Sunstar Essay: Like children
I ASKED the taxi driver I took a day after the recent Negros-Cebu 6.9 earthquake. “Diin ka paglinog?”
The strength of the tremors differed in the places where they landed, from 6 to 6.5 to 6.6 to 6.7 to 6.8 to 6.9, unhappily not below magnitude 6.)
Mercado: Rubbing patience raw
HOW long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience?” Cicero erupted in 63 BC at the Roman Senate against a tyrant plotting subversion.
“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?” fits exchanges between Rep. Tomas Osmeña and Mayor Mike Rama on the panic, triggered by false...
Obenieta: Qualifying the quick
TO walk the talk of progress, the first step is to find out where we would likely wobble and stumble flat on our faces.
Up front with our vulnerability could be the better part of valor, hands down, even though uncertainty finds us groveling with a clown’s grin. Speaking of Cebu and...
Lim: Love yourself
I WAS restless, inattentive and hyper-active as a child. I had trouble sitting still or keeping quiet. I found school mostly boring. My mind wandered off constantly. And I chatted incessantly in class. This, understandably, irked my teachers.
One school year, I was moved to all parts of...
Malilong: My priest, right or wrong
THE issue of sexual abuses committed by members of the clergy is a sensitive one that the Catholic Church in the Philippines has consistently sought to avoid discussing publicly in the past. It is therefore a surprise that no less than the Archbishop of Manila has all but acknowledged the extent...
Tabada: When women talk
SHE said her name is Arlene. She lived and worked for a time in Manila, handling the carvings sold in the stall she handles now in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
Though it was quicker and more lucrative to sell goods to tourists and locals who didn’t count the cost, city life tired her....
Speak out: Is education democratic in our country?
IT HAS been said that education plays a crucial role in the preservation, sustenance and improvement of the society. One main tasks of education in a democratic society is the proper preparation of young citizens for the roles and responsibilities they would be taking when they reach maturity....
De la Cruz-Busto: Thoughts on getting older
IN A week's, I will be 39 years old. When I am by my lonesome, I think about how things would be before turning 40. I feel I am already doing things that I think people turning older do. I know I am getting old because of the things that I do now that I do not normally do when I was younger.
Custodio: That heart-y feeling
I HAVE to say that love has been sooo in the air since February came. It's everywhere! There always seems to be that special thrill whenever Valentine's Day is coming. What can I say, people want to celebrate love!
I had originally wanted to write about the eternal love of my life, the...
Gueco: Mabalacat City
RISING from the shade of the balacat (fourth class timber) trees, this sacred land opened the gateway to a simple, straightforward and easy way of life during the Philippine olden times.
Pacete: Vigan and Silay
THE recent visit of Mayor Eva Marie Medina of Vigan City in Silay was a pleasant surprise. She was accompanied by her husband, Ferdie, the former mayor, and Vice Mayor Lulu Baquiran. With them were 80 members of the Lakbay – Aral Group composed of councilors, department heads and officials of...
De los Santos: Tupas, Drilon shame people of Iloilo
I CANNOT see how Iloilo should be proud of its two sons in Congress. Cong Neil Tupas, the lead prosecutor in Corona’s impeachment trial, has been regaling the media with Corona’s alleged sins, notwithstanding the impeachment courts’ admonition against trying Corona by publicity. In fact, his...
Legaspi: Envy and too much ambition?
ENVY has been listed by the Catholic Church as one of the 7 Cardinal Sins. It is an ill-feeling against one’s success or one’s gain. Everyone of us, as sinners, are infected by such sin. But the degree of the infection differs and depends upon one’s foundation.
Usually this is the “fault...
Bautista: EL REY (The King)
FREQUENT trips here and abroad with my dad were something I have always looked forward to, even as a child. Driving to Sagada, or Legazpi was such a thrill and an adventure. Tagging along in his many meetings and conventions as a “saling pusa” or so I thought was pleasurable. He would involve me...
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...
Cayading: Parents, give importance to your kid’s feeling!
MARGARET Thatcher, former prime minister of England, once said: “One of the great problems of our age is that we’re governed by people who care more about feelings more than they do about thoughts and ideas.” Well, it is equally accurate to say that “one of the greatest problems of our age is...
Dumaguing: Fast facts about cervical cancer
WE ARE delighted to inform our dear readers that we have been getting a lot of texts and calls from different sectors of the community requesting for a certain disease or a problematic medical issue to be discussed in a manner easily understood by Juan and Juana de la Cruz.
A group of...
Del Rosario: Christian leadership
LAST Jan. 24, I was privileged to have been invited as the guest speaker by the Bankers Institute of the Philippines (BAIPHIL) at the ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. I was asked to talk about “Christian Leadership in the Workplace.”
Padilla: Donaire wins, para-gamer Ancheta scores, Kennon global run set
OUR heartwarming congratulations to Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire Jr. Last Sunday, he successfully fashioned out a split majority decision against Puerto Rican Wilfredo Vasquez to capture the vacant WBA superbantamweight championship title for his fourth boxing weight division crown held...
Bennett: Session Café
SESSION Café and Restaurant was Chinese- Filipino restaurant located at the corner of Felipe Calderon Street and Session Road from July 23, 1953 to 1985.
The restaurant was established and owned by 33-years-old Baguio born Jaime T. Tong. For more than 32 years of operation, the business...
Balweg: The Cartoon is not just a Cartoon
TWO Saturdays ago, the cartoon page of this paper hit the nail on the head in its depiction. (Double salute to cartoonist Rey Somera!) For in the heart of tribal conflicts in the Cordilleras, among others, is land dispute. There are disputes within a tribe and there are disputes between tribes...
Editorial: Revisiting RP-US relations
REP. Walden Bello of the party-list group Akbayan was correct when he urged the House of Representatives and the Senate to closely monitor talks between officials of the Philippines and the United States.
US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro is in...
Libre: Big day out
AFTER 18 years of rocking Auckland with some of the world’s biggest music acts, Big Day Out called it quits with dwindling ticket sales and escalating costs. It had hosted such acts as Chemical Brothers, Metallica, The Prodigy, Neil Young, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Marilyn Manson, Foo...
Wenceslao: How Corona operates
I LIKE the post I saw in Facebook yesterday that showed a photo of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona and his wife standing in the terrace of the Supreme Court being contrasted with that of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife standing in the balcony of Malacañang. It was...
Nalzaro: Minglanilla priests, lay ministers reconcile
ALL'S well that ends well, so to speak. The Team Ministry of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Minglanilla and lay ministers who demanded the transfer of the priests for committing immoral acts have reconciled.
This following a dialogue with Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma...
