Judges, court employees protest tax increase on their allowances

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/14/2014

Judges and court employees in Cebu City and Cebu province wore black shirts today as they joined the nationwide silent protest against the government’s move to raise tax deductions on their allowances. Rank and file employees said…

Seeds

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/13/2014

I have not had much success with seeds. Lately, I bought packets of them — morning glory, bitter melon, eggplant — which I entrusted to the help for potting. After a week, when I inquired about them,…

Bird and bread talk

06/29/2014

Here I sit in a restaurant at the airport. My flight is seven hours away. In the restaurant, I picked a corner where ensconced in a sofa I could stay undisturbed for seven hours. On the table…

Van Gogh and God

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 05/18/2014

In the Second World War, Allied forces bombed Magdeburg, setting fire to the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum where the Nazis had kept the paintings they had seized for being “degenerate.”  Together with the works of such as Marc Chagall,…

On the road

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 05/04/2014

It began uneventfully enough, the first day of May–the customary prayers, a short constitutional, a sparse but otherwise delightful breakfast. Since we expected our son and his family to join us for lunch, the wife and I…

The call of a wider sea

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/26/2014

Just in front of our house lies a lot, whose owner we do not know, which, seeing it too long idle, someone in the village turned into a garden that now grows maize, beans and okra. Daily…

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