By Al S. Mendoza THE filing of the certificate of candidacy is on, kicking off on October 1 and ending on October 8. Hey, rejoice! The circus is in town! A candidate may either withdraw or be substituted on or before November 15, 2021. The Filipino voter will elect…
By Leonardo Micua SO it was Senator Manny Pacquiao who was the earliest bird to file his certificate of candidacy before the Commission on Elections for the highest position of the land. He beat all prospective presidential candidates to the draw by being the first to file, which means…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo MY dad’s garden was a garden of necessity. He planted for nourishment. We had abundant supply of pechay, ampalaya, kabatiti, patola, upo, kjalabasa, pallang, kardis, saluyot and some others whose names I have forgotten. We had mangoes, papayas, bayabas, lomboy, various citrus fruits. The neighbors…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano A GOOGLE search of “ism” yields Merriam-Webster’s definition of the suffix which means a manner of action or behavior characteristic of a specified person or thing. Examples of isms are: racism, plagiarism, ageism and witticism. Like some words, “ism” has acquired another meaning or…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE NBA 2021-2022 regular season starts on October 19 and some of the league’s teams are encountering domestic hitches due to the refusal of some of their respective cagers to be inoculated, mainly because of their religious beliefs and constitutional rights. The first of the…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read on www.moral-shortstory.blogspot.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. A MOTHER was very fond of her only son. When he married, she felt that he was more attached to his wife than…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. I just lost another dear friend in Pangasinan – Ex Exconde. He passed away last Saturday September 18, not from Covid but from aneurysm at age 92. I actually wondered what Ex’s real first name was when I first met him at the Rotary Club…
By Al S. Mendoza WHY do people run for President? What’s with it? Isn’t the position a pain in the ass? You serve at least 110 million people to begin with. What a load of responsibility. It’s like scaling Mt. Everest 10 times over. To lead 12 persons alone…
By Leonardo Micua BELIEVE me, the COVID-19 pandemic will soar even higher because of the coming political season that will start October 1 to 8 with the filing of CoCs by all prospective candidates and by groups eyeing to be among the front runners in the party list race. We just…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THERE are friends we can entrust some of our secrets, although there are very few of them, not more than half the total count of our fingers. In these fingers, the secrets live a life, free and unconstrained, in total trust and acceptance, and thrive,…
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