She stood quietly, unsure—just a slip of paper in her hand, eyes moving from face to face. The hallway was loud, busy, uncaring. No one stopped. A lola from Antique, new to Iloilo, unsure of what to do, hoping to help her daughter in pain at the ICU. She did not
September 23, 2025
The Trillion Peso March is not just a gathering. It is the nation’s conscience stepping out of its house and into the streets. People are marching not only against corruption but for something more fundamental—the right to the truth. Without truth, trust dies, and with it, the very idea of democracy.
September 22, 2025
September 21 is no ordinary date. It marks 53 years since Martial Law was declared, when silence was enforced and fear was law. Today, the call is different: to show up, not in fear but in fairness. The “Trillion Peso March” is not nostalgia for the barricades, nor is it partisan
September 20, 2025
A colleague once joked that the cheapest therapist in the country was a Jollibee Chickenjoy meal. It was funny—but only because it was a little too true. When things get rough, most of us do not reflect or take a walk. We eat. And often, not out of hunger, but habit.
September 19, 2025
Public life can feel loud on our screens, yet strangely quiet in many offices. People look up from their desks, share a glance, then return to deadlines. It is not apathy—it is calculation. Families depend on paydays, and reputations are fragile. Many who see what is wrong keep their thoughts in
September 18, 2025
Floodwater does not knock. It slips under the classroom door, pools on the floor, and turns the chalk tray into a narrow canal. Children lift their bags to save notebooks. A teacher, sleeves rolled, cuts the power and hoists the CPU onto a higher shelf. Outside, a tarp boasts of a
September 17, 2025
Scrolling through the usual billionaire quotes and tech chatter, I stumbled upon something from Bill Gates that made me pause. It was not about stocks, philanthropy, or saving the world through software. This time, he talked about something closer to the gut—our jobs. Gates, the man behind Microsoft, warned that only
September 16, 2025
Ask a bunch of students what “global citizenship” means and you will probably hear answers about passports, plane tickets, or the United Nations. For many, it sounds far away, even hard to grasp. But after weeks in the GCED Online Course facilitated by Dr. Jeff Plantilla under UNESCO-APCEIU, the phrase no
September 13, 2025
We watch the hearings like we watch a storm. We keep one eye on the radar, the other on the living room floor in case water creeps in. Lately the noise is not just thunder. Contractors wave ledgers. Senators trade punchlines. And too many questions stop at 2022—as if floods began
September 12, 2025
The applause had not yet faded when Dharlene Gan of Dakila and the Active Vista Center stepped onto the stage, her words sharp and steady, a reminder that the afternoon was not only about watching a movie but about confronting the mirrors that history still holds. The September 8 forum, Bayani
September 11, 2025
The WVSU Cultural Center this Monday afternoon, September 8, was already alive before the program even began. In the lobby, ushers moved briskly, keeping the lines flowing and the rows inside neat and ready. Teachers clutched attendance sheets, ticking names with care, while campus journalists juggled their cameras, eager to get
September 10, 2025
Iloilo City did not sleep well last August. While many were winding down with the usual café brews and TikTok reels, news broke that a teenager had been stabbed in Jaro Plaza, and a group of minors were caught exchanging punches at the ICC grounds like it was some post-curfew turf
September 9, 2025
