February 24 declared a special non-working day SWS: 62% of Pinoys say spirit of EDSA still alive — President Marcos has declared Feb. 24 a special non-working day throughout the country, applying the holiday economics principle on the anniversary of the EDSA people power revolution, the uprising that ousted his father and namesake. The declaration is contained… Read More »
By: Edwin Anyayahan Esteba SANA ALAM MO ANG TAMA Lahat ng bagay ibinibigay sa iyo Lahat ng gusto mo ay kanyang suportado Pero bakit nagagawa mo pang magloko? Mahal ka nya pero iyong ginagago Ikaw ang walang taong kasiyahan Pamilya hindi mo pinapahalagahan Iniisip mo lamang sariling kaligayahan Hirap at pagod niya hindi mo masuklian Maraming tao ang… Read More »
Being the first Batch of students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila when it opened in 1967 as the first tuition-free university in the Phillippines—they are your Kuya and Ate, the eldest in the Pamantasan family. Being a scholar does not mean all work and no play; it’s not all study, study and study. Remember this song,… Read More »
The Three Wise Men “A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a… Read More »
How could we ever forget Dr. Rolando Carbonell’s Beyond Forgetting? The poem’s lyrics will constantly reverberate in our hearts and mind, especially when we remember the special people who have shown us the power of true love. This poem, penned by Carbonell in the early 60s, is a famous love poem that most of us—the baby boomers—will never… Read More »
“A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant… Read More »
Ni Edwin Anyayahan Esteba Lilipas din Sa pagdating ng ating kaarawan Edad ay nadaragdagan Kumukupas ang kakisigan Naglalabasan ang mga uban Para sa akin ay numero lamang yan Sa pagtanda natin iisa lang patutunguhan Hiram na buhay sa Diyos nakalaan Kamatayan natin hindi mapipigilan Bakit ito ay iyong kinatatakutan? Lahat naman doon ating pupuntahan Pero ito ay pwede… Read More »
“Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem, / Difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias. It is hard to abruptly shrug off a long-established love, / Hard, but this somehow you must do.” – Robert Galbraith, Lethal White. I see her but she doesn’t see me. I pass her by with her friends and classmates, but not a glance… Read More »
The perils of being old(er) I watched Don Lemon’s interview with Clive Davis, Whitney Houston’s agent/record producer. He was 90 years old. I asked myself, would I be so lucky to be as smart and coherent as this man? There was no hint of him being a pre-boomer generation of older people. The man insists that retirement is… Read More »
Canadians love dogs and treat them as part of their family. Imagine all the time and effort going well into caring for these dogs. Never mind the expense of providing them with pet food, drugs and medical treatment when sick. Of course, they, too, need vaccinations to be healthy. All time of the day, in all kinds of… Read More »