Patriarchal homes
Boys and girls are supposed to be equal. That is what we have been taught. However, we can’t deny our patriarchal society that remains pervasive to this day. Men hold ...
Hypocrites
The Baguio Horror Festival has met with such fierce resistance that one wonders where is that same attitude towards the prevalence of gambling in the city and larger scale of ...
Expensive graduation affairs
Usually, college graduations happen during the end of the second semester or during summer. However, some universities with trimester programs graduate some of their students at the end of the ...
Surplus labor during rainy days
We have seen it again the past one and a half months of continuous rains. People were forced to remain in their homes doing almost nothing. While there was not ...
Rely on the people
After the devastation brought about by the recent rains, the people who have suffered the most, the poorest and most unfortunate are faced with the task of rebuilding. To rebuild ...
Every storm
Though it was never fun to commute to work or classes, the series of rains have only made the experience much worse. Most of us do not have private cars ...
Defenseless
The Philippines is still unprepared. That much can be surmised from the recent heavy rains. Mere monsoons, albeit enhanced, is enough to expose the many obvious and underlying problems in ...
Alex Eala made Filipinos proud
She is barely out of her teens yet it took her, a very young lady to make Filipinos proud to the whole world. How about the political leaders of this ...
These hard times
As we have predicted early on, the economic sufferings we are enduring now, will last long. And just like in past situations, did government come to your aid? NO. The ...
What it takes to survive
If you had been following me through the articles I write for this paper then you know that I had been practically “mothballed” the past five years or so. I ...
If not autonomy, what?
A few days ago was the Cordillera Day. The day felt like an ordinary day. Indeed, it was. For autonomy, as was evident for more than a decade already was ...
Always remember
How lucky are we that typhoon Inday only managed to graze us with its tail. The former super typhoon did not land on our shores but just look how vulnerable ...
The valuable lesson from Alex Ealas’s last game
We ride on with the Alex Eala mania. In her last game in Wimbledon against Maya Joint who earlier defeated her in a heartbreaking manner, it appeared she would be ...
The right attitude during disasters
It is rainy season again. But even with the season’s regularity we seem to be always unprepared for its victims. Up to now we don’t have buildings specifically for that ...
Natural hazards
Throughout social media, we have seen the videos of structures in Mindanao shaking from the effects of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Buildings collapsed and even schools just a few feet ...
