“Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?” —The Beatles in a 1963 song, Do You Want To Know A Secret ANYONE can actually win in the Philippine election on May 12, 2025. Anybody—rich or poor, educated and uneducated, marginalized or not, married or single,
May 7, 2025
“For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That’s just a date when you were born.” —Jose Mourinho WE were neither surprised nor irritated when constantly badgered by fellow Filipinos living in the United States if “may Real ID ka na ba?” (Do you have a Real ID?)
May 6, 2025
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” — Abraham Lincoln LET’S be careful when lambasting others and destroying their reputations only because of election rivalries. It’s normal to have arguments and disagreements on certain issues. It’s normal to poke fun at comical errors and imperfections, as
May 5, 2025
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” —Lois McMaster Bujold SINCE it is election season, some people might think former Publishers Association of the Philippines Incorporated (PAPI) board chairman Johnny “Juan” Dayang, 89, was murdered in his Barangay Andagao residence
May 3, 2025
“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” —E. B. White ARMED only with “faith in God”, skills and experience in the farm in his childhood, the story of Alex Soqueña can be considered a combination of the conquests of Orpheus, Artemis, and Odysseus, all skillful and
May 1, 2025
“Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. IT’S normal to be nervous and anxious for all those involved in the campaign
April 30, 2025
“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” —Jean Racine WILL the truth come out, or it will be “swept under the rug” so as not to alarm the peace-loving people of Canada? According to
April 29, 2025
“My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.” — Cristiano Ronaldo IF you happen to barge inside a huge warehouse
April 28, 2025
“Every man is guilty of the good he did not do.” —Voltaire TO use the talent that we have been given like voting wisely during the election, reinventing ourselves, among other practical and unique qualities, is what Voltaire’s Candide can teach us about life. When we change our ways and spend the
April 26, 2025
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” —Mark Twain IT so happened that the person who recently passed away in the Vatican was the Pope; it so happened that the three famous persons who died one after
April 24, 2025
“While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.” —Lyndon B. Johnson CANDIDATES in the May 12, 2025 Philippine election can’t be blamed for acting like children in the classroom of adults. Some of them would be hounded by terrible heartaches in only about two weeks from now; they would submerge in
April 23, 2025
“Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls of Eternity NOW that the Holy Week is over, expect the “evils spirits” to come out firing on all cylinders in the resumption of campaign period for the May 12,
April 22, 2025
