“Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.”— David Binder WE don’t understand why some national media networks continue to treat the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City
January 18, 2023
“When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.” — Saint John IT was probably racially motivated when detractors of R’Bonney Gabriel tried to tarnish her reign as the first Filipino-American Miss USA back in October 2022.
January 17, 2023
“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”— Francis Bacon LET’S make this clear: the Dinagyang Festival has nothing to do with the construction of the Iloilo flyover in Ungka, Pavia. Dinagyang Festival is a cultural and religious event
January 16, 2023
“Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.”— Robert Baden-Powell BEFORE the Philippines participated in the US-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, it
January 14, 2023
“The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.”— Ted Nugent WHY only ask the high-ranking Philippine National Police (PNP) officials to tender their “courtesy” resignation? The police organization isn’t the only rotten agency in the Philippine
January 13, 2023
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”— H. L. Mencken ALMOST everybody in Western Visayas has been talking about the ill-fated $680-million Iloilo flyover in Ungka, Pavia, but most of the Iloilo congresspeople requested by the Pavia legislature to file a formal House inquiry continued to play
January 12, 2023
“Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades.”—Kayleigh McEnany THE “small” man, Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raoul Manuel has beaten to the draw his “bigger” fellow Ilonggo colleagues in the House of Representatives when he became the first congressman to declare an intention to seek for a formal House inquiry on the controversial
January 11, 2023
“A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.”— David R. Brower IF I were a cop (not necessarily holding a position of colonel or general) and being asked to tender my “courtesy resignation” by Interior Secretary
January 10, 2023
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”— Ernest Benn LIKE an owl hunting for small mammals at night, I stayed up late in front of the TV screen on January 6 (Friday) until past 12 midnight on January 7
January 9, 2023
“I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn’t what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.”—Sue Monk Kidd THE dilemma Pinay nurse Regina and her fellow nurses in a Manhattan private hospital’s neonatal ICU are facing sounds
January 7, 2023
“We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.” — Jon Oringer UNTIL I agreed to renew my Microsoft 365 Personal “yearly” subscription worth $76.20 (including tax) on January 4, 2023, Best Buy Geek Squad (New York) barred me from using the
January 6, 2023
“Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.” — Pratibha Patil POLITICIANS who mulct from DPWH contractors are partly to blame if some infrastructure projects are substandard
January 5, 2023
