Random Thoughts

Ilang siglo na rin ang nakararaan nang unang mamataan ng mga dayuhan ang kahali-halinang taglay na katangian ng isang kapuluan. Una’y nakipagkaibigan sila sa dinatnan nilang mga tao sa lugar na kanilang pinagdaungan. Kalauna’y nakita nila a ...  [Read More]

February is "love month" for Patio Pacific as they offer sizzling summer packages that you will surely fall in love with, available only at the 17th Philippine Travel Tour Expo.  [Read More]

by Philip NemenzoYou either love her or hate her, this Tonette Binsol who, at the age of 36, without warning nor foreboding, joined her Creator on July 10, 2007, leaving worthwhile projects and countless friends dumbstruck over her untimely ...  [Read More]

"What would be the evolutionary consequences if pigs had wings?" my former professor in Advanced Ecology at UP Diliman once asked. Back then, I thought it was a ridiculous question, a question that I had found no answer... until now.  [Read More]

by Philip Nemenzo “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” - William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Something is rotten, indeed, but not in Denmark. One of the highlights of the recently concluded 1st Philippine Festival held on November 1 ...  [Read More]

Ernesto Macahiya wears many hats. Retired Development Bank of the Philippines executive. National Spokesman and Vice-Chairman of the Philippine Guardians Brotherhood Inc. (PGBI). Prominent rightist yet former founder of the left-leaning Kabataang Makabayan. Close associate of former senator Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan. Former Manila Times and Philippines Today columnist. The list seems endless.  [Read More]

The signing of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) by President Arroyo and then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on September 9 in Finland ushered a new chapter in Philippine-Japan relations. It is a chapter that marks the selling of the Filipino soul.   [Read More]

With the Senate passage of the biofuels bill on October 11 and the projected signing of the law next month, the people of Negros Occidental and other sugar-producing provinces are once again gearing up for the good times. Many consider it as the harbinger of the sugar industry’s resurgence from its current moribund state, and maybe even a long-awaited solution to the insurgency problem in Negros’ hinterlands.  [Read More]