BE THE MIRACLE

Everybody waits for the miracle. But the truth is all of us are a symbol of miracle for others. The right moment and opportunity will come although some may act properly while others may not.                                                                                                                              AVV912               There are a lot of people who ask for a miracle and wasted all their precious time on… Read More »

Ways with words

Did you come across that comic strip in the Saturday Star just last week? Two characters were conversing. One was surprised to see the other. “I thought you were in Boston to visit you parents,” one of them remarked. The other narrated what happened to him.” “I went to the airport for my flight to Boston,” he began.… Read More »

Aquino quick to the defense of Puno

The brouhaha over an alleged attempt by DILG Undersecretary Rico E. Puno to enter the condominium unit of the late DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo on the very first day the latter went missing after a plane crash couldn’t have come at a worse time for Puno’s shooting buddy and benefactor President Noynoy Aquino.   Aquino didn’t even have… 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 »

‘Daang matuwid’ has turns on election year?

The appointment of two Liberal Party stalwarts to highly sensitive Cabinet posts signals the start of a three-year long campaign of President Aquino’s party to hold on to Malacanang for six more years after Aquino’s term expires in 2016.   Last week, Aquino named LP president Mar Roxas, his running mate in the 2010 elections, as head of… Read More »

The 2016 presidential race is on!

Well, folks, the 2016 presidential race is on! And as we get closer to Election Day –that’s four short years away – the battle would intensify and get really nasty… I mean, very nasty! Indeed, no sooner had Mar Roxas been sworn in as the new Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) than… Read More »

NORA, LOVI TO ATTEND TORONTO FILMFEST

If plans don’t miscarry Nora Aunor and Lovi Poe will grace the Toronto Film Festival this month after attending the Venice Film Festival. The two are the stars of the official Philippine entry Thy womb. Its helmer, the internationally acclaimed director Brilliante Mendoza, definitely would grace the said film fests too.. The movie’s plot wobbles on the ethnic… Read More »

Non attribution is also plagiarism

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Attorney Hector Villacorta apologized to American Sarah Pope for not attributing to her blog (combination of the terms web and log) a portion of a speech he prepared for his boss, Sen. Vicente Sotto, III, but Mr. Sotto’s chief of staff’s apology left a bad taste in the mouth. The apology did not carry remorse… Read More »

Taming Nature’s fury

MANILA Believe it or not some Philippine communities in the areas ravaged by the monsoon rains in the first week of August are still flooded. And even when the water goes away, there will be a lot of cleaning up to do and picking up of the lives of the flood’s victims. In the aftermath of typhoon Ondoy… Read More »