Ambasing: Propesor Villar - Maawa po kayo sa pasyente
A PERSON with epilepsy remains admitted in the hospital after a stroke. The patient’s seizures were previously relatively controlled with once weekly seizures while on Valproic Acid – Levetiracetam combination. Due to a policy in the hospital where the patient is admitted as a service or charity...
Ambasing: Easter School and Taft Avenue
WEEKS after Holy Week, we continue to have visitors into the city.
Speak Out: Still many people
WHILE traversing the top of Session Road one morning to get to my destination (not the mall but beyond it), I saw a looong, looong line of individuals waiting for the behemoth of a structure to open its jaws at 10 AM. This looong, looong line of visitors had on similar colored and designed tees...
Ambasing: Tourists
HAVE you seen the deluge of visitors to the province? Well, there are 10 things we would care less of when tourists visit the province:
Speak Out: Mama, dadaan po ba ito ng Strawberry Farm?
HOW many times have we heard this question? This seems to ring in our ears from the last week of October to the first week of June, with peaks during the holidays. This Holy Week, have you heard this question more than once? Well, I have.
Ambasing: More than Jaws - Shark fin danger!
I RECENTLY received an e-mail stating that shark fins contain high concentrations of the neurotoxin?-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA). I suddenly thought, didn’t I come across a journal article on BMAA in past? I suddenly searched my scientific journal files and indeed, the article I vaguely...
Ambasing: A Fishy Development: Tying a Yellow Ribbon
DOES anyone recall the issue with the “development” of the old US rest and recreation base in the city? After the Americans left and Camp John Hay given to the Philippines for its care and upkeep, the beautiful locale was re-developed. I can only recall one female writer who has aged gracefully...
Ambasing: Education never stops
WORLD Purple Day 2012 has come and gone.
Ambasing: From Thatcher to Clinton
MERYL Streep just won her third Oscar for a role she masterfully played. As former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, you now hear word about thoughts of casting her as Hilary Clinton!
Ambasing: Citius, Altius, Fortius
BRITISH Olympic athletes have been advised by their Olympic Association NOT to shake hands with other athletes, including spectators and dignitaries during the London Summer Olympics in July. The reason? Fear of spreading bugs!
Ambasing: A one-lane of a two-lane road
IT USED to be that we would both see and later complain of the north part of Magsaysay Avenue Baguio-bound half to be occupied by boulders, mud, debris, and garbage, which gave reason for short vehicle-length free-segments to be filled by parked cars to behemoth-sized trucks. Thus, the two-lane...
Ambasing: The Asia-Oceania Epilepsy Congress
A MONTH from now, the 9th edition of the Asia-Oceania Epilepsy Congress (AOEC) will be held. This installment will be hosted by our country at our nation’s capital. It is in this same congress when it was held in Nagano, Japan nearly a decade ago that I started becoming more active in the lives...
Speak Out: Different opinions
THE weekend parades have ended!
You hear this and that. Some express their delight. Others are ho-hum.
Ambasing: Is Isinbayeva Back?
AFTER languishing in the shadows behind Brazilian Fabiana Murer, the current World Title holder, including her countrywoman Svetlana Feofanova, two-time Olympic women’s pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva might just be back.
After the debacle of the past two world track and field...
Speak Out: Cognitive decline
AT ALMOST this same time last year, I came across a family that did not believe that their mother may have Alzheimer’s Dementia. She had subtle signs of the neurodegenerative disease so much so that denial would be expected. I revisit the illness and point out that cognitive decline may be...
Speak Out: Zero visibility. Breathability toxic.
HAVE YOU noticed vehicles being stopped lately and their exhausts being checked?
Ambasing: National Bulok Store, Again
IF NATIONAL Bookstore’s Red Courtesy Card may not be used at the same time as their White Laking National Card, please, we implore the company, to do so consistently because it is becoming confusing.
Speak Out: Unsung heroes
THEY BE HEROES!
Ambasing: National Bulok Store
IT IS becoming confusing.
Ambasing: Manong, Happy Homes
“MANONG, Happy Homes.”
So off you go to Happy Homes. You and your companion go through the city’s traffic jam chatting. You then realize you are approaching Pines City Doctors’ Hospital and your companion now gets ready to disembark and alight from the cab. You do the same not because you...
Ambasing: Micro: The new Gulliver’s travel adventure
I WAS surprised to see the name Michael Crichton emblazoned on the cover of a large softbound book with a black beetle and the title “Micro” on it a month ago while going through a bookstore in Mandaluyong. It also had the name of “Hot Zone” and “The Cobra Event” author Richard Preston, an...
Speak Out: Nurses
FACT: Nursing students have declined in number in our universities and colleges.
Fact: Not too many hospitals are hiring nurses.
Fact: There is still a need for additional nurses in hospitals, particularly government hospitals.
Fact: There are many licensed nurses who do not...
Speak Out: Warning - Walking may be hazardous to your health!
AMAZINGLY, people are now walking!
Speak Out: Guisad and La Trinidad valleys
I WAS told by a few Guisad residents that the road repairs in their part of the province has been going on forever. Foregone?
Another valley in the province has its roads also under repair. Since when have we experienced bad roads in this part of the province? Hmmmm. It’d say its...
Ambasing: Munting Lupa shows us
LITTLE did I know that only a number of people actually know that Muntinlupa has already banned the use of plastic bags and other non-biodegradable materials in the different establishments in that part of Metro Manila. What struck me is that our city government has never been ballsy enough to...
