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Say I do
I’ve been wanting to devote a column to the happy betrothal of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle. The Prince and the Showgirl was long overdue for a reboot—the last was between Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly, the glacier-cool heroine of many a...
Two thousand and seventeen
Some half a century ago, a certain Chilean poet and Nobel laureate goes by the name Pablo Neruda penned a modern classic titled “Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche” or more popularly known to English language-enslaved tongues as “Tonight I can...
Veteran journo Rolly Espina writes 30
Journalist Rolando “Rolly” Espina passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017 surrounded by children and grandchildren in his home in Bacolod City. He was 84.
Rolly was born on Aug. 23, 1933 in Escalante, Negros Occidental, the eldest of six children born to...
All downhill from there
Once you start a boulder rolling downhill, there is no hope of stopping it. It is equally hopeless to push it back uphill as some Greek guy tried to a millennia ago but there was just no way. When Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated...
The exchanged gifts
Long-time megapolis dwellers will surely agree with me: Those were the days when the now obsolete time measure exists in the Metro—a time span of three hours in the morning and another three hours in the afternoon creeping toward the evening. It 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 getting to work on time is a struggle. And when you add to the equation the time spent just...
