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Being Anna Mae Lamentillo: Lessons on gender equality & how to bridge the gender gap
She started young. Born Feb. 7, 1991 to a seaman father with Spanish lineage and a businesswoman mother from a Chinese family, Anna Mae Lamentillo, on her own recollection, remembers growing up in a “multi-cultural household, where the spirit of empowerment and equality...
Julian Miguel Bondoc Alquinto: Poetry, Kid Andromeda, and saving the world
His mother remembers with fondness where she got the name for her only son.
“It’s a favorite name of mine. Sa lahat ng tula ko noon na sinusulat, nandoon ang karakter ni Julian from the movie Julian Makabayan. And his father, Mike, wanted...
From the eyes of a youth
John Carlo “Caloy” Sateniaman is a senior student of Rizal Technological University BSBA-Marketing Management.
“When I was in grade school I experienced being bullied for being skinny. Unable to overcome my bad experience, I joined a dance troupe until college. It also helped me...
Manix Abrera: Rockin’ the Stars
I first met Manix Abrera in a van of all places, enroute to Quezon Province, while he was fast asleep.
We were to deliver each a lecture together with the head of the University of Santo Tomas’ Department of Literature and the Humanities Dr....
A cultural activist remembers: 30 minutes with Carmen Guerrero Nakpil
It’s a cafe frequented by Manila’s elite—where scions of old rich and nouveau riche families hobnob with wealthy expats and the city’s artists, writers, and other intellectuals.
The sound of cowbells, trumpets, conga, bass, güiro and the piano enliven the syncopated beat of Cuban music...
Football beneath the volcano
Although it was rainy the entire morning, Mayon Volcano and an unusually strong sun showed up just in time for the 40 children, mostly boys, who were selected for football training on the grassy field of the Sto. Domingo Central Elementary School in...
