Carino: Money and mouths
THERE’S a rumor that at least one religious organization in Baguio is closing its Banco de Oro accounts to support the ongoing protest against SM, the sentiment being that to withdraw support from SM has to mean not using the bank that it built. Yes, we remember that BDO is the bank that SM...
Carino: How to avoid going to SM (continued)
THEN there’s Center Mall, and I will write here what I advise people about this place. It’s built on a creek, a waterway. Thus, it’s not reeeaaallly safe... so get in, buy what you have to, and get out. In my brother’s parlance: zip, zap, zoom – get in fast and get out fast.
So what’s to...
Carino: How to avoid going to SM
YES, it’s time for tips on how to avoid going to SM, where they cut it all for you. I say avoid because it’s near impossible to swing by the place and not buy something or eat somewhere there. But one must try.
First, know what are actually better in other malls, and go to these other...
Carino: We cut it all
THE catchy SM commercial tune that ends with “… at SM, we got it all for you…” is nowadays much parodied. I’m hearing the same catchy tune now sung, “Here at SM, we CUT it all for you… ”
The battle over the cutting of trees on the slope behind SM rages on. On both sides, there are...
Carino: Easter Morn
IN THIS Holy week, our minds hearken to the story of the first Easter morning. When some of Jesus’ followers, at dawn “…went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
Carino: RTMT
THERE is this vehicular emission test by our local city government, given randomly by Baguio City Hall personnel on vehicles around town. The City Hall team that administer said test can be spotted –- bannered RTMT -- in what might be called key places in the city. I sometimes see them on...
Carino: Breaking rules
I HAVE just listened to a set of wonderful students deliver basic speeches to inform, persuade, or entertain. One of them spoke of breaking fashion rules. Her speech was titled, of course, “Break the Rules.”
Carino: A Baguio story
SHE was young, ambitious, and adventurous. In the 60s, she found herself in a small American town called Baguio, and liking it. To support herself, and because she was from the land of famous cooks, Pampanga, she set up a small canteen of sorts to feed medical representatives in Baguio briefly,...
Cariño: Good taste
A NUMBER of guests I had the other week took notice that in Baguio, we seem to be wall to wall eateries. I took a long look at Session Road, from where we were having a good taste of Asian food, and had to agree. On both sides of it, only the drug stores don’t serve food. Heavens.
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Carino: Good Set, Bad Set
Good set. An Australian production of the hit musical Mamma Mia wrapped up its Asian tour with a three-week stint in Manila. As expected, Mamma Mia was entertaining. First, you can’t go wrong with the famed and familiar Abba songs. Second, they were well rendered by said production, any one...
Carino: McLuhan Media Forum at UP Baguio
THE annual Marshall McLuhan Media Forum was held Friday at the UP Baguio, in coordination with the Canadian Embassy in the Philippines. Three distinguished women journalists tackled the topic of community journalism.
I was asked to react.
Carino: How Swardspeak started, truli-ly
THE above title is what became of the title of a piece I originally called “Swardspeak: Some Etymology.” It was about, precisely, the etymology of what has come to be called Gayspeak, a language we all use at one point of time or other. Think bading, which rhymes with charing, and is so much...
Carino: Two gatherings
THIS weekend, Baguio and Benguet Ibaloy clans bury Alicia Cariño Pacalso.
Carino: Theta healing
I AM on a slooow read of one of Vianna Stibal's books on Theta Healing, an instant way by which the power of, in Stibal's words, the Creator of All That Is, can be tapped to heal any disease. When we are faced with such miracle-level instruction on how God can heal untreatable diseases in mere...
Carino: Brain talk
NICK PERLAS. We remember him best perhaps for joining the presidential race the other year. Personally, I remember being impressed by his scientific background, articulateness, and sheer nerve. It takes that, at the very least, to run for president when you’re up against such well-known names...
Carino: Enter the Dragon (continued)
THUS subduing the inauspicious stars, it’s time to enhance the auspicious ones. Still from Too:
“The Wealth Star 8 brings abundant wealth and prosperity, and this year it flies to the West. It is most beneficial for the youngest daughter and those born in the year Rooster. To enhance...
Carino: Enter the Dragon
THE Chinese Year of the Water Dragon begins on January 23, just about a couple of weeks from now. So brush up on what’s what with the year’s “flying stars” and the cures and enhancers for them, as well as the tips for our astrological signs.
From my fave, the World of Fengshui website...
Carino: New ways
IT IS that time of year when we traditionally make a big thing out of New, it being the New Year, and we like to think of transforming ourselves and our world into better energies.
Carino: A Season of Light
LIGHTS are what adorn most streets and homes this time of year, as the Christian world commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, who so embodied the Christ consciousness that his name has become synonymous with it. The streetlights and those we put up at home remind us of Jesus’ birth and should...
Cariño: Impeaching the Chief Justice
IT’S happening, for the first time in the history of the country – the impeaching of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. One might say that Malacañang has had enough of Corona’s stymieing its agenda, and has flexed its legendary muscle. After all, the Filipino saying that “All roads...
Carino: Gaspar
IT IS that blessed, wonderful time of year when the whole of Christendom begins to celebrate one of its most loved seasons, Christmas. If you are even remotely Catholic, then you are probably caught up, too, in all of the attendant energies of the season, making lists, buying special gifts, in...
Carino: The democratization of the world
METHINKS that the so-called modern world started “democratizing” with the almighty photocopy machine – Xerox – what former U.P. President Francisco Nemenzo called “the revenge of the third world…” With it, anyone and everyone could read even the most expensive of books. In this country, such...
Carino: Towards making Igorot movies
THE University of the Philippines Baguio last weekend concluded its Basic Film Workshop with a session with filmmaker Nick de Ocampo.
Carino: UPB turning 50
THE University of the Philippines at Baguio will turn 50 next year, in April to be exact. Before that, a slew of activities in all of its departments are happening. This Christmas season, the UPB community lunch will have a 60s theme, to commemorate the decade when the Baguio campus of the State...
Cariño: Four Girlfriends in Borobudur
ONCE upon a time in the Philippines, there was a refugee center in Morong, Bataan. Over Aeta land, the Philippine government built a processing center for America-bound refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Refugee-centered agencies from all over the world nested in Morong, in what was...
