Funny, funnier, funniest By Al S. Mendoza PRESIDENT Aquino has Bam Aquino in his Liberal Party senatorial slate for the May 2013 polls. Vice President Binay has Nancy Binay in his UNA senatorial slate. Notice the difference? Well, as my L.A.-based friend Leonie Galvez loves to say, “The difference is…
Unopposed na! By Bebot Villar AS we rushed this piece to meet PUNCH’s deadline, may positive development sa Villasis. I’m sure, tuwang-tuwa ang mag-asawang ex-Mayor Nato at re-electionist Dita Abrenica dahil ang kalaban ni misis na si Butch Sison reportedly withdrew his certificate of candidacy. This makes Mayor Dita virtually…
Politics By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD FOR a start, it is but right and proper to state categorically and expressly that God cannot but be truly concerned with and attentive to the reality, the activity and finality of politics – even if only due to the fact that the latter’s…
PCCL connects the missing link By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNLIKE in the United States that has only one recognized national college champion in the field of amateur basketball which is called NCAA, the Philippines has at least eight groups of colleges that have their own format of national basketball…
A walk in the past! By Emmanuelle IN Coelho’s Alchemist, the boy’s heart told him ditzy things like “most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.” Zoom the perspective to the here and narrow, most…
Balitok a siglo Nen Santiago Villafania NIBAGAK ya ed sayan kailalakan sinmulming so balitok a siglo na anlong tan umaanlong a Pangasinan. Kabiangan ed sarayan umaanlong et sikara di Melchor Orpilla, Atty. Ferdinand Quintos, Sergio Bumadilla, Jesamyne Diokno, tan Hermie Beltran. Wala met la’ra’y manumtumbok a wala’d kalangweran laut la’d…
Carlos S. Bulosan, ma-ngaraned kuritan By Mel V. Jovellanos PIGPIGARA ni labat so kaluyagan tayo’n kabat da’y Bulosan. Saray Dagupeños anta ra’y Barangay Bolosan balet no Bulosan, singara alatian ya tansan. Diad bahley na Binalonan wala met lay ginawa ra’n monumento tan kalye ya pangi-dayew ed si Carlos Bulosan…
Plagiarism here and now By Johanne Margarette R. Macob WHEN I entered college, the very tenets instilled to us were that of “Honor and Excellence”. Honor first before excellence, for without the former, the latter is worthless; as a word without an action or an action sans emotion. I remember…
Thank God I’m Filipino By S. Bill Jimenez TGIF! Thank God I’m Filipino! Among Filipinos, thanksgiving is an important virtue. “Utang na loob” (gratefulness) should be expressed and demonstrated; otherwise, you are called “walang utang na loob” (ungrateful). And being ungrateful is a stigma you don’t want. One Pangasinense who was supported by a…
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