“One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people—men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.”—Magnus Carlsen AT past three o’clock in the afternoon on October 16, Mario Lawsin Rebano bade
October 18, 2023
“Urgency creates decision making.”—Kevin Brady SIXTEEN years ago when it opened in 2007, the Iloilo Airport was considered to be the fifth busiest airport in the Philippines, but not as busy compared today where there have been recorded arrivals of 2,550 passengers including infants; while the departure traffic reached as high
October 17, 2023
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” —Benjamin Franklin BOTH talking and writing are the most effective means of communication since the antiquity. In this modern time, it’s not enough that we write, we must try to also talk or write the way we talk vice versa. Writing
October 16, 2023
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.” —Mahatma Gandhi STILL on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Most interpersonal violence is really immoral, not just terrorist invasions like what happened in southern Israel on October 7, and Israel’s
October 14, 2023
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell THE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Region 6 doesn’t have records, as of this writing, of Ilonggo Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and their families who have contacted their office to coordinate and ask help for possible
October 13, 2023
“Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.”—Daniel Barenboim ONE morning sometime in September 2015, while I sat on a bench in front of the Fox News building on Avenue of Americas (otherwise known as Sixth Street) in New York’s Midtown Manhattan, I read on
October 12, 2023
“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.” – Eldridge Cleaver HISTORY tells us that 100,000 Filipino civilians perished brutally when Japanese forces invaded Manila and fought against American soldiers in what became known as the Battle of Manila
October 11, 2023
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”—George Santayana TIMES Square is considered to be the Plaza Miranda and Iloilo Freedom Grandstand of New York City. When political, religious, transport, peasant, labor, women, and student protest rallies occur we normally see large gatherings of warm bodies with their streamers
October 10, 2023
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”—George Washington EVEN in beauty competitions both for ladies and LGBT, some candidates would exclaim, “world peace” in response to the judge’s question about their wish or dream for the world. In schools, the favorite mantra of
October 9, 2023
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”—John C. Maxwell PUBLIC officials who badmouth their critics after being exposed of committing acts of dishonesty and doing irregularities involving the public funds shouldn’t be trusted especially when they aspire for higher offices. These types of
October 7, 2023
“The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.”—Mark Zuckerberg WHOEVER is maintaining the “Jerry Treñas” Facebook or Meta account is doing both Iloilo City Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas and his Ilonggo constituents a big service. Iloilo City in general is
October 6, 2023
“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”—Milton Berle WHEN Surigao Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez was ousted as House speaker in July 2018, his tormentors immediately installed former President and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as his replacement. In contrast, American lawmakers did not have an immediate replacement
October 5, 2023