I used to wonder if the “horizon” is just a figure of speech. If it is only part of the script in that fairy tale ending to a romantic movie. On the 18th floor of this building where I’m at, rows of roofs lead to the Guimaras strait and
May 4, 2024
Outside at around 9:30 AM, the heat wave conjures pockets of mirages all over the city. The heat index hovers at around 35 degrees and as the sun further rises, it could be scalping. Some forty years ago, children could balk in the sun and play all day as
April 27, 2024
Tucked in a tiny street that snakes its way to a lake, our boutique hotel is among the many spa centers-cum-hotels in a pocket of the neighborhood called Old Quarter. Ha Noi means “between lakes.” And indeed, a few steps from our hotel is the Hoàn Kiēm Lake where,
March 28, 2024
Machismo seems too ingrained in Philippine society that it is hard to shake off. Even in courtrooms mostly dominated by male judges and prosecutors, the language used therein would sometimes be laced with gender-insensitive or misogynistic words. In Aiko Yokogawa-Tan v. Jonnell Tan and the Republic of the Philippines,
March 2, 2024
The backhand slice. It has always been my favorite shot. I can still feel the racket strings brush through under the tennis ball as if holding it for milli-seconds and then slicing the ball towards the direction that is not within reach of the player across the net. It
January 31, 2024
Troublingly, news about the upcoming power outages in the next 3-5 days is swirling on social media. It seems that the distribution utilities have yet again been forewarned by NGCP that due to the manual load drop (MLD), there would be rotational brown outs that would result. Several sectors,
January 20, 2024
Entering the brand new year, many resolutions were again “claimed”, “declared”, “owned”, or, as the millennials would call it: “manifesting”; which were verbalized to the universe. Every new year is met with a resolve to “turn a new leaf.” Wittingly or unwittingly, we synchronize this “change for the better”
January 13, 2024
If we seek harmony in music to soothe the listening ear, the law on adoption requires children of the adopter to give consent to the adoption for the sake of family harmony, too. In Nena Bagcat-Gullas v. Joselito F. Gullas, Joie Marie F. Gullas Yu, and John Vincent F.
December 30, 2023
In Elvis Presley’s song “Jailhouse Rock,” the message is to defy conventionality and embrace one’s individuality. Today’s column discusses two cases that involve jail detention and what the concerned individual can do not to defy the law but to go against conventionality. The long holidays during Christmas season would
December 16, 2023