The Oil Price freeze issued by President Arroyo as an Executive Order No. 839 days ago, in light of the prodding of the public and transport groups due to the island of Luzon subjected to a state of calamity though laudable is posing more problems than giving a cure.
Though oil companies have followed the EO and fixed their petroleum [...]

One of the most crucial issues that Presidentiables will have to strongly face is regarding sex education that has obviously been ignored for so long a time by politicians who easily gets terrified from getting the ire of the pharisaic clergymen of the Catholic Church side-by-side the issue of Reproductive Health Bill which is also still in legislative limbo (this [...]

Stronger and more erratic behaviors of typhoons; rising sea levels; drought; extinction of animal species; bleaching of coral reefs; and new breed of diseases.  These are only a few of the long lists of the outcomes of the steady climb on the global temperature or what we call Global Warming.
The most recent devastation that the Typhoons Ondoy and Peping brought [...]

Here comes Joseph Erap Estrada again speaking what he is really made of with his usual coarse masculine voice, bouncing over sized belly and pomade-laden signature hair style:  that, he is a premiere patron of illegal numbers game.
As if the number of years he spent behind bars (oh, I forgot, he spent his time on a remodeled jail as if [...]

I don’t know exactly what to post.
Good thing, I was on a jeepney ride with four old women who were trying to fatally convince one another that what they individually say is actually the truth; like preachers on busy street corners telling everyone to stop believing on false “Gods”, false doctrines, and the killer line of course, to mend our [...]

Felt like Brad Pitt on the film Troy.
(By the way, I once asked my students of who is the main character on the film Troy and they unanimously said “Troy!”.  Forgive me guys, cannot just get this out of my head till I share it).
Since my elementary day up to high school, writing was not my cup to tea, though [...]

After this post, I am done.
I have been barking like a mad dog all fangs and red burning eyes on my previous post regarding someone “ssshhhhhh-ing” me on the public timeline of Twitter by not tweeting political topics and issues during the surge of Typhoon Ondoy.
There were varied opinions regarding the issue from bloggers and friends all over.  And I [...]

I cannot really get this out of my head, just like the need to put up a high-speed internet connection at home: unless I write and share about it. Yes, another blogging issue for me if I may. Simply put it:  Blogging rant.
Have you experienced being told to shut up on Twitter? No, this is not [...]

I am having a great time replying to comments to a very vibrant discussion over my latest post “Do They Have the Balls To Do It“ which led some people to visit my post thinking it was a recipe on how to make a delicious Soup #5 dish, very timely for the rainy days we were experiencing that last couple of [...]

Urban Planner Felino Palafox Jr. has been saying the same thing during the 70’s on a World Bank funded study about urban planning for the Metro Manila area.
The same things that our present government officials are presenting as the surefire solutions on preventing another devastating calamity from happening right at the heart of the Metro:  not allowing houses and industries [...]