“It’s more fun in the Philippines.” Don’t you believe it? Of course, you do! Of course, I do! As a Filipino who has missed all the fun in the Philippines after 20 years of living outside the country, I can truly say “It’s more fun in the Philippines!” “It’s more fun in the Philippines.” The slogan, which was… Read More »
I should not surprise us anymore that despite the difficulties of the past few years, the Filipinos remain as optimistic as ever of the coming year. Hope springs eternal for Filipinos as shown by a survey last year by both Pulse Asia and the Social Weather Station that showed 89% or nearly nine of ten Filipinos face the… Read More »
For Filipinos who have been outside of the Philippines for years, Christmas is both a time for rejoicing and a time for remembering. Even as the Filipino in America begins to feel the holiday mood immediately after Thanksgiving when people start shopping for gifts and Christmas decors, he feels at the same time a longing for home. For… Read More »
I am not a fan of Chief Justice Renato Corona or the so-called Arroyo Court. In fact, I have criticized them many times in the past. And yet, I don’t feel good about President Noynoy Aquino’s bullying tactics against Corona, the Supreme Court and basically the entire judiciary. It is natural for the aggrieved parties or even non-litigants… Read More »
In physics, there is a law called “Newton’s third law” or the “law of conservation of momentum” which basically states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” For example, if you jump from a boat, the force of your jump pushes the boat backwards, or as the bullet is fired from a gun, the… Read More »
The timing was suspicious, but the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to order the distribution of some 4,915 hectares of land in what is known as the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac to 6,296 farmer-beneficiaries could not have come at a better time. The decision ended more than 40 years of difficult, often bloody, struggle for the poor… Read More »
I know that many people have been doing some Monday morning quarterbacking on the lackluster victory of Manny Pacquiao over Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez. But I’ve been doing this for many years, and it’s not the time to stop now. There is no doubt in my mind that Pacquiao won the fight, although not as convincingly as he… Read More »
One would think someone who is no longer in power would be less arrogant. But such is not the case with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Instead of continuing to plead for compassion so that the government would finally allow her to travel abroad supposedly for medical treatment of a rare bone disease, her spokesperson is now threatening to bring… Read More »
The world has indeed become one global village, as the late Canadian philosopher and scholar Herbert Marshall McLuhan had predicted 30 years before the creation of the World Wide Web or what we now know as the internet. In the Sixties, McLuhan wrote in his book “The Gutenberg Galaxy” that the visual, individualistic print culture would soon be… Read More »
In the past few weeks, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Sonny Belmonte have been pushing for Congress to convene itself into a constituent assembly to introduce amendments to the 1987 Philippine Constitution. Less than 10 months ago, Belmonte would have none of it. He said then that the cha-cha was not among the priorities of… Read More »