PANGASINAN GAMES, why not? By Ermin Garcia Jr. EVEN before the ongoing 30th S.E.A. Games breaks up next week, lessons and opportunities are already learned and offered to us as a people, as Pangasinenses. Let’s start with the sports that we can excel in South East Asia arena. (Note: There’s a whale of difference in […]
Opinion
General Admission
2nd SEA Games crown virtually in the bag By Al S. Mendoza AS I write this, we are ahead by a whopping 32 gold medals over Vietnam. We are now way past the halfway mark of the 12-day Games and it will be next to impossible for Vietnam to overhaul our lead. More so with […]
G Spot
Single Blessedness By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I am not surprised that people have a certain curiosity about single persons. But I am surprised at some of the questions asked about them in the academe. Here is a list of the questions sent by a student as part of their academic requirements (quoted verbatim): 1. Please […]
Sports Eye
Urdaneta, Anda, Sto. Tomas quintets remain unbeaten By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER six days of skirmishes, win-loss records of three teams in their respective brackets remain untarnished in the ongoing 4th Governor’s Cup Pangasinan Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament being conducted in a home-and-away format. Led by defending champion Urdaneta City, the perennial eastern Pangasinan team […]
Learnings in Life
Date with a Woman By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read on Facebook in Moral Stories group page that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. Author Unknown AFTER 21 years of Marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said […]
Random Thoughts
Dagupan in a water world By Leonardo Micua A research study by the science organization Climate Central, published in many journals of the world (and readily available on the internet) gives us an impending bizarre scenario of what could happen to the planet in the next 30 years due to the impact of climate change. […]
Feelings
Restless in the dust! By Jing Villamil TEN years and thirteen days ago, 58 men and women, 32 of whom were journalists and stringers, were massacred in Sitio Masalay, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao. Their mangled bullet-drilled bodies were buried in wide shallow graves beside their cars equally mangled. The journalists were to cover the filing of […]
Punchline
Mayor Brian’s legacy mantra By Ermin Garcia Jr. I hope Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim was correctly quoted when he said “good government projects must not be stopped simply because of politics…” or something to that effect because if that was true, he has a great legacy waiting for him! Not too many politicians these days […]
General Admission
Getting baptized again at the Jordan River By Al S. Medoza OUT of love of my recent five-country swing, I collected objects that are meaningless if we go by strict standards. Leaves. Pebbles. Napkins. Commonly called now as the Holy Land Pilgrimage, my wife and I were with 50 Filipinos or so in the religious journey just […]
G Spot
The persistence of desire By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THREE friends give me daily doses of pain. The posts of Marcelo Estrada and William Peters, Sr. remind me that the world has been numbed by the deaths of children in Palestine. The poetry of Nizar Sartawi speaks of the annihilation of the human spirit, as it […]