Huwag ka sanang magpadala kay Conrado de Quiros o kay Alex Magno o kay Bongbong Marcos (strange bedfellows, eh?) na hinahamon kang tumakbo for president sa 2010, na para bang if you dont seize the day ay tipong you will miss the bus altogether.
I so disagree.  While it is true that you could win because of the Ninoy-Cory-Kris connection, are you really ready?   The nation would expect great things of you.  The nation would expect you to be a president extraordinaire who would at …

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While it was great that upon Cory’s death Pinoy TV was swamped with docus that revisited her exalted place in Philippine history, one docu, Laban ni Cory, produced and aired many times by ABS-CBN 2 from August 2 onward, raised my ire and my eyebrows.
My ire because some of Karen Davila’s narrative spiels covering the period of the snap elections through to EDSA sounded oh so familiar, so very close to, if not my very own words in, Himagsikan sa EDSA — Walang Himala! and yet there was …

Photo source: Cory’s last visit to Makati
When Ninoy died and his remains lay in bloodied state sa Times Street, pumila kami that night, my husband and I, to pay our respects, never mind that Marcos might get mad or his military might be watching.  We just had to pay homage to this man who won our respect when he, alone, suffered jail for seven years and seven months rather than bow to a dictator, and when he dared come home from exile because the Filipino is worth dying …

Take note, mga ka-barrio.   Reyna Elena was first on the blogosphere, launching yesterday afternoon the call to tie a yellow ribbon for Cory Aquino, sending her a message of love from a grateful people.  Kumbaga, yoohoo Cory, you’re on our minds, you’re in our hearts!
Someone may have tipped the Binays off, or naunahan lang sila ni Reynz, but last night, according to the news, the Mayor’s people had started tying yellow ribbons around the Makati Medical cCenter and along major thoroughfares, promising to do the same citywide.
The first time …

Ano ba talaga?  Kahapon ito ang balita:  Arroyo to sign cheap meds EO
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will finally sign next week the executive order placing a price ceiling on 22 essential drugs sold in the country.
Malacañang made the announcement Tuesday amid allegations that Pfizer Phil. had tried to bribe the President with some P100 million worth of discount cards for distribution to indigent patients around the country.
Pero today iba na:  Palace backtracks on issuing cheap meds EO!
Malacañang on Wednesday said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would first take into …

Michael Jackson memorial begins
Unlike American media that’s obsessing about Michael Jackson’s lifestyle and alleged misuse of drugs that supposedly led to his sudden death, I am just happy to wallow in his spectacular music and dance, courtesy of videos on cable  TV and YouTube on the internet.
I can watch him over and over again, and he dazzles me every time, as he dazzled me over time, even when his face and color were changing — from black man-child to white androgyne, neither man nor woman, which became to me a …