By: Alex P. Vidal “In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’” – Howard Schultz ILONGGOS waited on tenterhooks whether City Hall would pin the blame of the blackout to the Panay
November 30, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” –Confucius HE didn’t wait for a Raffy Tulfo to make
November 29, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going.” – Frank Gehry UNLESS Iloilo leaders will step on the gas and aggressively support and endorse the proposal
November 28, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.” — Jim Gray WITH barely seven weeks to go before the Dinagyang Festival 2020 will unravel in Iloilo City, City Hall executive assistant for power Randy Pastolero is hard-pressed to help clear spaghetti wires and poles
November 27, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” — Thomas Jefferson IT seems so many anomalies and scandals are being committed in the government by dishonest,
November 26, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.” – Friedrich Nietzsche HOW do we differentiate good taste from bad taste? Who determines whether my taste, your taste, their taste is the better one? That we differ in our tastes is itself an indisputable fact. It is also true that
November 25, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.” – Tzipi Livni NO journalist in his right mind would be happy to learn that a colleague has been convicted “with finality” by the Supreme Court
November 22, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.” – Sheldon Whitehouse I remember while serving in a restaurant for several weeks in Brgy. Manok-Manok in Boracay Island in the mid-80s, two
November 21, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “No matter how many people you know, it will always be yourself against the world.” – Victoria Dawn Monks AT the rate the Panay Electric Company (PECO) is being bamboozled by its adversaries from pillar to post these past weeks, we won’t be surprised if even the lizards and mosquitoes will
November 20, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. – Sai Baba As we age we become conscious of the food we eat primarily because of health reasons. According to dieticians, we are the
November 19, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.” – Irene Peter ONE of the reasons why the Philippines appears to be slow in terms of progress and sometimes has become the laughing stock of Asia is because of grandstanding politicians like Senator Miguel “Migz” Zubiri. Zubiri has just
November 18, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, stating their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.”—Fabrizio Moreira THE late billionaire John Gokongwei Jr. must have loved Iloilo so much that
November 12, 2019