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The art of truth-scribbling

The summer of 2003 seemed to be the beginning of many things. I had returned home from a year-long exile in a distant city, one where neither the city nor I belonged to each other. I carried with me the strangeness of that...

HSMA Launches Virtus Awards 2018

The HSMA is issuing a call for entries for the forthcoming Virtus Awards—otherwise known in the industry as the Oscars of hotel sales and marketing executives. The prestigious contest was first launched in 2015 as a unique platform for hotel sales and marketing professionals...

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...

The era of ill feelings

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax a la Yoda, who is probably the wisest mentor in nine galaxies. Expressed normally, the statement would not have made...

Young and (politically) woke by Karl Patrick Wilfred M. Suyat

The path toward national development and economic prosperity requires an informed citizenry who is equipped enough to act upon the changes taking place in a society, especially one that's quickly developing such as ours. Yet the irony of the times is that majority...

The donor by Louse Ann Maca

The boy who left was not the boy who came back. As I looked at him, I remember that April night when he took me to the town's plaza to watch the annual salubong. The intensity of it all, the karosa holding Jesus and...

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Boo

Damn Filipino parents and their lack of imagination. And patriotism. Hex me all you want, but I will maintain till I inhale my last...

A Memoir of World War II

Before the Japanese attacked the American naval base in Hawaii on December 8, 1941, their invasion of the Philippines was expected. By then, the...

The fox and the pitbull by Marie Yuvienco

If Rodrigo Duterte felt no compunction cussing out the Pope, it is unlikely he’ll be suffering pangs of conscience over ordering the deportation of...

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...