Bongbong Marcos, first Filipino on the moon

 
 
FROM High Fly the Honeymoon Nixons, an article written by Quijano de Manila quoting US president Richard Nixon’s dinner speech delivered in Malacañang during his one-day visit to the Philippines in August 1969. The article was also included in a 1977 anthology Doveglion and Other Cameos by the same author.
“When Mrs. Marcos visited [...]

UP Beloved

From a text message sent by Jay Giovanni Bautista:
Presenting the universities in the country!
1. UP – University of the Philippines
2. PNU – Para Ngang UP
3. UST – UP Sana Tayo!
4. ADMU – Ayaw Daw Mag-UP
5. DLSU – Di Lumusot Sa UPCAT
6. FEU – Failed to Enter UP
7. MAPUA – Meron Akong Panaginip, UP Ako..
8. SLU [...]

I’m back (well sort of)

PROFESSIONAL demands, personal commitments, and various other activities which involve lounging about in the apartment in my boxers while half-asleep has prevented me from updating this blog regularly. Besides having written a book—which is currently being edited—in the past month, I have also been preoccupied on the professional front, trying my very best to produce [...]

A reader’s lament

A review of “Long and tortuous road to coconut levy recovery” by Romeo C. Royandoyan
Published by Centro Saka Inc. (Philippine Center for Rural Development Studies)
Copyright 2007
NO question about it: Romeo “Omi” C. Royandoyan has done a lot to advance the cause of the Filipino coconut farmer.
Currently the executive director of Centro Saka Inc. (CSI), [...]

Entourage: A Review

ENTOURAGE is a wet dream.
Which explains why male teenagers and middle-aged men are falling all over themselves just to follow the misadventures of Hollywood’s fictional Gang of Four—Vincent “Vinny” Chase (Adrian Grenier), fast-rising movie star; Eric “E” Murphy (Kevin Connolly), his best friend and manager; Johnny “Drama” Chase (Kevin Dillon); Vinny’s lesser-known and somewhat down [...]