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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...

Goodbye Pitoy!

Fashion stalwart Pitoy Moreno dies at 92. The local fashion industry’s proverbial flag flew at half-mast following the announcement of Pitoy Moreno’s passing at approximately 2:48 pm on Monday, Jan 15 at Manila Doctor’s Hospital. Friends, colleagues, and admirers of the fashion czar paid their respects at the...

One Hundred Ways to Skin a Cat

There’s this hallowed chestnut in law which says that “what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly.”  (It sounds more impressive in Latin, I can assure you, but we won’t get into that.)  It’s an all-purpose phrase which guards against plots to...

Of restless news and spews

Erratic would be an understatement to describe the days leading to this very moment, this tranquil, chilly January dawn moment as I sit here at a hilly resort porch at the foot of the mystical Banahaw; this very moment as I type these...

Fantasy Islands

Imagine, if you will, Harry Roque rushing alongside President Duterte to greet the administration’s Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion Law as it crests into view.  “De TRAIN, de TRAIN!”  The TRAIN, signed into law by the President last December 19 and effective on...

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The Prince of Tagurabong

I lived in a big house with my widowed mother, a grandmother and an unmarried aunt. My mother, Sofia Villasin Peñaranda, was a schoolteacher....

Go, girl

Apparently, Melania did not get along with one of her husband’s hires, a woman named Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser who is...

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....

Fighting Maroons outlasts Soaring Falcons for championship date with Blue Eagles

The last time the University of the Philippines fought for the UAAP (University Athletic Association of the Philippines) basketball crown, I was a sophomore...