didn’t know about the Jesuit House until I joined a walking tour of heritage sites in the district last Tuesday to launch a tourism-related project so high...
So: Belo clinic ‘pinurdoy’ style
DEEP in the mountains of Moalboal, a town in southeastern Cebu known for its reefs, lies an underground river. Not too many people outside of Barangay Busay where the river is know where it is.
Also hidden in two towns down, in Alegria, are waterfalls. Though not as high or as deep as...
