BIR Is Acting Like It's In A Movie.

Suddenly we have Elliot Nesses in our midst. I know this topic on tax evaders is a little bit a thing of the past but I just couldn’t help b...

I Think We All Should Fasten Our Seatbelts

The last thing I aimed to be seen here is a doomsayer, but for this time, I am afraid a have no choice but to sound like one. The news these...

Delicious As Sin

No, I haven’t seen the movie yet but having had a short glimpse of it through a trailer (courtesy of the Soundtrack Channel on cable televis...

The Hundred Years Trouble

In college, I was so fascinated by a historical event that happened in Europe some centuries ago and it was a highly protracted war between ...

Could Be The Shortest Significant Papacy

Joseph Ratzinger had a lock on the papacy like a shoe to Cinderella’s feet and the only one that were surprised about his ascendancy to the ...

The Bet Is On

Who do you see as the next pope? What are the chances? Look who’s betting? Nobody seems to be complaining and no one seems to mind this lott...

Systems Down!

About two days ago, my computer started on a wrong note with a strange prompt on the screen that ordered me to add driver to a new hardware ...

Gangland!

These past few days, a spate of crimes had embraced the front pages of our papers like movie banters and I thought I was watching one huge e...

Getting Closer, Yet Still Worlds Apart

Recently, another high point in relations among Southeast Asian countries was forged in the form of an international agreement that allows v...

The Art Of Playing Dumb

The U.S. Charge d’ affaires Joseph Mussomeli is one diplomat breaking the rules of diplomacy---and that at such a slipshod conduct. Accordin...

To Tinker Or Not To Tinker

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s latest public soliloquy is just about timely, but not encouraging to many of her fellow lawyerly tribesme...

Blog News, Anyone?

Hear ye’ all Bloggers, we’ve turned another milestone. In the Periscope section of the March 21, 2005 issue of Newsweek , there is this item...

A Requiem For The Pope

The Old Man Has Found A Great Well (A Requiem For Karol Josef Wojtyla 1920-2005) This one son of Poland has finally reached the bend yonder...

When Was The Last Time You Read A Book For The Second Time Around and Actually Felt Like It Was The First Time?

I just did. Right now, I am still at a lost why in the world Eva Miranda had to disappear into the great abyss of anonymity when everything ...

The Population Question: To Triumph In the Face of Adversity

A Philippine Daily Inquirer news update this afternoon called the Church incessant stance against birth control a “demographic timebomb”. I ...

A Man of Unparalled Vision

Today, a great and extraordinary man has passed away. Pope John Paul III has finally gone to the Kingdom that he had served so well. I am s...

DEUTERIUM : The White Gold of The Philippines.

When I was in highschool, Michael Peralta , an old neighborhood friend from Carmen Street but who is now residing in Los Angeles, once spoke...