By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS surprised to learn that my idol in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games American decathlete Bruce Jenner, who won the gold medal in the men’s decathlon event, decided to change his gender from male to female. Being his sports-contemporary and ardent fan,…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. “A shop owner placed a sign above his door that said: ‘Puppies For Sale.’ Signs like this always have a way of attracting young…
Damage souls still have worth
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Brian Lim administration made a mockery of the Dagupan bangus industry and the Bangus Festival with show of dispersal of bangus fingerlings at the Dawel River. It was obvious that he and his barkada didn’t really care if Dagupeños joined them to celebrate the…
Mockery with Bulacan Bangus Festival
By Al S. Mendoza I take pride in Kemark Carino being a member of the pool of players trying out for the Gilas Pilipinas basketball team. Kemark is from Mangatarem, becoming the first cager from my hometown to be drafted as a national player. Anytime, that is something to…
Basketball’s diamond-in-the-rough from Mangatarem
By Leonardo Micua A day or two before Dagupan was to hold its Bangus Festival on April 30, mayors or barangay officials were warned by President Duterte that they are liable and will be charged with dereliction of duty if they fail to enforce quarantine protocols and prevent the surge in COVID-19 cases in their respective…
PRRD to charge mayors, kapitans
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ROYGBIV, a guide my mother made me memorize to remember the colors of the rainbow, in the same manner that “Man Very Easily Makes Jokes So U Never Pout” ingrained itself in my memory as a guide to the first letters of the 9 planets….
The colors of the rainbow
Atty. Farah G. Decano PRESIDENT Duterte runs the country like a local government. By winning a plurality of the votes in 2016, he must have easily concluded that his voters wanted him to govern the Philippines that way. Or perhaps, he has been so entrenched in this LGU style…
Running the country like an LGU
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS shocked and sad upon learning the news from the internet that my friend and co-recording artist of Vicor Music Corporation/Plaka Pilipino Victor Wood met his untimely death last April 23 due to COVID-19 infection. Shocked because he called last February 27, and…
My friendship with Victor Wood, 75
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.advance-africa.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. A man asked why an old lady was all alone on a cruise ship. He noticed that although she was alone, all the…
An old lady in the cruise
By Jing Villamil SHE did not set out to write for the rest of this life. When she first set down her pen at ten years of age, it was for an aunt who had so much love for the world but none to keep for her own. The…




