Here are the Top 10 finalists of Miss Universe 2019

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/09/2019

The Top 10 finalists in the Miss Universe 2019 held at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, USA: USA, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Peru, Iceland, France, Indonesia, Thailand, and Mexico. The Top 20 semifinalists were:…

Philippines lands as Top 20 semi-finalists

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/09/2019

Cebu City, Philippines—Miss Philippines Gazini Christiana Ganados gave pageant fans quite a scare when her name was not called in the Africa and Asia Pacific semifinalists of the Miss Universe 2019. But she got everyone on their…

Technology and children

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 12/07/2019

One of my close friends called me on a busy Friday evening to tell me that she was “very disturbed.” She was having dinner with her six-year-old daughter when she asked, out of the blue, what the…

Limiting screen time

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/30/2019

How do you make sure that your children are not spending too much time with their gadgets? This is the question that a mother asked me while I was waiting for my daughter to emerge from a…

Shared responsibility

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/23/2019

The issue involving teacher Melita Limjuco, whose disciplinary action to her pupil allegedly traumatised the child, hit me on three fronts: as a journalist, as a mother and as a teacher. A media personality is in the…

Nanay Says: Mr. John

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/16/2019

We were eagerly waiting for them to arrive inside one of the classrooms of Fudan University in Shanghai, China.  It was not the first time for us, scholars of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF) China Scholarship Program,…

Is it forevermore for Sarah and Matteo?

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/07/2019

Is couple Sarah Geronimo and Matteo Guidicelli already engaged? On Thursday night, November 7, Guidicelli posted in his Instagram account @matteog, two photos of himself and Geronimo with the caption: “I love you my love, now and…

This climb for Malu

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 11/02/2019

BUKIDNON – – The acrid smell of disappointment filled the air when the coordinator officially announced that all six trails leading to the Mount Apo National Park are closed.  The final decision came after a magnitude 6.5…

5 things you may not know about Argao 

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 10/21/2019

You know Argao for its 3Ts: torta, tuba and tablea. While we enjoy this town’s culinary heritage that highlights every visit, food is not the only reason why you should visit Argao.  In a recent trip to…

Water and trees

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 10/19/2019

There was a special smell in the air that day much like the sweet aroma of pine trees in Baguio City that I used to imagine to see in person while watching movies on television. It was…

Reverie at 33

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 08/17/2019

When my siblings and I saw the rice fields of Barangay San Juan, Ormoc City, we cheered with the passion and noise similar to football fans when their team scores a goal. It was our first time…

Visayan music

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 08/03/2019

I grew up in a home where Sunday mornings were all about the songs of Max Surban and cassette tapes which my grandfather, Diosdado Sr., called “standard Bisaya” music. Living in a house next to my grandparents…

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