The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
That seemed to be the singular criterion that the one-dimensional statement that Benigno Aquino III repeatedly refrains, much like a warped broken record when he declared the qualities of a leader he felt would merit his endorsement, support and the billion-peso funding his administration and the ruling Liberal Party would array against challenges to the presidential throne in 2016. He …
Points of View & Perspectives
June, 2015
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15 June
The Filipino language: A debatable identity?
I should have insisted, “Filipino is my native language not Tagalog, and yes, it’s called the same as my (former) citizenship, and it cannot be the same as American is to English (language).”8 But cornered by the crisp tone of the Tagalog reviewer’s written comment, I felt my limbs deliquescing as the proverbial shadow of a doubt took over my …
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15 June
Immigration bureau coddling fugitives?
Something stinks to high heavens in the Bureau of Immigration (BI), and this case is proving to be the latest kink in this administration’s much-ballyhooed straight and righteous path.
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8 June
The discordant melody of mining (Conclusion)
Three global developments compel us to analyze the Phillippines mining industry against the traditional exploitive imagery that the sector is arrayed against where perceived negativity reigns due to persistent misconceptions.
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8 June
The Pinoy student’s seesaw world: Is it ‘baon’ or ‘pasahe’ today?
Either way, the answer cannot but tip the seesaw; balance comes from both—the student’s life as played out daily. As I recall, in my high-school years, I walked to school carrying baon in an Army mess kit, probably inherited from an uncle, often with rice and a dry main dish like grilled chicken, or a few cubes of adobo.
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8 June
Graceless attack on Poe
The statements of Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco, interim president of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA); and UNA Secretary-General JV Bautista that Sen. Grace Poe is not qualified to run for higher office in 2016 due to circumstances surrounding her birth and residency have only managed to endear her to the people.
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1 June
The discordant melody of mining (First part)
If mining had music, its melody would be discordant where what popular tunes might be in direct contradiction with its libretto, the notes and the cleft, the specific details that comprise its music violently divergent and contradictory resulting in a cacophony of noise, painful and excruciating.
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1 June
Surprise of my life: ‘Misua’ isn’t Chinese
It had confounded me that I couldn’t find a package of misua in four shelves of what looked like an all-nation variety of Oriental noodles at our neighborhood Chinese-run produce store here in Vancouver. My frantic state of mind must be blinding me, I had thought—as the clock over the garlic/onion/ginger/yam/potato bins clicked fast to suppertime—or maybe, it’s going by a …
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1 June
Mar ready, but are voters ready for him?
In the strongest indication that he is, indeed, running for president, Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas announced last week that he is ready to face President Aquino’s declaration that he is the top choice to continue with the government’s anti-corruption campaign.
May, 2015
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24 May
First smile: Piecing together a memory
The more I plumb my memories, which tend to link with almost any theme or subject I tackle, the more I’m convinced that not facts but feelings anchor us to our past. No matter how studies on the role of memory in everyday life place learning, meaning knowledge skills, at the core, I associate most of what I seem to …