By Rex Catubig (Note: Rehash of excerpt from my email to friends–Chronicle of A San Francisco Weekend–about our weekend together). AT around five thirty, the sun’s dazzle had begun to mellow and be embraced by twilight. It has been a most exhilarating afternoon thus far but it was time…
By Rex Catubig SOME wonder why the Jayceekens love to have breakfast and meetings at the unkept PNR Heritage site. And for good reason. After all, the dusty ground, crawling ants and falling insects from the Duhat tree, aggravated by the piercing morning sun, can turn off the…
By Rex Catubig (Note: This is an updated version of my opening remarks at the Darapilan Art Exhibition held in conjunction with the National Arts Month at the so-called Saudi Building in DCNHS campus in February 2020). THERE’S a poem by Langston Hughes inscribed on a flexiglass divider at…
By Rex Catubig “INTSIK tsonga”, “Tsikwa”– are just two of the monikers they are condescendingly called, implying disdain in the way they are regarded. Which reveals our bias and cultural ignorance. My father was privileged to enjoy a close association with the Chinese in the lumber business. I grew…
By Rex Catubig THEY begin sprouting around the market area towards sundown–the pale gold sunrays shooting through the smoke of charcoal grills. Past the billowing smoke of barbeque pork, isao, and other exotic chicken parts, one encounters the delightful sight of a pancake stand with perfectly round pancakes cooking…
By Rex Catubig WHILE the hotly debated issue of where Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed along the Lingayen Gulf’s color-coded beaches may never be resolved, the one incontrovertible fact that we Dagupenos are rightly proud of and no one else can lay claim to, is upon his return, when he…
By Rex Catubig THEY were high school kids in their teens — tabula rasas eager to absorb colors and paint dreams. I was a young college grad bursting with idealism and desirous to impart social consciousness and awaken young minds to the harsh realities of a world in the…
By Rex Catubig IT was like high tide, as if the rivers and tributaries had overflowed and flooded the city. The ginormous crowd was like shoals of fish that were washed ashore and swarmed all over the downtown loop. The parade crowd and spectators for the city’s 75th Diamond Jubilee kickstart…
By Rex Catubig THE founding of the City Charter took place on June 20, 1947. It was the culmination of the fervent dream of the city fathers—embodied in Republic Act 170 that House Speaker Eugenio Perez, of neighboring historic San Carlos, authored and which was signed into law on…
By Rex Catubig THE fiesta frolic is lackluster minus a visit to the certified blockbuster feature — the holiday bazaar on Galvan Street. This street bonanza showcases a surreal array of motley clothing, walls of shoes and slippers, prismatic sunglasses adorning wire trees, cornucopia of food, fruits, vegetables, and…
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