Defenders rule CAR elementary age-group TKD tilt
LA TRINIDAD -- Hundreds of elementary school level kids. Thirty-four top spots in the novice and advanced skills levels. Five of the best taekwondo schools in Cordillera. In the end, there can only be one reigning supreme in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
Grade school kids from...
SLU lady jins score 3-peat in BBEAL taekwondo
THE Saint Louis University (SLU) lady Navigators had one gold over Benguet State University (BSU) realizing a vow to retain supremacy in 25th Baguio-Benguet Educational Athletic League (BBEAL) women’s Taekwondo.
The Navigators turned the tables on the BSU in the women’s division after...
Liporada: A troubled child’s response to a letter from his dad (Continued from last week)
WE’VE seen how parents blamed the local police about the allegedly worsening peace and order situation in the ‘City of Puns’.
We’ve witnessed apparently concerned sectors march towards City Hall in indignation shindigs with some of ‘em losers in the last elections, protesting alleged lack...
Liporada: A letter from a parent to a surely troubled child
IN THIS age of high-tech and low-touch mechanisms, it seems so many people in the City of Puns have been engulfed in just "sending away" their troubles through text messages or conveniently typing unfounded criticisms through Facebook.
This is a piece for parents who no longer know how to...
Liporada: On the contrary, no “prior restraint” in the RH Bill...
I AM one who is ‘PRO-RH’ and PRO-phylactic’.
Yep, I have read about it – all twenty-four pages.
So, this e-gorot jazzer is ‘agreeing to disagree’ with the 'Tea Leaf Reader' on some points if only to present the other side of the coin on a specific provision of the Reproductive...
Liporada: A “juvenile welfare” law...Really?
THIS is not a piece for the youth who have perished at the hands of their peers… God bless their souls. It is for my children.
I had a good laugh reading a piece about the Senate pushing suspension of the Juvenile Justice Welfare Law (RA 9344) when I scanned recent history about the...
Liporada: Smokin' notes from a sucker!
I DON’T smoke. The cigarette does all the smoking and I am just the sucker!
Liporada: Envelopmental diplomacy
I AM one who believes that old dogs can never be taught new tricks.
So, I am dedicating this piece to journalists-to-be whose idealism vis-à-vis the media are still intact.
I was privileged to team up with Philippine Information Agency (PIA) chief Helen Tibaldo during an August 17...
Liporada: Coco vs Migs: I call this round for Zubiri
UNBELIEVABLE!
It would’ve been a phantom punch had the game been boxing.
It didn’t matter if his political rival for the last senate seat dubbed his resignation “long overdue”.
Still, honor is his for holding himself to an ideal conduct albeit ill-timed; dangerous; and, from...
Liporada: Murphy's laws in the City of Baguio
I DON'T know exactly where "Murphy's Laws" came from and I don't intend to research on it.
It is not my topic.
What amazes me though are the way said 'Laws' are written in such a way that it expresses frustration with a tinge of humor (or tragedy for some).
Without any...
Liporada: Like watchin’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’
OH C’MON now, surely the recent same sex ‘union’ ‘celebrated’ in the City of Pino could not have been that bad…
It does not deserve condemnation nor prohibition that it is getting now.
At best, what was recently covered by media should be treated no more like watching “Brokeback...
Liporada: Our rush hour ‘umbrella rental’ just got more expensive...
YOU can complain all you want but sooner or later, you’ll find yourself flagging one of ‘em cabs despite the original P25.00 flag down rate going up to P35.00; from P1.50 per succeeding kilometer, to P2.00.
It has happened before. It will happen again.
You even promised yourself...
Liporada: Why neither July 4 nor June 12 should be Philippine Independence Day
[Note: I am yielding my space for this 6/10/2011 piece from Rudy Liporada, which I believe every Filipino should read and ponder upon if they truly believe in the concept of freedom they have now.
This column piece is lifted with permission from Asian Journal - the original and...
Liporada: The 'masturbation' of national players
IF THERE is one word I could sum up the treatment some of our national players get from their respective National Sports Associations (NSA) during the recent Philippine Olympic Committee-Philippine Sports Association National Games (PNG) in Negros Occidental, definitely, I'd go with "...
Liporada: An open letter to PNoy about the RH bill
Dear President Noy:
LAST Monday, my eight-year-old son Rama asked my wife, "When I grow up, where will I get money to feed my kids and to make sure they, too, can attend taekwondo like I do?"
It was an innocent question... but relevant to the most controversial issues of our time...
Liporada: Moments with mommy
AS A tribute to the women of my clan and all mommies on Mother’s Day, here are some of my favorite ‘mommy-kiddy’ moments to remind ‘em that once, at least once, they’ve been had by their kids yet through it all, got the better of the experience:
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My dad believes in...
Liporada: This is not a letter for or about that noontime show guy!
(Note: this is when parents like me should start reading between the lines…) My dearest kids: DO NOT worry.
Times maybe hard but the thought of having anyone of you dancing some ‘macho’ or ‘sexy’ routine in front of a live studio audience and nationwide TV...
Liporada: Graduation day -- ‘Do you make papa proud?’
(Note: The piece is an edited version of a speech I delivered on behalf of parents of University of Baguio Elementary kids during the latter’s “Tribute to Parents” program last March 26.
As requested by my co-parents, allow me to share it once again as my way of congratulating them and...
Liporada: Lessons from Japan
WHEN I was a kid, there’s this story about a boat in a middle of a storm somewhere in the Pacific where a Pinoy, a Japanese, a Korean, and a Chinaman were arguing as to who should be left to navigate the vessel to safer waters.
Story was, after jettisoning precious cargo the boat still...
Liporada: Fine-tuning 'logic' maybe the only viable solution to traffic woes
BEGGING the question or the Latin "petitio principia," is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.
It is committed when a proposition which requires proof is assumed without proof; or, arguing for a conclusion that...
Liporada: A Filipino helped Bruce Lee?
(Columnist's Note: I am yielding my space to accommodate Mr. Rudy Liporada's piece about a Filipino who sowed 'Pinoy Pride' abroad long before the Azkals, Manny Pacquiao, Nonito Donaire, etc. ever did. The article originally came out in the Asian Journal which is a California-based paper....
Liporada: Calming vehicular traffic without suspending the coding edict
FACT: Baguio traffic and the solutions propounded to solve the same has become a picture of worsening repetitious regularity.
Number Coding. One-way traffic. No parking. 'Walk, Baguio, Walk' advocacy....
We have tried almost everything to lower pollution rate and vehicular...
Liporada: Panagbenga Review - Opening gala hints of 'Cordi' things to come
THIS year, after a long hiatus from watching the Panagbenga parades live, I am finally convinced it's time to go back to the streets and enjoy 'em cavalcades the old fashion way. Here's why:
About 5,000-people were treated with a Panagbenga "innovation" which highland locals consider '...
Liporada: Panagbenga: 'Things people never knew but ought to know'
I WAS having coffee with best buddy Paul 'Papi' Clavio in a café along Session Road when 'Panagbenga' was tabled.
He chairs the Communications Committee for the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation tasked to 'package and market' the annual fête through the Panagbenga website and anything...
Liporada: Desperately hoping to 'kick the habit' in the year of the rabbit
A FEW days before 2011, I posted something on my FB wall: "Resolution No. 1: I'll stop promising I'm going to quit the habit... I'll just do it."
The next day, New Year's Eve, I posted: "I can do it!"
Immediately thereafter, threads of encouraging comments from my US based uncle...
