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Sunny with a chance of tikoy

Tikoy is China’s fruitcake. A sentence as declarative as this usually demands proof, and usually, the proof is in the tikoy, but have you actually seen anyone eat some? Not in its raw state, unlike fruitcake which can be consumed as is where...

PROYEKTO: Creating a Manila Heritage Model

Manila is a historic city. No doubt about that. From the time Spanish colonizers organized the city in the 16th century to today, the city, for better or worse, played a pivotal role in shaping the country’s modern history. For many historians and heritage conservation advocates,...

That old uncomfortable feeling

We’ve stomped on these grounds before, with much suffering, I might add, so it befuddles me why my fellow citizens are not seeing it.  By seeing I refer to patterns and themes that by all means should be familiar to us as a...

Knock, knock, who’s there? God

Fornication’s best ambassadress will have to be Janice de Belen. In 1986, when she was still in her teens, she became pregnant by Aga Muhlach who, 17 at the time, was still a minor. According to Janice, Aga had proposed to her but...

V of the D

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. If you’re single, this probably is just another day for you or at least the day you’ll bemoan seeing googly-eyed couples everywhere so much that you could swear you’d puke for days. If you’re in a...

Dance Macabre

The conversation anent charter change has taken a turn for the serious and you can tell by the way the newspapers are reporting it. When Presidents like Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo were suggesting overhauling the Constitution, reporters and their...

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Project Coffee

When God created the world in seven days, probably, there was already coffee on the third day. To fast forward human existence, coffee was...

A Christmas staycation with Star Trek and Star Wars

It’s tough to get around the metropolis because of the massive traffic brought about by the Christmas rush. Just going through the daily grind of...

Close encounters with the fishy kind: A Look at China’s ‘Fisheries war’

On March 4, the South China Morning Post published an online video of the Argentine Coast Guard’s brief yet tense encounter with a Chinese...

When God becomes just another joking matter

  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will reap.—Galatians 6:7   Rarely do I give myself the chance to...