A different 2018 Le Tour de Filipinas By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. THE 2018 Le Tour de Filipinas (LTdF) bikefest is already in progress. And, after five years of skipping our province’s national roads and importantly as a lap terminal, a policy that puzzled me, the organizers finally decided…
Don’t Worry! By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story or an article I read in a page in www.inspire21.com. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. YEARS ago, I was enthralled as I listened to a pastor who for several years had faithfully served the church….
IGËL Nën Melchor Espeleta Orpilla IGËL – (pangingaran/noun) say kipapasen ya ag makagalaw so intiron laman o dinan man a parti’y lama’y too odino ayëp lapud asigpit o wala’y malët ya akasulong ëd sikato. Saray malís to/its conjugation/inflection: naigël, nanaigël/naiigël, naigël (say malís-arapën [future tense] tan malís-ayari [past tense])…
VOTE-BUYING TRENDS — What did you receive during the campaign for the recent barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections? Rice, sardines, noodles? Kuya /Ate, may calamity? Or were some of the candidates so health conscious that they opted to distribute tilapia, bangus or galunggong instead? Fish be with you was their…
Mandatory drug tests By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF there’s anything that makes this year’s barangay and SK elections memorable and significant, it is the introduction of two electoral policies, albeit unofficial: The posting of a list by the PNP that identifies, exposes and discredits incumbent barangay officials seeking reelection…
En garde! By Gonzalo Duque WE wrote this a couple of days before the Barangay and SK elections, and yet, many of our people were still in a quandary if the political exercise would really happen. Those who mean well like most of us, anyway, are working for its…
Cleveland’s James is king of world basketball By Al S. Mendoza EVERY basketball generation has its own star. On home shores, Caloy Loyzaga it was from the Fifties to the Sixties. In 1954, Loyzaga was in the Mythical Five in the World Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil….
Liket (Happiness) By Virginia J. Pasalo WHAT makes you happy? We all have a barometer for what constitutes happiness, in the same manner that the World Happiness Report (WHR) and the Gallup Poll have defined theirs. We are a happy lot, according to the WHR 2018, which ranked the…
Unsurpassed Pangasinan cycling records By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WHENEVER a Pangasinense wins a national cycling tour, our national sports scribes always say that our province is the hotbed, breeding ground or the cradle of Philippine cycling. Yes, they’re absolutely right. But unknown to many (except my age and cycling…
IGSAY Nën Melchor Espeleta Orpilla IGSAY – (pamalinawa/verb) say masyadon idiking o iyuko na akaalagëy a too, paalagëy (building), abong odino antokaman a bëngatlan akaalagëy, a ngalngali lan natumba. Saray malís to/its conjugation/inflection: immigsay, oniigsay, onigsay. ALIMBAWA: 1. Immigsay ira’y angakatagëy iran paalagëy ëd Dagupan nën yimmëgyëg na…
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