By: Alex P. Vidal “In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.” – Maya Angelou NEGROS-born Josephine “Joji” Jalandoni, main facilitator in the participation of Iloilo City’s Dinagyang Festival and Guimaras’ Manggahan Festival in the annual Philippine Independence Day
June 22, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.”—Paulo Coelho WHEN politicians like Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo talk, we should always remember not to swallow everything hook, line, and sinker. Look what they did to the proposed Iloilo-Guimars-Negros bridge. They allowed politicians to announce it in public and created a
June 20, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett WHEN comebacking Janiuay, Iloilo mayor Frankie Locsin decided to run again in the recent May elections, he probably had no idea his appeal in his February
June 15, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.” – Kawhi Leonard THERE are probably more Ilonggos living in Oakland, California than in Toronto, Ontario, thus the Golden State Warriors apparently have more
June 14, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “I just try to play every game like it’s Game 7 of the NBA Finals.” – Kawhi Leonard THERE are two big events outside the country that can make us all forget our worries temporarily: the fights of Senator Manny Pacquiao and the NBA Finals. Miss Universe comes next–only if we
June 12, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you’re fat, that you’re this, that you’re that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.” – Ashley Benson NO one who is overweight or fat should be discriminated, ridiculed, and treated shabbily in whatever circumstance. But there
June 11, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “If you call your opponent a politician, it’s grounds for libel.” – Mark Russell I HAVE been charged with libel and ordered arrested in the past, but, luckily, I wasn’t home when the arresting officers came to “fetch” me. Since libel is a criminal case in the Philippines, it’s a standard
June 10, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “If you want street fight, let’s go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.” – Gennady Golovkin IF not for the ongoing NBA Finals, sports fans would have discussed lengthily or devoted most of the commentaries on
June 8, 2019
Above the Belt Atty. Dayot wasnt scared of death By Alex P. Vidal God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Friedrich Nietzsche ONE of the most important messages the late lawyer-philosopher Ernesto Ernie Dayot, 86, had reiterated after his wife died in 2013 was, death doesnt scare me,
May 30, 2019