Pangasinenses or Pangasinanes or Pangalatok or Pangalato? Take your pick! By Jun Velasco HAPPY New Ear! We were meaning to use the head “Happy New Ear!” to warn against our common practice of exploding “paputok” (firecrackers) in welcoming the New Year. Hopefully, we’d have less casualties this time with P-Noy’s…
Chito has a good idea to reconcile for Benjie and Belen By Gonzalo Duque OUR New Year’s wish: the political reconciliation of Mayor Benjie Lim and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. On this account, our cumpadre, Councilor Chito Samson proposed a sensational idea — “man intsik lara ompiano sikara labat so makatalos,…
Let’s relearn the art of being normal By Al S. Mendoza FORGET and forgive? Or forgive and forget? Really now, which comes first? It’s like the chicken-and-egg thing again. Did the egg come first, or the chicken?
Christmas wishes By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD Considering that it is not bad to wish and that a wish is but a yearning, attending to the practice that Christmas time is the customary occasion to make wishes and that anybody can make a wish or two, the following wishful thoughts…
“United we stand, divided we fall” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNLIKE the other national sports associations in swimming, equestrian, badminton and especially cycling, the just one-month old power squabbling in our national football association was quickly resolved. It was made possible by the swift verdict of the sports world…
Polka dots and 12 round fruits By Marifi Jara ILHA de Mozambique–My senior high school niece, via e-mail, has recently asked me to help her in shaping up her thesis paper. She wants to do something on ‘Filipino traditions that are disappearing’. I gave her some guidelines and suggestions, and…
Remembering the Christmas past By Ermin Garcia Jr. AS I am certain many baby-boomers like me often reminisce the “good old days” during Christmas holidays, allow me to trigger some memories of their own with mine. When I was in grade school in the mid 50s, Christmas vacation in Dagupan…
Crisis of faith By Jun Velasco WE were probably the first, along with Mayor Benjie Lim, city museum czarina Nora Siapno, and tourism director Rose Teng-Mejia, to witness the switching on of the beautiful Christmas tree in front of the city museum Tuesday night. Amid a myriad of troubles tearing our…
A legacy By Gonzalo Duque THE year — 2010, that’s about to go — should be the most meaningful to this columnist. No, no beautiful girl landed in out heart this year. Tapos na tayo diyan ha with our beloved Ruth who has stood by us for how many years now. More…
Webb and the web of lies, doubts? By Al S. Mendoza THEY have spoken. And their word is final. Seven justices of the Supreme Court said Hubert Webb and six others didn’t do it. Meaning, Webb et al. didn’t massacre the wife and two daughters of Lauro Vizconde. The word…
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