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If you want to know what or who a person treasures, try looking at the contents of their cellphone, wallet, or bag. Start with yourself; what is in your cellphone, your wallet, your bag? —————- In today’s…
The recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) report on Self-Rated Poverty in June 2023—“Social Weather Report: 45% of Filipino families feel Poor, down from 51% in March; 33% feel Borderline, and 22% feel Not Poor,” www.sws.org.ph, 7/23/23—was coincidentally…
Fashion and history clashed in the past week: first, when Beauty Gonzalez wore jewelry repurposed from pre-Spanish Philippine gold artifacts to the 2023 GMA ball; second, when Sen. Imee Marcos wore Cordillera textiles, ornaments, and tattoos to…
I still remember when a neighbor threw a box of chocolate milk over our perimeter wall. Why was this so egregious? Because I had a small dog and if he had drunk it before I caught…
Listening to the catalog of achievements and promises made in the President’s State of the Nation Address bored me. The speech just rattled on like the white noise you see on TV when the station signs off,…
Metro Manila is both exploding and imploding,” mused my environmentalist colleague Dr. Ben Malayang III, as members of our small chat group compared notes on traffic jam experiences two weeks ago, amidst widespread flooding in the city.…
Bulate ang aabutin mo kapag hindi ka nagtsinelas!” As children, we were always admonished to refrain from walking barefoot, most especially when playing outside the house. If you are looking for a scientific bases, there are. Hookworms…
The story is told about a woman on a roulette table who was told by a man behind her back: “Bet your age.” Wanting to impress him, she put her bet on number 21. When the number…
Contrary to popular belief, adobo is not a Spanish dish. Filipinos have had adobo long before Ferdinand Magellan sailed into our shores in 1521. Adobo is the Philippines’. Adobo is not the name of a dish, but…
I don’t trust you!” That was a core memory from my first year of graduate clinical training in the United States when I was tasked to lead a therapy group of adolescents on probation. It was located…
Bagong Pamantayang Tagalog is a Facebook page I highly recommend. It is not an esoteric page for lexicographers; its posts are relevant to anyone interested in Philippine history and languages. One post carried a screenshot from “Vocabulario…
The Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) Company used to have a monopoly on telephone services, and Philippine Airlines (PAL) on domestic airline services in the country. It took over six years from when my wife filed an…
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