There is a shirt in your rack that you will choose to wear for the comfort of home. It is not the most expensive one, not of any elite brand. It is not stylish. Not bold, nor flamboyant. On the contrary it is simple, sometimes worn out. Faded from being that special old shirt used …
After some time, the valley was woken up by a musical siren. A loud and familiar one reminiscent of the town’s Woodstock concert at the valley’s oldest playground fifteen years ago. Then, the colorful fireworks embracing the wide-eyed spectators. The next day was followed by lesser sound – useless rumbling and complaints about what could …
The stage welcomes solo performances in any stage of life. Most of the time and just like any momentous experience, the solo flight starts rough, or even ugly, and rightfully so in the gamble of life, and the investment of thoughts and emotions. The closest people become enemies or strangers, and the rage of the …
The world has moved on, as they say. It is no longer what it was nor what we expect. The dreams have changed. Ask any wide-eyed kid what they want to do in life and they will gleefully say a “vlogger” or a “tiktok star” or an “influencer” – whatever that means in today’s language. …
At least Monday Manong is better than a Tito Thursday. And what better way to celebrate your thirties than to tell a story, just like any “mature” dude you meet in a party? Tell it like a drunk uncle, or an elder in a bonfire…sing it, write it. But, in the world today that doesn’t …
Before the celebrated 17 Sustainable Development Goals, there is the Philippine Agenda 21 (PA21). This was launched on September 26, 1996, and was written in response to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, integrating social development into the country’s governance framework. PA21 focuses on investments in human and social capital, health, population management, …
