Immigrate v. Emigrate

Today, I jokingly said that I wanted to migrate to New Zealand because it’s almost COVID-free, and it’s got sheep, and – c’mon man! – HOBBITS. But the minute I said that, I knew I had said something, not exactly wrong. but imprecise. So I had a teachable moment, all by myself. To Immigrate is […]

Overseas Voter Registration starts on September 1! Here’s what you need to know

Are you an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) about to leave the country in search of greener pastures to be able to provide for your family? Maybe a college or postgraduate student about to embark on a new academic journey in a foreign university abroad? Or perhaps you are married to a foreign national and will […]

My hot take on SelPink and Ice Cream

I mean, talk about heavily anticipated. The Selena Gomez + Blackpink collab “Ice Cream” finally dropped to a waiting online audience of millions but, in my opinion at least, ended up a messy splatter on the pavement. The Good This video shows off Jisoo’s english – blinks will understand – which means that for this […]

Find your NCR registration center here

Use this guide to the COMELEC Offices in NCR, to find out where voter registration will be happening in your area. Remember, there will be no satellite registrations for a while, and all registration will take place at the COMELEC offices. To use this guide, all you have to do is look up the City […]

The OTHER thing you wanted to know about the Voter Registration application form

Last time, we talked about downloading the voter registration application form, and we walked through the trickier aspects of the whole process – including how to make sure that you had the form that you actually needed. But we covered only one side of CEF-1, which means that now, we’re going to talk about the […]

Minecraft enthusiasts ensure that COVID19 won’t keep freshmen from ‘walking through’ UST

From the chatter among the alumni, it was apparent that people were bummed out that incoming freshmen weren’t going to get a walk through of the UST campus. We didn’t either, back in the late late 80’s (or that could have just been my Institute), but apparently, the freshman walk through has become something of […]

Everything you wanted to know about downloading voter registration forms

Here’s the pitch: I know you’re excited to go register but when you get there, you see a long line of people waiting to be let in. Someone tells you to get your registration form ready and you’re like “WTF! I wasn’t informed.” And then you start bargaining. “Do they have forms here? Baka pwede […]