(This is an old post from five years ago, which isn’t in the archives. When this site was hacked last year, I took the site down for several weeks. When I finally found time to restore the contents, I decided not to repost the old articles in html format. The recent power blackouts – 2 [...]

I asked a stranger at the bus stop the other day if he is aware that slavery still exists today and he looked at me like I was crazy. The fact of the matter is that most people today would react the same way if asked the same question because they do not know that [...]

When I worked as a young professional in the government planning agency, NEDA, there was no time clock where we could punch cards upon reporting for and leaving duty. The top boss believed in the honor system and we simply logged into a record book the time when we arrived for work and left for [...]

Half of Christmas is in the waiting. My personal opinion, of course. This came across my mind while attending the Misa de Gallo this morning. This is also one of the reasons why we have the longest Christmas season, probably in the whole world, which starts on December 16, with the first of the nine-day [...]

It’s been a scorching summer thus far, with the daily temperature going as high as 35 degrees C and political temperature has been as hot, what with the increasing number of election-related violence we see and hear in the news. The election season in Lapog has been marred with the murder of Engr. Percival Bitonio, [...]

Politics is dirty, especially our kind that features muckraking government officials throwing dirt at each other instead of making laws to ensure an economy conducive for business and economic development. Politics is dirty because it is run by money, dirty money that changes hands illegally. Already, there are reports of fake bills proliferating in the [...]