“You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.” – Daniel Craig TWO months ago, I received a private message from a media colleague in the Philippines warning me “to beware of Choy Guevarra (not his real
June 28, 2025
“Nobody roots for Goliath.” – Wilt Chamberlain WE didn’t have to wake up Wednesday (June 25) morning to learn that a giant upset rocked the Democratic Party primary for New York City mayor. Never mind the three-day deadly heat wave currently impacting the Eastern United States, with triple-digit temperatures and extreme
June 27, 2025
“My favorite animal is a polar bear. They’re going extinct, and I really don’t want that to happen.” – Quvenzhane Wallis MY meeting with Tundra in Bronx was accidental. In the first place, I never knew Tundra was a superstar; I had no idea he was once a Youtube sensation. Tundra made
June 26, 2025
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I’M not paranoid, but while writing this article inside the McDonalds branch at Manhattan’s glitzy Chelsea district June 23 evening, I nervously observed what was going on in the streets amid
June 25, 2025
“There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.” – Carl Jung THE government, especially the Department of Justice (DoJ) now headed by a former politician from Cavite, should be careful in swapping verbal darts against loquacious and discredited former
June 21, 2025
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” – Will Rogers WE have been advocating for abolition of the Philippine Senate, the Upper Chamber of the House, since 2013 or 12 years ago. Even before the shameful
June 19, 2025
“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.”—Joe Frazier YOU may be wondering why boxing—both professional and amateur—is fast losing credibility. You may also wonder why, as the UFC gains meteoric popularity, the faith of many fans in
June 18, 2025
“Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn’t mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn’t know about why it happened.” – Reba McEntire WE have covered in the media several air mishaps involving commercial, private and military aircrafts in the
June 17, 2025
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.” —Will Rogers EVEN if we make multiple bogus social media accounts or mount the loudest microphones and speakers in Calle Real to slam and vilify all those lousy politicians, there’s no way we can vanish them. Running
June 13, 2025
“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” – Elton John IF the senators in the
June 12, 2025
“To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.” — Chris Evert CARLOS Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner aren’t politicians and presidential wanna-bes. They aren’t magicians or Hollywood stars and
June 11, 2025
“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.” —John Burroughs IT isn’t there anymore. Newseum was the only place in the United States, and in the whole world for that matter, where we used to find the names of our fellow Ilonggo print
June 10, 2025