By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 1995 five-day Tour of Pangasinan bikefest dubbed as “OO Na, Takbo Na” became the standard for competitive cycling among the Pangasinan cycling enthusiasts who participated. Today, the same contestants, most of whom are already retired, keep asking me if there will be a…
By Rex Catubig LIKE an exclamation point to the shrill wheezing of the disc grinder cutting through the metal tubes for my fence , a ping sounded on my messenger that opened to a very casual message asking if I could accommodate a merienda meeting among a couple of…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read on www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: ‘Daddy,…
By Jing Villamil Three years ago, this poem I wrote, only for my knight. Now, as events unfold, it seems we shall have to take it out of the “baul”, shake it free of the dust it had gathered. We shall read it again. For my knight. And for…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE sun was out shining in Dagupan City for two days but like a curse, the city’s main streets and district area were still severely flooded. But not one belonging to the city’s Flood Mitigation Commission, created in 2019, to craft a master plan to…
By Al S. Mendoza THE nation awaits the coming of the last candidate with bated breath. Who might that be? Sara Duterte, the current mayor of Davao City. A bit of trivia: Davao is the world’s largest city, where it is also home to the world’s only monkey-eating eagle….
By Leonardo Micua AS I was writing this piece, it was the fourth day of the flood in Dagupan, the highest flood the city ever seen for four days despite the fact that Typhoon Maring had already left the country days earlier. It didn’t surprise anyone to see some…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IT was an experience, unexpected and unpredictably dangerous trek. My nephew, JC, thought his head was going to be staked in a bamboo after the vehicle he rode in skidded 30 kilometers per hour going down a ravine 20 feet below, so he ducked his head….
By Atty. Farah G. Decano MY father had told us, his children, to use our God-given intelligence in ascertaining the truth. He instructed us never to give up our own judgments in favor of another who is as fallible as anybody, even if he or she were a chief…
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