By Farah G. Decano   I worry about my former colleagues in the Dagupan City Council who now belong to the opposition.  Joining the bandwagon of their haters is not my bag of chips because I only remember our good and innocent times.  As former city councilor, I had good…

By Farah G. Decano   MY ever-reliable college secretary told me that a certain senior male educator was in disbelief when I was awarded by the Lyceum Northwestern University a Special Achievement Award during the university’s Christmas party.  She understood his negative reaction to mean that I did not deserve…

By Farah G. Decano   2024 is around the corner. How do we prepare ourselves for the coming of the new year? What better way to start the turn of the calendar than to unload ourselves of those that burden our psyche and our soul? Has anyone offended us this…

By Farah G. Decano T’WAS past nine o’ clock at night when I finally decided to turn off the lights in the first floor, go up my bedroom and rest my tired half-a-century sexy body. Don’t get me wrong. It is always good to have a little amount of delusion for…

By Farah G. Decano   FROM January 2020 up to October 2023, the Philippines has lodged a whopping four hundred sixty-five diplomatic protests against China. Despite these numerous formal actions, the Asian superpower recently resumed its vexatious water canon attacks against our Philippine vessels on a resupply mission in the…

By Farah G. Decano   INSOFAR as foreign policy regarding the West Philippine Sea is concerned, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. seems to be on the right track.  Unlike his immediate predecessor, the younger Marcos courageously identified the aggressive Chinese conduct in that area as troubling and the culprit of the…

By Farah G. Decano             NOVEMBER 30 – celebrity Kathryn Bernardo confirms her break-up from actor Daniel Padilla. I didn’t expect that this news will explode on Philippine social media to epic proportions. Almost every scroll of my Facebook wall yielded posts about this unexpected separation.  Group chats (GC) and…

By Farah G. Decano   FORMER First Lady Imelda Marcos, during her heyday, knew how to throw parties. They were usually luxurious and grand. Remember her family’s yacht socials and celebrity-filled gatherings?  Looks like her son, the now President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is slowly following her footsteps. The gathering of…

By Farah G. Decano   IF given the chance to go back in time, what would you tell your younger self? Let’s say, your 11-year-old self? Most of those who undergo exercises like this presume that they are wiser, more mature and much better off than the earlier versions of…

By Farah G. Decano             SOME two weeks before the recent barangay elections, Francis Magalona’s paramour, Miss Abigail Rait, came out in public and proclaimed her love affair with the late rapper.  She later announced that she was running for barangay kagawad and even made use of the legendary singer’s…