Tag: June 25, 2005

NAKABIBINGI ang sigaw ni Lolo.

Minsa’y pinagalitan niya ako dahil nabasag ko ang plato habang naglalaro kami ng aking pinsan. Bagaman aksidente ang lahat, hindi pa rin napigil ang pagsabog ng galit niya. Gusto ko sanang sabihing maliit na bagay lang iyon, ngunit nanaig ang aking paggalang. Yumuko na lamang ako, humingi ng tawad at tinanggap ang parusa.

SINO nga ba ang “The Best” na isama sa kabilang buhay?

Sa laban ng kabutihan at kasamaan umiikot ang tema ng TAO: Isang Tagu-laylay (UST Pub-lishing House, 2004) ni Frank Rivera na hango sa isang anonymous na dulang The Summoning of Everyman, na tungkol sa makasalanang pamumuhay ng mga tao at sa pambabale-wala nila sa mga sakripisyo ni Kristo upang maisalba ang sangkatauhan.

Ayon sa The University of Santo Tomas in the Twentieth Century ni Josefina Lim-Pe, mahigit kumulang sa tatlong siglong (1611-1924) naging eksklusibo ang UST sa mga kalalakihan dahil sa tutol ang mga Dominikanong prayle na maging “co-education” ang Unibersidad.

SO WHAT if it was President Arroyo talking in those recordings? Strict rules of evidence say that is not enough to prove that there was fraud actually committed at the polls.

FOR THE past few weeks, I have been closely monitoring the row between the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP). From what I’ve read in the papers, the spat is far from over as BAP elected new officials despite the POC-imposed suspension.

LIFE is unpredictable, we will never know what comes our way but still some try to predict the unpredictable. The daily horoscope, palm reading and tarot-card reading are just some of the ways that allegedly reveal the future.

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THE USUAL turmoil brought about by the yearly opening of classes was overshadowed by a not-so-auspicious series of events that ironically, transpired in time for the Republic’s 107th Independence Day celebrations. A clean slate, a fresh start, 10,000 new public school teachers, all forgotten thanks to one tapped telephone conversation.

While moms and babes gear up for the school year ahead, confusion and unrest take hold of the nation’s reins.

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THIS country’s history is pockmarked with events of opposition and toppling down of governments, so much so that people are tiring of it as the method of choice when dealing with undesirable political incidents.

Habang hitik ang usapan ukol sa tape na naglalaman ng di umano’y pandaraya ni Pangulong Arroyo sa nakaraang eleksyon, mahalaga rin na mabigyan ng pansin ang isa pang uri ng “tape” na matagal nang salot ng ating bayan. Ang “red tape.”

Gaano ba katagal ang pagkuha ng munting driver’s license?

IN CELEBRATION of the fiesta season, Raul Lakan Ilaw’s first exhibit, Debosyon, spruced up the Hiraya Gallery last May 28.

A graduate of the University’s then College of Architecture and Fine Arts, Lakan Ilaw had a successful career in local advertising as an art director. In 1993, however, he relocated and found greener pastures in the United Arab Emirates, and later in Shanghai, China. In the decade that he worked abroad, he showed a deep longing for his native Binangonan. The homesickness was the subject of the exhibit.