(I wrote this piece in August 2014 after President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) where he was seen by the audience as “almost breaking…
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LAST night, I watched at Netflix the movie “THE TWO POPES” featuring how Pope Benedict XVI renounced the papacy in the Vatican in Rome to POPE FRANCIS. No wonder when…
(This piece was written sometime in February 2014 when ordinary folks called “social media netizens” world-wide took center stage competing and challenging professional journalists and trained writers in commenting and…
(Sometime in June, 2014, I attended a “round-table chat” ( except that the tables were rectangular) on culture and arts with some Davao editors which included event prime mover Editor-in-Chief…
EARLY last week people in Davao City going to the downtown area noticed a coffin display in some Corona Virus Disease (CoViD) 19 checkpoints (or what used to remain of…
AS this year’s Christmas Day nears, Luzon and the Visayas islands have been badly battered relentlessly by succeeding and seemingly unending typhoons. Several died. Thousands have lost their homes, others…
I RECALL this article I wrote 6 years ago when I visited last Monday, November 9, the grave of my late father, Martin, Sr. who celebrated his 99th birthday in…
Last Episode ZAMBOANGA CITY ( Nov 23, 2013)– I had that eerie, weird feeling scanning the destroyed houses as we “toured” the so-called “ground zero” where Ustadz Habier Malik and…
(2nd episode) September 23, 2013 — I had a long chat with former President Ramos in his Makati office last Thursday. He still holds sway in his 26th floor office…
