Control lost! By Emmanuelle The Muslims, the Moros, the Ilagas, MILF, Bangsamoro, ultimatum, lost commands, terrorists, murderers, pillagers, bodies beheaded or decapitated, defiled. Of late, these words have the capacity to chill the spine of the most ordinary of citizens, but especially those who live in the Mindanao areas most…
The watched pot By Emmanuelle This study was carried out by psychologists, just to make a point: Two groups of the same number of people were introduced to a pot sitting plumply on a hotplate. The pot was shown to be half-filled with water. Then the hotplate was switched on…
Feelings
Beauty! By Emmanuelle YOUR friends call you Beauty or Ganda, but your boyfiend’s former girlfriend and her barkada tartly describe you as Pangit or Bruha. Who is the more believable harbinger of truth? Makes for more material behind the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, di ba?…
Feelings
Quartered! By Emmanuelle Many had lamented that justice is such a slowpoke in coming, if at all. It takes deliberately small measured steps, and it simply refuses to be hurried along. Interminable is a mild describe of the years it takes before the presiding judge harrumphs a pronouncement. By that…
Feelings
Halved! By Emmanuelle So, there really is an ending to this, after all. Concluding a non-ending is not as easy as one might think. Might as well un-Chinese a Chinese, but that would still be better than speculating on a spatula. The first is near impossible but probable. The second,…
Feelings
Pozorrubio SOMA: Of infrastructures and sectoral priorities By Emmanuelle It was supposed to be a formal legislative-executive function. In reality, it turned out to be a getting-to-know-you-more party for all – for the town leaders and their people. The SOMA started exactly at nine in the morning of July 2…
Feelings
Quartered! By Emmanuelle Rarely, actually almost never, do I write in the first person. This is one of the rare, actually almost never times. Not for the sole reason that the moment calls for the intervention of the first person, but. The moment calls for the intervention of the first…