Frogs

It’s both startling and astonishing how the weather behaves strangely nowadays. In the initial days of March, when summer was supposed to be...

EGGPLANTS LACED WITH SPICES AND DIAMONDS

Lotlot, our helper, said there was no fish available in the neighborhood flea market. I immediately scoured the weather in my mind and asked...

Think You Can Wait Video (Win Win) - The National

Great new music from my most favorite new band. It is a song the band made for the independent film "Win Win" which stars Paul Gia...

The Phenomenology of James Bond Movies and The James Bond Character Itself

I WAS TUNED TO A JAMES BOND MOVIE the other night and caught it somewhere near its climactic end. I could not anymore tell what movie title ...

Gold-Skinned Creatures in Twilight

One day while darkness crept slowly into the night, I was in a hide-and-seek game when suddenly, as I looked into the area full of banana tr...

Pnoy Signs Landmark Framework Agreement with MILF

The government of President Noynoy Aquino ends today what is the last of the insurgencies that the country have suffered through the years b...

Of Absolute Certainty

I'VE LEARNED SOMETHING THESE DAYS ; or rather I have suddenly waked up to a realization that somehow becomes an elevating idea for me, o...

Bangsamoro Offers New Hope for Lasting Peace in Mindanao

Often, peace is the most difficult to attain in this world, especially involving insurgencies and rebellions within a sovereign territory, t...

Mumford & Sons New Album : Mumfordmania! Arrives with Babel

Folk rock is not British creation but it is huge in Great Britain, had a strong folk scene there for decades in fact, where for example folk...

Decriminalizing Libel: An Antidote to the Chilling Effect on Press Freedom

While Senator Edgardo Angara had yesterday made suggestion that the entire regime of libel laws should be abolished, thereupon decriminalizi...

Philippine Cybercrime Law Impedes Freedom of Speech, Might be Declared Unconstitutional

With online protest over the enactment of RA 10175 reaching a height with anonymous hackers maiming the websites of several major government...

The Killer's "Battle Born" Debuts at Number 3 in Billboard Top Albums Chart

The Killer’s “Battle Born” bursts into the market just today and debuts at #3 at the Billboard Top 200 Albums and every Killers fans should ...

The Dark Years : Martial Law Had Brought Havoc to this Nation

Today, September 21, marks the 40th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the Philippines. In 1972, former president Ferdinand E....

Keane Live in Manila

One of my favorite new bands is coming to Manila. Keane will render their soothing and extremely likeable music to local fans on October 2, ...

Philippine Cybercrime Law Punishes Online Libel, CyberSex Among Others

On September 12, President Aquino signed into law the “Philippines Cybercrime Bill” or Republic Act No. 10175 “AN ACT DEFINING CYBERCRIME, P...

Senator Trillanes May Have Been Back-Channeling for China, Says Senate President Enrile

It turns out that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV had been back-channeling for the Philippines for longer period than what was previously repor...