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Cagayan de Oro, a week before the deluge 29 Dec 2011 | 05:17 am
“In this season of love and kindness, think Cagayan de Oro” My last night in Cagayan de Oro City last December 10 was a memorable one – and not only because it was raining furiously. I arrived in CD...
Of flawed dads and errant daughters 20 Jun 2011 | 04:46 am
The “mother and child” relationship has been celebrated and idealized so much in art and literature– and yes even in our minds – it almost sounds like a cliché. A mother is so highly revered she is al...
Ways of skinning the 'CAT' 8 Apr 2011 | 06:44 pm
Fresh high school graduates are awash with thrills and jitters. Graduation is saying goodbye to the best friend, the barkada, the first love or the current squeeze or crush, the favorite teacher, the ...
The Japanese and I 29 Mar 2011 | 05:26 am
A war baby, I was fed, while growing up, with stories about the difficult war years and the uneasy peace of the Japanese occupation. It should have been easy for me to hate the Hapon but the ambivale...
I was at EDSA, too 28 Feb 2011 | 10:44 pm
“Who do you think you are -- Gabriela Silang?” my husband snapped, as his eyes swept me over from teased head to 5'1", 98-lb frame to size-4-1/2 feet, when I woke him early and told him we HAD to go t...
Resolved as it is hereby resolved 1: muling pagsusulat 14 Jan 2011 | 03:12 am
Sa buong buhay ko, hindi ako kailanman naglista ng New Year’s resolution – puwera na lang marahil kung ako ay napilitan nang ako’y nasa hayskul dahil asaynment ito sa Homeroom o sa English Composition...
Unforgettable Christmas Stories 24 Dec 2010 | 07:01 am
I. Paskung-pasko ay nagmamaktol si Dina. “Ano ba naman si Santa Claus, hindi ba siya marunong magbasa?” Ilang Pasko nang humihiling siya at sumusulat: “Mahal na Santa Claus ang gusto ko pong aginaldo...
When wife meets mistress 13 Dec 2010 | 02:41 pm
When Nena learned her husband was keeping a mistress, her gut reaction was "to destroy." She wanted to die or to kill or at least to maim (her husband and the other woman), but in time was able to kee...
Over 60 and swooning 28 Nov 2010 | 08:45 pm
“Karma” – my BFF Gabby calls it. She couldn’t relate to me, she says – which, shorn of diplomatese, may have meant she laughed at me -- in my Dao Ming Zu days. Those were days I’d go home early to c...
House of Many Rooms 16 Nov 2010 | 10:54 pm
My house has many rooms I lock or unlock at will Some brick-walled Fortressed, forbidding Others with swinging doors Where I wraithlike slither From room to room In the order of the moon's Waxing and ...
