Stephen Leacock Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.americanliterature.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. YOU might think that borrowing a match upon the street is a simple thing. But any man who has ever tried it will…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF the Lim administration in Dagupan City is still looking for ways to give meaning to its “Shared Responsibility,” it should look no further. The “P10K Ayuda, Ang Pag-asa” and “Sari-sari community Store”, the two advocacies of former House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, are about…
What “Shared Responsibility” is about
By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao is now in America preparing for his August 22 (PHL time) fight. He has been reunited with Freddie Roach, his legendary American trainer for 20 years or so now, at the famed Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, California. Pacquiao is set to…
Pacquiao starts on the wrong foot
By Leonardo Micua RAPPLER reported that the Department of Health has acknowledged on July 5 that two more cases of the highly-transmittable COVID-19 Delta variant, responsible for driving the surge in India, has entered the Philippines. Earlier, 17 COVID-19 patients were detected in genome sequencing of their specimens by the Philippine Genome Center,…
Watch out for Delta and Lambda variants
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I LOVE airplanes. As a young child, I would watch airplanes cruising in the blue sky, some quietly, some with cloud-like white tails. My uncle Opie, who was an Air Force pilot, used to write me letters, which my father read to me, about being…
Landing an Airplane in a Forest of Fireflies
By Atty. Farah G. Decano WHEN my genius of a friend finally changed her mind and agreed with my choices, I was astounded. “You are strange!” I said. “Why?” she asked. “People your caliber and age usually stubbornly stick to what they earlier pronounced. And here you are, manifesting…
The humility of a genius
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE talk of our country these days is the political word war between world-boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and our president Rodrigo Roa Duterte. Pacman’s bashers said the fighting lawmaker is not suited to run our troubled country, he does not have the education…
Pacman as politician; NBA finals
Kate Chopin Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read on www.americanliterature.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. I AM tired. At the end of these years, I am very tired. I have been studying in books the languages of the…
An Idle Fellow
By Ermin Garcia Jr. The PUNCH’s celebration of its 65th year of publishing and circulation is a significant milestone because it provides a ready journal of how cities and towns developed economically and culturally over 6 decades, who and which local politicians and political era made a deep impact…
Punching for 65 years!
By Al S. Mendoza I’M sure Manny Pacquiao is now nursing the regret of his life when he engaged President Duterte in a verbal combat. No one beats a sitting President at any given time. Isn’t there a saying that no one can defeat City Hall—the city mayor being…




