By Bianca Camella G. Villares

TECHNICALLY, every person undergoes 14 to 15 years of long and painstaking education. That’s over 130,000 hours of classes, exams, and regular burning of the midnight oil—sort of like a self-inflicted kind of suffering.

Well, yes, elementary and high school may have proved to be a snap, but ten years of it does not serve the purpose of nothing. It prepares us for something else, something called higher education—college.

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By Jose Jello S. Cubelo

ONE of Cebu’s magnets is its colleges and universities. Aside from locals, students from across the country and even from abroad flock the gates of Cebu’s reputed learning institutions making the city a place where knowledge converge.

Over the years, Cebu’s colleges and universities have continually sought development�the character that marks a zealous institution of learning. As June approaches, Sun.Star Plus & Special visits these institutions to talk about their developments.

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By Insoy Niñal
Insoymada

I BELONG TO a generation that is always caught in a dilemma of having to choose between two life-altering options. Pepsi or Coke?

Yano or Eraserheads? Ayala or SM? McDonald’s or Jollibee? Globe or Smart? And most recently, boxers
or briefs?

Yes. Boxers or briefs!

With everything that life has taught me over the years, it is a shame to be caught mulling over what piece of cloth to cover myself with down there.

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By Gally T. Sayson

SOME 30 to 35 years ago, I was the lone and perhaps the first Filipino to work at an oil drilling rig. Though I was hired in Texas, I couldn’t work in the mainland because I was an alien.

And so they sent me to different countries outside the United States where the company operated some oil drilling rigs. My work schedule was 28/14–that means I have to work for 28 days before I could take 14 days off with pay. With a round-trip airline ticket on business class to any country of my choice, plus $28-a-day pocket money for 14 days, I netted around $392.

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By Elisabeth Baumgart
Inkblots

IS IT too much to ask to have a clean and honest election? How hard is it not to cheat, kill, bully, harass and insult during elections?

Oh yeah, what am I saying? These days it’s hard being an honest citizen, more so if you’re a politician.

The day we get a clean and honest election is the day when pigs learn to fly and dogs begin to speak and the world rotates off its axis.

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