By Alex P. Vidal “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”—Corrie Ten Boom INSTEAD of donating wheelchairs, we suggest to our Filipino-Chinese donors and other Good Samaritans in Iloilo to donate face masks and hand sanitizers. Wheelchairs are good, but what
August 17, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.”—L. Ron Hubbard ONE of the most accessible and popular books that we always see when we go to the bookstores in the Philippines and abroad
August 15, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.”—Bill Gates IT’S hard to imagine the Philippine newspapers—national and regional—operating without a newsroom. In the News Express, the first regional newspaper I had the privilege to work with
August 14, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “I’m very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of lives, and people ought to be getting vaccinated.” — Robert Kennedy, Jr. LET us not be confused. Let’s be informed and remain vigilant. Authorities should refrain from giving us false hopes
August 13, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson INSTEAD of cursing God for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, most Ilonggos are praying that the ongoing health crisis of epic proportion worldwide will soon disappear and spare humanity from more cases and deaths. It is said
August 12, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.”—James E. Faust IT is becoming apparent now that the pandemic will prolong our agony. Some of
August 11, 2020
“After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”—Margaret Chan THE case of a fish broker who died after testing positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the Iloilo City Fishing Port Complex recently should not be taken lightly. Where there is
August 10, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “If your oxygen mask drops down, it’s time to take a breather!” —Richard Simmons WE can tolerate the wearing of a mask in public to curtail the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It’s not only necessary in order to protect others and ourselves, it is also showing cooperation and
August 8, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” —Henry David Thoreau THE wave of scandals and man-made catastrophes we face every day even before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic came, is too much for the human mind and heart to bear.
August 7, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”—Dale Carnegie ALTHOUGH it was a common knowledge that the late Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) administrator Lorenzo “Larry” Jamora was a close political ally of the late former Iloilo City mayor Mansueto “Mansing” Malabor, he
August 6, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.”—Albert Schweitzer IF not for this Good Samaritan who now lives in New York City, friends and relatives of the late Ilonggo chess master
August 5, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Sex gets your endorphins flowing, the chemicals in your brain that make you feel good. Having sex makes you feel good, and increasing your erotic sophistication improves your self-esteem.” THE Kerista Village is a commune in which members are not monogamous. They practice polyfidelity—they have sex with other members
August 4, 2020