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I can fry chicken
One of the recurring reminders I hear from my folks at home is that I should start learning how to cook. I would hazard that in most Filipino families, girls would often be told the same thing on account of them almost getting...
The lion, the Atom, and the movie
When a movie gets buzz less for its merits than for matters aliunde, what we lawyers call extrinsic, then something is wrong. Citizen Jake is one of those, which is a shame, because it is the movie event of 2018 that deserves to...
The bloodhounds and the Rizal Day battle for Combat Outpost No. 8
President Rodrigo Duterte’s three-day visit to South Korea called to mind the sacrifice of Filipino soldiers who fought in the Korean War almost seven decades ago.
“My official visit to Seoul was meaningful and productive,” the President said upon arriving back in Manila on...
An afternoon with Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones
Of private school tuition increases, Marawi, foreign-assisted projects, lumad education, and teachers’ loans
The security guard told us to enter via the back entrance. The front gates were locked that day since there was word of a student protest rally.
We did receive a...
Just as you are
I need more proof. A Chilean guy named Juan Carlos Cruz claims that Pope Francis told him during a private talk in the Vatican, to wit, "You know Juan Carlos, that does not matter. God made you like this. God loves you like...
Wedding bans
The bride wore white. The interior, too, of St. George’s chapel where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were wed, was awash in white, referring to the guests, who represented the cream of British society. “Cream,” of course, can be taken as shorthand for...
