A WORKER of the National Parks Development Committee cleans the Flower Clock at the Rizal Park in Manila, a day after President Aquino signed a law setting the Philippine Standard Time, yesterday. (Photo by Michael Varcas)
Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis said on Wednesday in his latest urging that people of all religions – or no religion – work together.
MEMBERS of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) rescue team, clad in fatigue uniforms, board a truck for their deployment in Manila to help clear the sidewalks of vendors and other obstructions. (Photo by KJ Rosales)
SENATOR Manny Villar and Senator-elect Cynthia Villar check the plastic school chairs, finish product of the Waste Plastic Recycling Factory in Barangay Ilaya, Las Pinas, which they inaugurated yesterday morning. The factory turns plastic wastes into durable school chairs that could last up to 20 years. (Photo by Linus Guardian Escandor II)
SINGER Richard Poon and actress Maricar Reyes are eyeing to tie the knot in an “exclusive” wedding some time this year.
GRANDMASTER Darwin Laylo (seated, left) is locked in a battle with GM Li Shilong of China during the sixth round of the Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championship at the Midas Hotel and Casino. Watching the game (from left) are GM Mark Paragua, NCFP executive-director Jayson Gonzales, NCFP secretary-general Cavite Rep. Bambol Tolentino and NCFP director - Rommel Tacorda.
MIAMI Heat guard Dwyane Wade battles for a lose ball against Indiana Pacers guard George Hill during the third quarter of Game 1 in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Indiana Pacers against the Miami Heat in Miami. (AP photo)
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Charity begins
Next to Pagcor, PCSO or Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office is the agency to tap for help for the poor and suffering, except that PCSO’s mandate commands it to be the government’s bleeding-heart. Twenty percent (P11 million) of its ticket sales in one day (P50 million) goes to doleouts for people who need money to pay their medical bills a.s.a.p. – doctors, hospitals, pharmacies,...
Airport marvel
And we thought our Ninoy Aquino International Airport was the lousiest in the world because of old age and cramped space, heavy passenger traffic, vehicular traffic coming and going, squatters, congestion, pollution, etc.? Incoming search terms:mumbai airport (2)mumbai airport construxtion (1) Read More »
Bad boys
Some girls are blessed to fall in love at first blush with bad boys. Good boys, in their opinion and against everything they have ever learned from their all-wise, all-knowing mothers, are too bland, too boring, too dull and, well, just too goody for their taste. Read More »
After all’s said and done
Four days before election, the candidate said to me, smiling a bedimpled smile, “Three in the opposition will be allowed to make it.” True enough. By Monday evening, the three of them, Nancy Binay, Gringo Honasan, JV Ejercito. Incoming search terms:one on one iglesia ni cristo (2)catholic vote hontiveros (1)grace poe iglesia ni cristo (1)iglesia ni cristo winner (1)iglesia vote (1) Read More »
Dutiful
Nursing a happy Mother’s Day hangover, I refused to leave the house yesterday morning to cast my vote and exercise my duty. Actually, one of my children said to me, you’re being cynical; no, I said, I’m skeptical, there’s a difference. Truth be told, it was neither, the real reason being, simply, old age. Incoming search terms:cynical vs skeptical (1) Read More »
What fun!?
What, no fun on Monday, election day?! No guns. No liquor. No elect-ricity. No money, at least, no more than P100,000 in withdrawals. No work, no pay. Incoming search terms:bing-plants green vine with cluster of lavender flowers (1) Read More »
Showtime!
Ask me about any movie showing or shown over the last two weeks and I’ve probably seen it. (One movie simultaneously occupied every and all screens of the most popular cineplexes for several days; otherwise I would have watched many more.) Read More »
Men only
It’s a disease so rare that only 1,400 Filipino men, boys and male babies have been identified as hemophiliacs (although over 8,000 others are presumed undiagnosed and untreated). Incoming search terms:for pinoy men only (1) Read More »
For the love of Asiang
Max Soliven and his Precious were regulars. When Rogel Benganio began courting the fair Elsa (who had just arrived in Manila from Roxas City), their first date was at this restaurant across the bay. When in the late ‘80s I showed my balikbayan date (home from exile in the US) this place at two o’clock in the morning, he was fascinated with the vast variety of colorful characters he...
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