Category Archives: Guest Writer

When One plus One Is Not Equals Two

There comes a time in a mind’s winter years when the need to be assured of its vigor must be faced with gallantry instead of trepidation. If only to bolster confidence that Mr. Alzheimer is yet far albeit lurking in the distant horizon. A way to do that is by recalling decades before events and people in one’s… Read More »

THE ENRILE – TRILLANES ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVE

As the title suggests unequivocally, this piece or any its part is not to level criticisms to either or both of the Philippine Senators as they take positions in the current China question. The academic perspective always seek if not lead to further illumine the issue. Senator Enrile cries treason. While Senator Trillanes claims to be only a… Read More »

When Bamboos Grew Wild!

By Lee Lagda Guest Writer               A few years ago, I wrote to Professor Patricia Callasan of Pamantasan Ng Lungsod Ng Maynila (literally, University of Manila) and a University of the Philippines classmate of mine. She is a very good friend who now calls France home. I wrote her of both bitter and sweet memories “that somehow… Read More »

The Dilemma of Noynoy and the Other Life of Gloria

After two years in office President Noynoy it is hoped, have already realized that the problems of the country as if imbued with an unstoppable dynamic force continue to interlink, to meld and weld in increasing numbers, in increasing strength, and as a defiant force to constitute a dilemma impossible to solve during his remaining four years in… Read More »

THE RAINS OF WRATH, THE WRATH OF IGNORANCE

The fury of nature; the backlash of neglect; the anger of hatred; the funny superstition of the pious; the vengeance of retard minds; surviving, moving on, away from reality. These are the article titles that came to mind as I began writing this piece. Instead of just mere words strung together I need paragraphs to flesh out these… Read More »

SPEECH THAT IS PRESIDENTIAL

Yesterday (July 24, 2012) I watched through the internet President Aquino delivered his third SONA before Congress. I am still to figure out why only three days after full media coverage the SONA seemed to have become dead old news. Instead of gloating over or criticizing it, media and the people must have wisely, had moved on to… Read More »

Sister Act

Laughter is best medicine Sometimes a bad joke is a dose for a killing. Yet laughter is the best medicine. I subscribe to this old adage but many don’t for one reason or another. Whether we laugh or not, a little bit of humour would change our sometimes boring or regimented way of life in search of those… Read More »

ANG SIKRETO NG TUNAY NA SONA (Ikalawang Bahagi)

Bakit si Noynoy ay parang isang bangaw lang . . . Noong 2009 panahon pa lang ng kampanya para maging presidente itinungayaw ni Noynoy sa buong kapuluan ang pundasyon ng plataforma at palakad (policy) ng kanyang administrasyon kapag siya ang nanalo. Sundan dito sa website ng Pangulo ang kanyangang kanyang itinaga sa bato: http://www.gov.ph/about/gov/exec/bsaiii/platform-of-government/ Marami, pero seguro tama… Read More »

Don’t Let Toronto Die

“Don’t let me die. Save me.” Joshua Yasay Gangs, gangs, gangs. City bang bang. Deaths, deaths, deaths. The City of Toronto is in shambles. Not yet. But soon. Unless the government and the civil society will join hands in battling the fire of violence and creeping deaths which are spreading like wildfire in Ontario’s capital city. Torontonians still… Read More »

SPEECH THAT IS PRESIDENTIAL

Yesterday (July 24, 2012) I watched through the internet President Aquino delivered his third SONA before Congress. I am still to figure out why only three days after full media coverage the SONA seemed to have become dead old news. Instead of gloating over or criticizing it, media and the people must have wisely, had moved on to… Read More »