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What we can learn from the Chinese
When I think of the Chinese, immediately I’m transported to this old restaurant, The Rice Bowl. It once stood somewhere in Ongpin, Binondo. There, my family and I spent our supper during weekends. I looked forward to such treats as a child for...
Our misguided kindness
Try as I might, it’s difficult to imagine a Filipino consumed by anger and resentment. I’ve lived long enough to witness the Filipino’s sense of shame, which is far greater than his reasons for personal indignation.
Not that we are incapable of the slightest...
Who will benefit from a national franchise for solar power? (PART 1)
Various players big and small in the country’s electric power industry are now engaged in a heated debate over how to view a proposal in the House of Representatives granting a national franchise to a solar company owned by Leandro Leviste, son of...
From the outside looking in… Trump and the U.S. midterms: My dire point of view
The bitter fight contest over the U.S. midterm polls has ended with the Democratic Party regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republican Party cementing their hold in the U.S. Senate.
The result can be seen as a concrete victory for...
I cuss, therefore I am
Have you ever wondered how people came up with the axiom “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”?
Simple. It stands to reason that after hundreds of thousands of years of existence, the devil was finally able to read—and put to good...
The activism of letters
To be writing is to be in a particular relation to the world; it is to be linguistically in process, not waiting for a wave but engaging it, instincts and reflexes on high alert, whereas simply fulfilling the outer demand to be putting...
