Social media’s influence on student’s academic performance By John Fernandez SOCIAL media are online technology platforms that help to connect people together far and near. Social Media has been defined as websites which allow profile creation and visibility of relationships between users to communicate in one another, to seek information…
Unity in city council By Gonzalo Duque WE attended the reunion of our San Beda Class 1976 to honor a fellow Bedan, former Congressman and former Executive Secretary Dondon Bagatsing, also an educator like us, for being appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as new ambassador of the Philippines to India….
aKISSaKISSaKISS By MAMI A kiss is a light touch or a pressing of one’s lips against the lips of another person, an animal, or an object. Everyone knows that. But not everyone knows that hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, a love-smitten boy did not ecstatically announce to…
Be Bold, and Mighty Forces will Come to Your Aid – Alexander the Great By Camilla D. Fernandez BACK in my Junior High School, I remember myself standing on a platform in front of hundreds of people. At that moment, my heart raced like I was about to jump off…
The better general By Gonzalo Duque TO me, Mayor Belen Fernandez did not lose the last election. In fact, she won as she succeeded in putting eight members of her Team Belen in the Sangguniang Panglunsod. The eight of course includes Vice Mayor-elect Bryan Kua, the incoming presiding Officer who defeated Brian’s…
Crying Baby By MAMI ORIGAMI refers to the Japanese art of folding plain or colored paper into visual art – boxes birds, butterflies, flowers, hearts, etc. But, when kids with their tiny, pudgy fingers can turn out insightful though clumsy interpretation of the things they usually encounter in their small…
“Killing” Belen by disinformation By Gonzalo Duque CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners in the just concluded elections. Ditto to the losers, especially to those who put up a good fight and gave the winners some sleepless nights and, euphemistically, a run for their money till they were nosed out in the…
Let’s be friends again By Gonzalo Duque MAY 13 is the day of reckoning for all the candidates who used all their savvy and arsenals in order to outshine their opponents. After the elections, I hope that everything will return to normal–for friends to be in each other’s arm as friends….
Millennials options this summer By Shawn Luc Fernandez / Camilla D. Fernandez SUMMERTIME for youths like us is a time for beaches, meeting relatives, enjoying time with the family, and other cool stuff. Sometimes, the time is numerous for us just to bum around, play DOTA, and even sleep and…
Enough of madiLIM in Dagupan By Gonzalo Duque WE believe that for Dagupan to continue its surge as the richest city in Region 1 per the evaluation of the Commission on Audit, Mayor Belen should be given her third and final term of office. We see chaos and confusion if…
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