Entre’acte
Game of Chance
By Rex Catubig TAKING a chance has always been an inherent urge. The risk and challenge induce and pump up an adrenaline rush. And foremost among the age-old stimulants, and possibly the most seductive in this regard, is gambling. Gambling or games akin, provided the primeval perk in our…
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The untold story
By Rex Catubig SOMETIME ago, Jessica Soho's magazine show lovingly recounted the reunion after seven decades, of a simple house help and her American ward. The story harkened back to the magical times my cousins and I spent with our housemaid. More than the cleaning, cooking, and washing of…
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When it is smoky November in your soul
By Rex Catubig I always fell asleep on my way to Dagupan during my semester break from college. Despite being cramped elbow to elbow on the wooden bench seat of the Pantranco bus, the wind surge from the open sides, the drone of the engine, and the rocking motion…
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Flood, Frankly (2nd of two parts)
By Rex Catubig WE are witnessing how, in record time and biblical proportion, dikes and rivers overflowed, copious rains fell within a short period, and lo and behold, the country drowned in flood water and unending hearings. Yet these occurrences could not have been generated by ignominious corruption alone…
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Flood, frankly
By Rex Catubig WHEN the anomalous flood control projects exploded a Pandora’s box of associative demons—SOP, payola, insertions, twenty-five percent, proponent, and other euphemistic turns of phrase, one exacerbating factor got somewhat overshadowed. Yet, it is a key player in all this. Beyond the dikes, the embankments, rip rap…
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