Did you know that every blog that attracts 15,000 hits per month generates on average around 3.5kg of carbon every year? This information is from Stock Displays, a supplier of frames and boards and light boxes and stuff like that that oddly enough is also doing a program to reduce the carbon footprints of bloggers.
July 20, 2010 was a significant date because it marked my 20th year of living in Davao City. Almost half of my life has been spent in a land that adopted me as its own; Davao has been good to me even though I, like many other Manileños, had pretty bad preconceptions about it. In [...]
When I was a young boy my mother often scolded me because I had the habit of ditching my slippers whenever I played outside. I think I was just more comfortable unshod, and I may have felt a little faster than my friends who I thought were actually hampered by their flip-flops flip-flopping as they [...]
Friends have been asking me who my candidate for President is, and most of the time I don’t give a straight answer, The reason is simple: I am a journalist, and I don’t want to give the impression that I am biased for any candidate. But since there are only a few more days till [...]
“I make serious coffee – so strong it wakes up the neighbors.” – Author unknown One of my fondest childhood memories is of an uncle, Tiyo Ding, fetching me and my older brother from our house in Tugatog, Malabon and taking us to his home in Malinta, Bulacan. Tiyo Ding was our favorite uncle, and judging [...]
A reader who identified himself/herself only as “Mher” posted a transcription made by a certain “Kuya Lito” of the reply of presidential candidate Bro. Eddie Villanueva to allegations that he has compromised his faith by attending the 25th anniversary of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s congregation (see my blog entry). “Kuya Lito” took the time and effort [...]
I remember the first time I sang the national anthem after the February 1986 People Power uprising: it was at a gathering of the Christian organization I belonged to at school and we had decided to open the program with a prayer and then the singing of the Lupang Hinirang. It was unusual for our [...]
Driving from Los Angeles to San Diego in September 2008, my brother and I passed the nuclear power plant in San Onofre, California. I saw the two large reactors looming at a distance and asked my brother if they were what I thought they were. Yes, he said. “I thought Californians were tree huggers,” I said [...]
His father was assigned to Davao City in 1983, heading the 3rd Marine Brigade until 1986. He himself spent little time in the city, coming here only for short visits, but Ruffy Biazon, currently congressman of Muntinlupa City but gunning for a seat in the Senate under the Liberal Party (LP) slate, has hit upon [...]
“Pray.” This was the simple but serious advice of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) Regional Corporate Executive Ed Calabio to Mindanaoans who are currently faced with a power crisis of epic proportions. We’ve seen worse, of course, but this current crisis is threatening to be the mother of all power crises because of [...]
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