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Erik Matti, Your Wish Is My Comment
MANILA: I seldom buy a newspaper, but today I did and then I saw the stark full-page layout of Erik Matti's 8 wishes for Filipino cinema to resurrect itself, with the title "The future of Philippine...
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Rene Saguisag: How do you grow up when you're growing old?
MANILA: Beloved former Senator Rene Saguisag has one fear now that he's old: "a long, lingering, hopeless illness" towards the end of his life, as quoted by ANN (author not named, no date,...
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Anyway Love
MANILA:Â From a bleeding heart, here is my contribution to The World's Literature Of Love:Someone, Love Anyway Someone does not present oneself as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, love...
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"Happy Valentine's Day" to the ones I hate!
MANILA: Following my own advice this morning (see "Anyway Love," 14 February 2016, A Magazine Called Love, blogspot.com), I say "Happy Valentine's Day!" to the ones I hate: MAYOR RODRIGO DUTERTE and...
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The Incredible Manny Pacquiao
MANILA: I can see that Rappler.com is overly delighted in bringing out the news about Manny Pacquiao saying that those in same-sex unions are "worse than animals"– Rappler used the pronoun for a male...
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The Invincible Manny Pacquiao
MANILA: The image above is from The Guardian (online) of 18 February 2016 and has this caption: "Manny Pacquiao attacked gay marriage earlier this week" (Bryan Armen Graham, theguardian.com). And that,...
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Debates Debatable
MANILA: Did you watch the PiliPinas Debate? I did not. Did you pay attention? Ellen Tordesillas said, "Grace Poe took the first presidential debate" (ellentordesillas.com).Rappler said, " PiliPinas...
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The Son Also Rises!
MANILA: The Philippines this week is celebrating the restoration of democracy some 30 years after Martial Law, but many "who suffered through the Marcos dictatorship tremble with anger at slow justice...
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Vision, Not Division: One State, One Spirit, One Struggle
MANILA: Last year, on 11 October 2015, I wrote, "Why Leni Is My VP," saying (A Magazine Called Love, blogspot.com): "Leni believes in marriage between a man and a woman under the Roman Catholic Church...
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Ateneo, UP, La Salle: We Need More English
MANILA: Ed Quisumbing, Filipino, has been eating English for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the last few decades, working as a staff of the World Bank in the United States. He graduated from the...
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Attack of The Ateneo 400 and Historical Revisionism
MANILA: History matters. But it must be intelligent history, or one that makes good sense in the present. Simply, "History is a story about the past that is significant and true," says Gutenberg...
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Vision Is The Greater Part Of Statesmanship
MANILA: True to its name, VERA Files, standing for veracity, which is "habitual observance of truth in speech or statement" (Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary), has come out with a...
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Considering Mar Roxas
Updated 11 March 2016 at 1320 hoursMANILA: Thank you, Get Real for your essay, "Comparing promises: Roxas vs Duterte" (getreal, 08 March 2016, getreal.rocks). I got my image from your website, and I...
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Looking For A Great Statesman
MANILA: "Paalam, Ka Jovy," said Teodore Te, on learning of the death of Jovito Salonga (10 March 2016, news.abs-cbn.com). "Mabuhay ka!"He was a Statesman. On Thursday, 10 March 2016, he died at the...
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Global Miseducation: Teaching The Global Judges Judging The Local Teachers
MANILA: From where I sit, it was a Global Misteach: With Palestinian Grade 2 teacher Hanan al-Hroub winning the Global Teacher Prize of $1 Million for 2016 in Dubai, I know that the judges needed...
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Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Word Away!
MANILA: If you think you are too old, you are. If you think you will not benefit from it, you will not. What you think is what you get! This Ilocano is past 75, and I'm busier than a bee and at the...
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Knowledge In UP Is Upside Down!
MANILA: On Facebook, my alma mater ever so proud, in the past few days the University of the Philippines proclaimed in 3 instances its wisdom on knowledge. The UP Oblation was so sure of its footing....
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I Have A Dream
MANILA: I am writing this with apologies to Martin Luther King who delivered his earth-shaking speech, "I Have A Dream," on 28 August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC ("Top 100 Speeches,"...
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Here's What We Can Do At Once To Fight Climate Change
MANILA: The heat is on! The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has noted temperatures rising as the summer kicks in this March (Dona Z Pazzibugan, 23...
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Frank H's Landscape Agriculture: Can you see the water?
MANILA: On Facebook, I have just seen what is clearly landscape agriculture: the faces of Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards defined in a ricefield; the link is to "AlDub-inspired rice paddy kindles...
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