(This space will be reserved for literary contributions from readers.The PUNCH encourages readers to write and email to us their thoughts about their impressions and ideas about life in and outside of Pangasinan, whether social or economic or cultural. No politics, please. Thank you. – Publisher). Villanelle 5 By Santiago…
A Kabaleyan’s Thoughts…
(This space will be reserved for literary contributions from readers.The PUNCH encourages readers to write and email to us their thoughts about their impressions and ideas about life in and outside of Pangasinan, whether social or economic or cultural. No politics, please. Thank you. – Publisher). Villanelle 3: Aligando By…
A Kabaleyan’s Thoughts…
Images to remember By Emmanuelle It was not a crowd out there; it was a mob. The twelve security personnel (of the total force of 104), left to man the Lower Ringside Passage could not have stopped the sudden deluge of bodies surging forward with tremendous speed and force….
Feelings
‘Ultragedy’ By Al S. Mendoza If you were Willie Revillame, what would you be doing now? Willie, of course, is the host of the tragedy-stricken “Wowowee” noontime ABS-CBN show that claimed 71 lives and injured more than 300 in a stampede on Feb. 4 at…
General Admission
The Duque brothers By Jun Velasco During our elementary school years, we would walk from our home in Barangay Malued to the public plaza almost every Saturday to bike around the well-paved square. There were rows of bicycles for rent, which thrilled us to no…
Think about it
Athletics and politics don’t mix By Gonzalo Duque By the time you are reading this, the PRISAA games would have been over. Thank God, it’s over? No, I wish the games were still here. We enjoyed every minute of it. And I must…
Playing with Fire
The inimitable John Lesaca By Gerry Garcia Another surprise entertainer from Metro Manila, aside from Gary Valenciano and Dagupeña Mocha, invited by PRISAA honcho Gonz Duque to add color to the just ended national games here in Pangasinan, was Pinoy jazz fiddler John Lesaca, probably…
Here and There
Pacquiaomania By Al S. Mendoza Its been almost two weeks now but Pacquiaomania is still very much with us. People just couldn’t stop jubilating over Manny Pacquiao’s sensational 10th-round victory over Erik Morales of Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m…
