Relax, enjoy a movie By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–I so miss the movies. It’s one of life’s little luxuries that we don’t get here. There are two movie houses in town, but these have seen better days. And they don’t really show films regularly and on those occasions that they…

Freedom and longevity By Jun Velasco THERE’S euphoria in the air. Those who dispute this are a sad minority. You see, due to bad habit, we Pinoys couldn’t believe the bad days are over. We remain cynical and don’t want to rise over our mindset that this beleaguered country can ever reach great heights.

From Alisto to Limisto, ayos! By Gonzalo Duque SINCE the inaugural of the late Gov. Paco Duque at the provincial capitol, we’ve attended no more than three such events. Of course, our own, when we were vice governor. Then on June 28, 20l0 at Gov. Spines’ stellar event. Try, again, Gov,…

The Justice System in the Philippines By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD HERE is an interesting thesis that those in the Executive Department of the present administration might want to seriously consider and thereafter decidedly act upon. This proposed agendum can neither be irrelevant nor vain – considering that this Country…

What’s wrong with the wang-wang? By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–Strangers to Philippine society and culture would be scratching their heads when they read, in the English translation, that part of our new President’s inaugural speech which struck a major nerve among Filipinos: “No more influence-peddling, no more patronage politics, no…

Noynoy’s ancestors originated in Pangasinan By Jun Velasco OVER a bottle of wine during a media event at the Makati Sports Club last Thursday, someone from the Yellow Force Movement, sidled up to us to say that members of the Aquino family have told him that they (Aquinos) originally lived…

No honeymoon for Noynoy? By Gonzalo Duque THE fireworks that crowd on P-Noy need not alarm us. They’re part of the territory. In fact, they are good signs of our freewheeling democracy. You’re right. The son of democracy-loving – Ninoy and Cory Aquino – will not mind living in cowboy-land….

Picture taking By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD This is but merely noting the obvious and simply expressing the evident. There is wherefore not an element of malice nor any iota of ill-will in this submission meant only to point out a former immediate certainty and a forthcoming hesitancy in the…

Cheering for our South Korean friends By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–I’ve caught the fever here. Football fever. I know I have seriously gotten the bug when I started to be able to name some of the players during chitchat. (It used to be that David Beckam was probably the only…

Noynoy’s backers in Pangasinan By Jun Velasco DID you know that during the campaign, Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas dined thrice at Dagupeña? People around were scrambling for space to get a piece of the next president, although no one then knew if he would win at the time. The…