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Quite as if by a strange twist of fate, the Roman soldiers pointed to me, Simon of Cyrene, innocent passerby, disaffected by all these. They pointed to me to help the condemned man carry his cross when…
6A.M., He wakes up. Turns on the television. Switches to CNN. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition icon has been executed on a bridge near the Kremlin. He has been shot by an unknown assailant or assailants. As soon…
The Vladimir Putin narrative grows ever more interesting. What with the war in the Ukraine, the recent spate of incursions of Russian bombers into foreign air space, his mule-headedness in the face of worldwide condemnation and sanctions?…
This afternoon, 2 p.m., Wednesday 18 February 2015, Kinutil’s Raymund L. Fernandez is doing a presentation on Martino Abellana at the SM Cebu Art Center. The lecture is about Abellana’s teaching method and his position in Cebuano…
Nights like these when the cold season wanes foretelling the longer days of summer he dreams again of his sister’s red bicycle. The dream recurs inside a seasonal pulse. Always, he sees his mother and him at…
Comes a conversation between two writer-friends utilizing the social networks. One suggests that instead of religion we might as well think in terms of being kind to each other and taking care of our fellow creatures. The…
By Monday it will be back to work for him! He promised himself. He misses it. Work. The holiday season seemed alternately longer and shorter than just two weeks. This season particularly; visited as it was with…
Listen and listen carefully! It is not Uypuangco. It is Alex Uypuanco. And ask yourself: Why do you always get it wrong? He thought this to himself and then his excuse: “It is my age. The fact…
Alimusan is fillet of big catfish sautéed in its natural oils to a tender sweetish fatness. It is served at Tinolahan Ubos sa Flyover at the North Terminal in Talisay, Bacolod City. He ate it with his…
“Kalag-kalag” is of course more about the living than it is about the dead. In more fortunate years between us, it is one other cause for reunion. On this particular day, what’s left of the family, whoever…
Just days ago, he had the good fortune of being there, standing as he did inside the big crowd of people waiting for examinees to exit from their testing grounds. The place? The University of Santo Tomas.…
The big house across the street sang to him the colors of the early morning. Da di da… Somewhere unseen, the sun rose, its rays bathing the wall a blazing bright yellow. And he could not help…
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