4 years after Super Typhoon Yolanda: Survivors’ tales of woe in need of a happy ending

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/07/2017

Even after four years, Jose Lomocso still remembers the wrath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) like it happened only yesterday. “Mura gyud lagi og gibombahan ang lungsod (The whole town looked like it was bombed),”…

MAO BA?

Editorial 10/27/2017

MOLESTER ARRESTED Sexual harassment is and will always be a sensitive case, especially to women. But many people are always ready to speak up against it. For instance, many netizens expressed disgust about the man who was…

Happy and gay

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 10/06/2017

I grew up with a mother with a best friend who is a transgender and has a cleft lip. At four years old, I did not understand who a “transgender” was and what a “cleft clip” was.…

The couple with the qi: Mark and Johanna Deutsch of Happy Garaje

Gerard Pareja 06/26/2017

One of the meanings of qì (or ch’i, from Chinese Mandarin dialect) is “energy flow.” And qì seems to be running high with Happy Garaje’s Mark and Johanna Deutsch, who churn out fantasy-inspired art and corporate works.…

Gabii sa Kabilin: It’s the night to be happy

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/27/2017

Of all the spectators at the Mandaue Presidencia that night, it was 12-year-old Philip “Pilipoy” Bautista Jr. who was most impressed by the colorful dresses and elaborate costumes of the Gabii sa Kabilin performers. The “kandila boy,”…

Small but special tokens to make moms happy on their special day

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/13/2017

IT’S the children’s turn to make their mothers happy especially today — Mother’s Day. For Cebu-based actor Dan Sy Lopez, he will give a bag and a mocha cake to his mother, Marirose. It is just a…

A happy fiesta celebration for candle vendors

Norman V. Mendoza 05/07/2017

Candle vendors at the National Shrine of St. Joseph in Mandaue City were pleasantly surprised yesterday morning when they were given food by the Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (TIPC) chaired by Mandaue City Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna.…

33 companies offering 2,600 jobs join Peso jobs fair at the Capitol

Intern 05/01/2017

  Jesiel Ann Lopez, 23, joined the Labor Day jobs fair organized by the Cebu Provincial Government on Monday. Before the day ended, Lopez was already assured of employment as a sales attendant of Rulls Cellphone and…

Your last happiest days

Raymund Fernandez 03/14/2017

In the ’70s, we told each other in posters: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Today, the same thought is better said this way: “These are your last happiest days.” Either way,…

The short and perhaps happy life of February

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 02/11/2017

The day started inauspiciously. As usual, the clock radio came on at the morning hour set for the alarm, and a voice began to make a summary of the news. Half-asleep I only caught fragments of it,…

Living it up in 2017

Mia B. Zamora 01/03/2017

HAPPY new year, all you beautiful people out there! It’s 2017 and I couldn’t be more excited … as they say, every new year brings with it 365 opportunities. Every day we wake up is a gift,…

Happy New Dash!

Francis B. Ongkingco 12/30/2016

“Happy New Dash!” Wouldn’t this be a great catchy greeting for the New Year? I bet it could easily start a cyber-trend gaining a few hundred (maybe a thousand!!!) hits and likes? Nah!!! I don’t think so.…

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