Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
This post was updated on July 27, 2014. It’s easy to pay Php250 for a shirt, wear it, have your picture taken, go online and upload it on Facebook. But it’s another thing to actually practice what you preach – go out on field, do the legwork, sweat it out, …
This article was printed in the youth section of Cebu Daily News on February 24, 2012. Posting this as a background article before I write about The Basadours tomorrow (14 January 2014). The love affair started with a tabloid newspaper written in Cebuano. It was the year 1996. My grandparents, …
The concept was to make them models of the two newspapers I write for – Philippine Daily Inquirer and Cebu Daily News. Already, the room was showered with so much cuteness when they arrived. But as it turned out, my little girl Toni fell asleep after two straight hours of …
Meet the two ladies who serve as our twins’ real-life guardian angels ever since they were a week old. The twins were barely a week old when my Mom arrived at our apartment in Mandaue City (Cebu) with two, young ladies in tow. Their names: Joy and Elsie. They come …
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Friends, Ladies, Gentlemen, On this day, the sixth of January in the year of our Lord two thousand and fourteen, I present to you … There is one person that made the birth of this logo possible. Her name is Carmela Quiapo. Or you can just call her… Charmie. Charmie …
Let me tell you a story about how Cris Evert chose Cinderella over Rapunzel.
Meet a literati and his books Is it possible for a person to own so many books and read all of them in her or his lifetime? Meet Jessie Cubijano, a 30-something professional, who keeps a collection of 800 to 1,000 books in his house in Mandaue City. Can he finish …
When Timothy Uriel was born, I took it upon myself the personal responsibility of influencing him to read books. My main goal was simple – I wanted my nephew to become a passionate reader. How do you do that? Hmmm… Honestly, I did not have any idea. I did not …
I went to high school at the Saint Peter’s College (SPC) of Ormoc (Leyte), where I learned the values of hardwork coupled with fervent prayer. That’s Ora et Labora in Latin. ORA ET LABORA. Nothing is impossible if you pray and work. From www.catholicdadsonline.org In SPC, I had the chance …
