Category Archives: Editorial

Henry Sy’s Keys to Success

Who’s Henry Sy? Is he rich and successful? If so, why talk about him? Why not just relish on the successes of Donald Trump of The Apprentice or Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Nebraska? Henry Sy has inspired millions of people from the Philippines and around the globe because of how he built his business empire; how he… Read More »

The saga of Jun Lozada

He was in tears when he first surfaced in the Philippines’ national consciousness. It was 2 a.m. of Feb. 7, 2008 when Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. appeared in a hastily called press conference at the De La Salle Greenhills to reveal that he had been kidnapped at the airport upon his arrival from Hongkong by police officials, and… Read More »

The enigma of Corregidor

There is no greater story in the annals of World War II than the courage and human endurance that is Corregidor.. a little island at the mouth of Manila Bay . Dubbed as the “Gibraltar of the East “referring to that European bastion near Spain, impregnable to a point, it was the Filipinos and Americans’ last stand on… Read More »

Communite with nature in summer!

…and how to protect yourself from the sun’s damaging heat… Global warming is slowly being felt. As of this time, it is still tolerable, and yet when people start feeling the real and deadly effects of the sun’s power, that time may already be irreversible. AVV409 Summertime is for outdoor fun. It is the best time everybody looks… Read More »

The haste to pin down a critic

I am an avid viewer of NCIS, the popular series on CBS about naval crime investigators. Although Gibbs and company are sticklers for the integrity of crime scenes, I have yet to see them haul away husbands or relatives from dying victims’ deathbed for jeopardizing or contaminating the crime scene. They do suspect ill motive for wiping bloods… Read More »

Usurer’s Ultimate Urgh

Up to now, it is still a puzzle as to who came first the usurer or the borrower. It is probably as puzzling as determining who came first the egg or the chicken. In the barrio during the yesteryears, there was such a userer or “loan shark”. A widow of about fifty with no children, Aling Goreng was… Read More »

Lenten Legacy

Taller and heavier than most of his friends of his age in the quiet barrio, Turing grew up with his younger brother Atoy under the care of their grandparents. No one in the barrio seemed to know the parents of these two boys and their grandparents refused to talk about them. Some said that the parents of the… Read More »

Now who’s ‘A nation of servants”?

That controversial Hong Kong journalist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines as a “nation of servants “ must be suffering from “historical Alzheimer”. Did he forget that the word “Amah” originated from his country of origin which means, a servant or a nanny ? Today, Filipinos all over the world serving as caregivers or nannies have given the… Read More »

Cha-cha tempo rises

Despite denials by officials and allies of the Arroyo administration, it is becoming obvious that they will move heaven and earth to push through with amending the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is no secret in the House of Representatives that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s son, Rep. Mikey Arroyo, has been making the rounds of congressmen’s offices or meeting with… Read More »