By Alex P. Vidal “Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.”—John Walters BY the time restaurants in New York City and the state of New Jersey are permitted to increase indoor dining capacity to 50 percent, most qualified Americans may have already received their stimulus check worth $1,400
March 12, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “COVID-19, are you going to be naughty or nice to me?” ―Steven Magee SOME Filipinos in New York excited to receive their share of the federal government’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package this week have different plans for their money. “Unahin ko muna ang pambayad sa rent namin sa apartment at
March 11, 2021
lt By Alex P. Vidal “The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That’s so difficult because I don’t think anyone can ever understand it. It’s not that people don’t want to understand it, but they don’t want to touch it.”— Herschel Walker BASED on what I have personally experienced
March 10, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Access to humanitarian assistance and information are all the more important during the Covid-19 pandemic.”—Morgan Ortagus ECSTATIC that the U.S. Senate has finally passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, several Filipinos who are qualified to receive the largesse from Uncle Sam wished fellow Filipinos, especially their relatives, hit hard
March 9, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “All I want to do, ever, is play chess.” —Bobby Fischer ANY Filipino who changes his citizenship doesn’t stop being a Filipino by heart. What has changed is his permanent residence and oath of allegiance, which is technically a piece of paper. When he goes back to his native land
March 8, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.” — John Gilmour WHEN a thief intends to rob somebody in the street at night time, there’s no need for him to wear a ski mask—unless the robber targets a pawnshop or a grocery
March 6, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” —Tryon Edwards NOW that the Miss Universe Organization has set the 69th competition of the 2021 Miss Universe in the United States on May 16, will Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Rabiya Occeña Mateo finally meet her
March 5, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.”—Fran Lebowitz A FILIPINO resident of Queens in New York City was reported to have won $500,000 in a scratch-off ticket on February 24, reports reaching the Filipino community in Elmhurst said.
March 4, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.”—William Tecumseh Sherman WHEN politicians suddenly engage in feeding and gift-giving activities without any reason, there is a reason. When they start to smile like Mickey Mouse at anyone they meet in the coffeeshops, barbershops, beauty parlors, public markets,
March 2, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”—Coretta Scott King AS an Asian, I am guilty of being the No. 1 violator of the unwritten rule among Asian Americans in the United States, particularly in New York City nowadays: “Don’t
March 1, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”—Niccolo Machiavelli SARA Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio, 42, said she will not run for president in 2022. “I am not being coy nor am I doing a last minute. If the whole country doesn’t want to believe that, then I can’t do anything about it.
February 27, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “I’m addictive. I’m addicted to golf.”—Tiger Woods IN 1997, this declaration became the title of one of my articles in Sun Star Daily. A curious radio sports analyst asked me in an event we both attended in a hotel in Iloilo City: “Why did you claim that you are Tiger Woods?”
February 26, 2021