By Limuel S. Celebria I started taking my anti-cancer medication, pazopanib, last week – on the day I was released from WVSU Medical Center. Today, seven days later I’m beginning feel some side effects. I maybe imagining but, already, I can feel a war raging inside my body. Every so often, pain or what we
October 7, 2022
At the turn of this millennium, back in those days when I was still deep in the media game as founding editor of a regional daily based in Iloilo City, there was this flock of newshens that prettified the various beats with their vivacious charms. But the soft veneer is nothing
October 5, 2022
The other day, I received from the US-based Filipino American Cancer Care (FACC) Association the total amount of US$1,240 for my cancer medication (I suffer from Renal Cell Carcinoma Stage IV with pulmonary metastasis). The assistance was personally handed to me by Leocita Talanas Sauter and her husband. Leocita is an
October 4, 2022
My first bottle of Pazopanib – an anti-cancer drug, came through the other day after being shipped from Cebu City. As soon as I get cleared of my pneumonia and other minor ills, we will begin protocols on a targeted drug therapy program. The battle against cancer will be joined. I
September 30, 2022
Oh my god I’m dying. The morbid thought flashed through my mind as soon as I read the final diagnosis in the Medical Certificate issued by doctors looking after my health at the West Visayas State University Medical Center. The Diagnosis said: Pneumonia in an immunocompromised host; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
September 28, 2022
Iloilo is opposition country. At least according to the “old politicians” (like former Governor Rading Norada) who said that whenever there’s a national election, opposition candidates or those who run against the administration almost always won. But I guess this was before 1972. Post Martial Law, every election was dominated by the
February 24, 2022
I got invited to a zoom presentation Wednesday morning by this new online group Tangere, a self-proclaimed award-winning research group and big data analytics platform. Tangere was offering to share the results of a recent online survey – The Voice of the Online Filipinos, a series of insightful deep-dive in the
December 17, 2021
By Limuel S. Celebria I first became aware of Cong. Oscar “Oca” Garin Sr. during a trip to Antique sometime in the late ‘80s. By this time, I have already logged in a few years as a correspondent for Ang Pahayagang Malaya and was writing a column for the region’s pioneering newspaper, the Western Visayas
October 4, 2021
By Limuel Celebria Perhaps only those who play chess will immediately know what I’m talking about. But for the uninitiated, the title of this column is about one of the numerous opening strategies available to players of the game. Characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.f4, the King’s Gambit is described as “an old opening
September 13, 2021
By Limuel S. Celebria A few months ago, Iloilo City power distributor MORE Power and Electric Company cut-off the ties that bound its predecessor, Panay Electric Co. (PECO) to the local generator Global Power. This allowed MORE to foray into the open electricity market and forge more consumer-friendly contracts with other power generators. The result?
September 6, 2021
By Limuel S. Celebria Iloilo City’s power consumers should expect a drastic drop in their already reduced electricity bills beginning the next billing cycle. This after local franchisee and distributor MORE Electric and Power Corp recently turned on its 69KV switching station at Brgy. Banuyao, LaPaz which directly connects MORE’s distribution lines to the Visayas
May 31, 2021
By Limuel Celebria Martin Soriano, a local businessman and somewhat of a celebrity in his younger days here in Iloilo City, is facing legal entanglements with British royalty, specifically Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, over a trademark registration. The row stems from Soriano’s application for use of the tradename Archewell Harvatera for
January 16, 2021