Editorial: To know is to love
BEING informed is romantic, too.
We must put a premium on getting accurate information to save and improve our lives. This is the valuable insight from Feb. 6, 2012, when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake and rumors of a tsunami spread panic among crowds in Cebu.
Wenceslao: Will SC provide the ending?
WILL the Supreme Court present an ending to the impeachment trial of its own chief justice, Renato Corona? That is an interesting question to answer as the senator-judges of the Senate acting as an impeachment court discuss today the issuance by the High Court of a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing them from looking into Corona’s dollar accounts in Philippine Savings Bank (PS Bank).
Nalzaro: Getting a scolding
JUST recently, a group of deans and professors from the University of the Philippines visited the Capitol upon the invitation of Gov. Gwen Garcia. They thought they were invited to a party or for a dialogue on how to operate the Cebu Performing Arts (CPA) building, which is inside the UP Visayas campus in Lahug. The building, which was constructed using Capitol funds during the administration of former governor Vicente “Tingting” de la Serna, was supposed to be a student dormitory. However, the building stood empty for several years until last year, when Garcia’s administration renovated it to be used as a theater. Since then it has hosted several local and international events.
Seares: Prosecuting the ‘scare monger’
TRYING to impress President Noynoy Aquino, who wanted scare-mongers caught and punished, police last Friday charged a radio block-timer with public disorder.
Two witnesses said they saw and heard Danilo Cogtas shout “tsunami” near the Pasil Fish Market in Cebu City last Feb. 6, after an earthquake struck Cebu and Negros Oriental.
Many shouted “tsunami” but only Cogtas is being sued. All the other criers got away.
Mongaya: Corona 8
EIGHT Supreme Court (SC) justices voted for a temporary restraining order on the opening of dollar bank accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona by the Senate impeachment court.
After the opening of peso accounts in two banks that showed several millions that Chief Justice Corona failed to report in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALNs), the impeachment court is now moving to open the dollar accounts.
Echaves: Ageing gracefully
WOW! Makaabot kaha ta anang edara noh? (Can we even reach that age?)”
So exclaimed everyone when my father turned 94 last month. Awesome, too, were an elderly couple in Manila featured on TV. The husband was 101 years old and the wife, 100.
Of course, good genes help. My father’s grandfather, Gen. Saturnino Echavez of the Spanish revolution and after whom a street in the city is named, lived up to the ripe old age of 79.
Respect and care for one’s health, simplicity and spirituality make up the rest. Compare people who’ve lived long and you see common denominators.
Pangan: Love, Unrequited
TOMORROW may see the global observance of Valentine's Day, in every imaginable way, manner or forum, degree and intensity.
Mercado: February
THE cold winds of the Yuletide season had segued on to shivering January with its monsoon breezes ushering the balmy days of February.
We still wake up on cold lazy morning curious as to President Noy's future with Ms. Grace Lee and little confused about our own destiny according to forecasts in the lunar new year.
The Pampanga countryside, the fields a soft brown with early summer, promises a year of abundance. The Chinese dragon has descended in the province, quick and unforgiving. It has taken its toll in lives through accident, gunfire, or salvage killing.
Sapnu: ACPO Pinaganda ni Recomono
MGA ilang buwan nang maupo si Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Recomono Jr. bilang Angeles City police director, sinimulan nitong ayusin ang police headquarters sa Camp Tomas Pepito.
Unang pinaayos ni Recomono ang kalsada sa loob ng Angeles City Police Office (ACPO) mula sa gate hanggang sa administrative building.
Sa pamamagitan ng Friends ni City Director, marami itong napaayos sa ACPO at ngayon ay halos maganda na ang nasabing Police Office.
Valle: Gentle giant
WHAT can be more profound an expression of love than a quite demonstration of affection that does not need words? Words can sometimes interfere in the way express themselves to each other, and ironically, silence sometimes can articulate true feelings or the dictates of the heart.
Mendoza: Love day
DIRECTOR'S Cut: (This portion features the thoughts of DepEd 11 Regional Director Susana Teresa B. Estigoy, CESO IV to all stakeholders and recipients of the efforts to improve the basic education) I do not consider my job as plain work -- rather it is my LIFE. "We have to continually examine what succeeds and fails, and why. We have to uphold and live true to our battle cry and slogan of governance: “Education For All (EFA) 2015: Karapatan ng Lahat, Pananagutan ng Lahat."
Bunye: Overspending and budgeting
IN THE last month, I have been writing about the efforts of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ Financial Consumer Affairs Group (FCAG) in disseminating helpful consumer tips, especially in light of post-holiday debts.
Cayading: Why is saving important?
PEOPLE whom this writer encountered are always telling me they’re saving, and then when I ask what their goal is, they tell me it’s to buy a new car, go on a lovely vacation with the kids, or put in a new kitchen wares, furniture, etc.... you name it, they have it. Well, this is “SAVING”… not in my lecture notes or book. If you’re accumulating money to spend – be it on a house, on a new motorcycle or on your children’s, friends’ or relatives’ birthday present – that’s planned spending. You’re planning to spend the money, right? How can that be “saving?”
Capili: Organizing real estate professionals
(We are sharing this information and announcement on the organization of real estate service practitioners coming the National Office of PhilRES through its Secretary General Josefina D. Magumcia)
Luzano: Second floor a kalsada
ARAMID dagiti adu a drivers ditoy Baguio—singit dita, ditoy ditoy. Kaasi piman dagiti naanus nga agpaspasensia. Dagiti narasok, agkatkatawada ta nalalaingda kano a drivers. Ngen no madisgrasyakayo, isangityo pay ti agpakawan ken agpakumbaba. Naudin ti amin. Agbaliwkan kabsat. Saludsod: Apay a nagadu dagiti matiltiliw gapu iti smoke-belching ken obstruction… apay nga awan ti matiltiliw iti RECKLESS DRIVING? Kuna dagiti sutil: BAKA DIDA AMMO ti kayat a sawen ti RECKLESS DRIVING. Ti ammoda ket SCREW DRIVER A NADAWEL!
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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 warnings of a tsunami, after Monday’s 6.9 magnitude earthquake.
Fright spread after radio blocktimer Danilo Cogtas reportedly barreled through town yelling: Tsunami is about to swamp downtown areas! That claim ricocheted through cell phones and the Internet.
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 waxing futuristic about it, pride is fine. True, but only as long as it’s not pulling our leg and taking us for a ride into false assumptions of ascendancy.
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 the classroom. My teachers wanted to shut me up. Each time I’d form a bond with my seatmate, they’d move me somewhere else. In the end, I ended up chatting up the entire class.
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, if not the enormity, of the problem last Thursday during a conference in Rome.
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. She went home.
A short-cropped girl, Arlene hardly stood out among the other vendors in the warren of stalls our group dropped by for about 20 minutes before proceeding to the airport.
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. Philippines has been considered as a democratic society where the people should enjoy their rights including the right to education, housing, health care, and work. But with the current education situation in our country, can we still see democracy?
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 one who got away. Why not?
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.
