Growing up, I often found myself wondering why we needed to study the life and works of Jose Rizal. What was the point, I asked, of learning that he could speak more than twenty languages, or that he studied medicine so he could treat his mother’s eye, or that he once scolded a friend for […]
So, tomorrow the Supreme Court will take up the case against the PCOS machines. Based on what little I know about the Court does it’s business, I’m assuming that [a] the assigned writer – or ponente – has already written the decision which has probably been circulated for concurrence or dissent by the other Justices; […]
When it hit my face, the water did two things. It stung my face like a thousand icy needles and it sucked out the air from my lungs. My eyes flew wide open and I tried to scream, but no sound came. How could it? If the cold water hadn’t already robbed me of my […]
Not meaning to tell Hollywood how to mangle fairy-tales, but … =========== It was a great day like every other day has been great since we started living in the Wood. In the morning, we raced each other to the rapids and had a lot of fun teasing Gob for being the last to get […]
I wish someone would explain to me why the walls of various underpasses are being covered in white, red, yellow, and blue tiles. I’ve also seen those tiles on the pillars of the LRT1. Seriously. Why? I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a deterrent to vandalism, but on almost every other score I […]
I’m pretty sure the paper didn’t mean anything by it when they ran an article entitled: Counting Machines Are Fixed, Government Says. Certainly the body of the article was very clear about what they actually intended to say. SOLICITOR General Francis Jardeleza assured the Supreme Court on Tuesday that glitches in the counting machines the […]
If someone tells you that the ad he put out – or the tarps he strung across the street, or the placards he nailed to trees – isn’t premature campaigning because he didn’t use the words “VOTE FOR ME,” then he’s wrong. Any material that promotes the election or defeat of a candidate is considered […]
Ok, so I got a new BlackBerry 9790 to replace my trusty – if wonky – Nokia E71. First order of business, of course, was to transfer contacts. A perennial problem, really, and one of the reasons why I don’t get new phones as often as I would like. Anyway, I asked around and very few […]
My daily commute takes me behind the Post Office in Lawton, along a winding riverside road that starts at the MacArthur Statue at the foot of the bridge to Sta. Cruz and ends at Plaza Mexico inside Intramuros. Every morning that I go through there, I see homeless people going about their morning routines – […]
