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MANILA, MY MANILA: Season of Advent
BUILDING A SITE
Manila took a long time to make. What is now its ground used to be sea. The sea reached as far as the present towns of Mandaluyong ("a place of waves") and Makati (a place of tides").
It is said that diggers...
Because A… Rosebud
because a wounded rosebudtaunts the harvest moonand a failed moonbeamlimps among the dewdropswaltzing on the evening grassmy soulis searedin the embersof a brown passion
Written by Tomas M. Maye. Published in the Philippine Graphic on July 8, 1996.
Discerning the age of innocence
It was probably the most unsettling and shocking piece of news that broke during that second week of October.
After eating his share of hotdog and marshmallow-on-a-stick, a boy, aged 3, uses the stick to stab the heart of his four-year-old girl playmate. The...
Of ‘balimbing’ and coup
It is balimbing season once again. Balimbing is a fruit with many sharp sides, so that it has been popularly used to describe agile politicians who are able to change sides quickly everytime there is a change in the political weather. It is...
RIZAL AND THE ASIAN RENAISSANCE
An Asian Renaissance must involve cultural rebirth and empowerment, not simply cultural jingoism.
In 1886, a young Asian student wrote from Europe the following lines dedicated to his country: "Recorded in the history of human suffering is a cancer so malignant that the least...
THE FIRST FREEDOM DAY
By 4 p.m. the clouds had dispersed and the sun shone over Manila Bay. This looked like a good omen on the historic birth of the Republic 67 years ago.
THE town of Kawit in Cavite Province assumed a festive air that Sunday...
