Rizal on expat Filipinos

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 08/30/2023

With all the bad press our airport and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have been receiving for some months now, my last two hassle-free departures from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 can probably be described…

Eating out with dogs

Michael L. Tan - @inquirerdotnet 08/29/2023

It was International Dog Day last Saturday, which got me thinking of today’s topic: the way people are taking their dogs to restaurants to eat out. For the Philippines, that’s such a change away from eating dogs.…

Your most important journey

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 08/27/2023

  The story is told about a teacher who said: “Maria, go to the map and find North America.” Maria obliged and pointed to North America. The teacher said: “Correct! Now, class who discovered North America?” And…

100-day cough

Fatima Ignacio Gimenez - @inquirerdotnet 08/21/2023

Scenario number one: A one-month-old baby was transferred from another institution in the hopes that further intervention would provide a cure. History revealed that the patient had been suffering from cough and cold a week prior to…

Help us, Lord!

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 08/20/2023

Some years ago, I saw an interesting picture of a groom and his bride kneeling before the altar on their wedding day. Unknown to the groom, his buddies wrote on the sole of his left shoe the…

Don’t sink

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 08/13/2023

They say that walking is good for the health. Yes. I heard about a lady who started walking at the age of 65 … up to now she is still walking! And she is nowhere to be…

ChatGPT and me

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 08/11/2023

People who fear artificial intelligence (AI) have watched too many science-fiction films about robots running a world where humans are enslaved. AI has been upon us for a long time, and it has been getting better, smarter…

Listen more

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 08/06/2023

  The story is told about a hunter who invited his neighbor to show him his dog that can walk on water. Sure enough, the dog walked on the water to retrieve every duck they hit. Unable…

Rizal’s hat in Berlin

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 08/04/2023

  After a special screening of the 1998 movie biography “Jose Rizal,” I hurried out of the theater as soon as the final credits started rolling to avoid being asked what the film got right or wrong.…

Taking up space

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 08/03/2023

Whenever we do a sociometry exercise in class wherein I ask students to arrange themselves in relation to each other’s social dimensions, I also have them notice who is not being represented by the group. When I…

Truth in biased documents

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 08/02/2023

Albert F. Gudatt is a name you will not find in Philippine history textbooks. He is but one of many young men who served with the United States Army during the Spanish-American and the succeeding Philippine-American War.…

Deregulation then and now

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 08/01/2023

It has been a year since the death of President Fidel V. Ramos, who introduced the boldest economic reforms the country had seen during his presidency in 1992-1998. Their guiding principle was deregulation—the fourth of five Ds…

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