Sunday Essays: Street side wheels
IS THERE no more discipline within us? Can we not show respect for our fellow Filipinos just even though just doing your chosen job well? A little consideration would go a long way.
Not for this jeepney driver and many like him.
My father went to Toril last week and rode a...
Sunday Essays: The boys are back in town
AT 6:45 p.m. on a Thursday evening, my father left his car just around the corner as he walked to my mother's workplace. It was a quiet night. Everything was as usual; the way they were supposed to be. Well, my father thought it was.
Sunday Essays: Hop on, hop off elsewhere
WHEN a friend asks you to come by his house for dinner, of course, you'll expect that you'll be welcomed as a guest, even though you don't relish the thought of expecting anything.
Deita: Bangkang papel
A COUPLE of years ago, I saw on TV the advertisement of "bangkang papel." It was like the government's grand plan for education -- being benefactors of a sponsor -- to make scholars out of those kids
