A flood of Toyota memories—and more By Al S. Mendoza  TOKYO—After nine days in this massively huge, complex and challenging city that has a governor and not a mayor as the leader of 14 million or so of its inhabitants, I am heading for home. The trip was a bit…

None of our business, indeed By Al S. Mendoza   TOKYO — I am here again covering the Tokyo Motor Show, now on its 43rd year.  This is my 20th year in the event, having first covered it in 1993. Ah, how can I forego my chance to eat authentic…

Again, the answer is in the heart By Al S. Mendoza   TRAGEDY upon tragedy has struck the Aquino government. Barely has Mr. Aquino a.k.a. P-Noy warmed his seat at the Palace when the Luneta hostage drama that killed eight Hong Kong tourists happened in 2010. Next, two typhoons claimed…

Murderous Miriam unleashed—again By Al S. Mendoza   THE script was the same. She was sick and so, will someone please allow her to do her act ahead of the pack? We Filipinos are more fun than any other race. We love not to lose being a gentleman if given…

Cone does it again, but Pingris is my hero By Al S. Mendoza   THE beauty of the last championship clash in the PBA is that, although San Mig Coffee and Petron Blaze were sister teams, they fought tooth-and-nail so to speak. It made Ramon S. Ang, the San Miguel…

Another farce—and we just do nothing By Al S. Mendoza    WE hold another farce tomorrow a.k.a. barangay elections. It is a farce because it is another day when we allow again the politically powerful to impose its farcical force on the weak. It is a farce because it is…

Boring bouts and not-so-laughable jokes By Al S. Mendoza   IT was another boxing bore, all right. But who said it wasn’t to be? Minutes after the fight deal was inked, I immediately said it was going to be a bore in the magnitude of the Mayweather-Alvarez stinker. Only the…

It was nothing but show time By Al S. Mendoza   NOT the song but the singer. Thus, I like “Yesterday” with Paul McCartney on the vocals than anyone else. Or “Imagine” being done by John Lennon than anyone else. Or “Love Me Tender” being soloed by Elvis Presley than…

We were wrong all along, fellas By Al S. Mendoza   UNTIL the P10-billion scam hit newspaper headlines, we thought all along that our government has always been short of money. Until whistleblowers exposed a web of corruption that robbed us blind, we thought all along that our senators and…

Why it has come to this, only God knows By Al S. Mendoza   ALL this time that we scrounge for money to keep both ends meet, here are our politicians wallowing in cash. Aren’t all the elected our so-called servants? And, doesn’t P-Noy himself call us his boss? How…