I started writing this post days ago, intending it to be a post-mortem commentary and what-have-you on two disparate events that gripped the Philippines last week. But then I saw THIS and THIS and it got me wondering whether I should still pursue my earlier intention. Even my fellow bloggers have placed their two-cents worth [...]
Nothing historically significant happened on my birthday.
On the day I was born, the number 1 song in the Billboard American Pop Chart was ‘The Morning After’ by Maureen Mc Govern, the theme song from the movie ‘The Poseidon Adventure’, a disaster movie which starred a slew of big Hollywood stars such as Gene Hackman and [...]
Yesterday two significant events happened in my home and adopted countries. In the Philippines our newly elected President Noynoy Aquino III (or P-Noy, as he’d like to be called) delivered his first State of the Nation Address (SONA, in journalistic parlance) at the opening of the 15th Congress. Days before he had promised that his [...]
Something remarkable happened to me a couple of days ago. I was logged in Facebook, looking at the wall of status updates of my friends. A name popped up in a friend’s status update comments. A blast from the past. Before I could control myself, I directed a question to her, asking if she, by [...]
Yesterday marked the passing of one of the most prominent Filipinos I’ve known in my lifetime. After more than a year of battling colon cancer, former President Cory Aquino passed away peacefully, amidst the flurry of prayers and support from Filipinos around the world. A healing mass was held here in Phnom Penh last Friday [...]
I already did this in my Facebook page. Joined my fellow Filipinos in praying for the recovery (if not the peaceful passing on) of former president Cory Aquino in her struggle with the big C. They’ve been doing this around the Philippines. Also in Twitter and in the blogging world. This post, in fact, was [...]