Category: Features
Looking Good: Don’t overdo casual Friday
BY OSCAR F. PICAZO FOR Filipinos, one of the most satisfying things to do is to see and be seen. Below are some sightings in the Philippines. A couple of the sightings have no formal names, so I invented the phrases to describe them (Donald Tramp, Batman’s dimpo mini-cape). So you want to be posturyoso [...]
Facebook helps find missing Philippine grandfather
MANILA, November 23, 2011 (AFP) – Tens of thousands of sympathetic Facebook users helped reunite a Philippine grandmother with her 78-year-old husband who went missing for two weeks, the family said Wednesday. A black-and-white picture of a forlorn Aurelia Matias, 73, sitting on a street corner with a missing persons poster on her back, went [...]
Andres Bonifacio and his Camisa de Chino
By NENET GALANG-PERENA Andres Bonifacio, matapang na tao, Lumaban sa g’yera, naputol ang tenga In the small plaza beside the ancient parish church dedicated to St. John the Baptist in my river bound hometown of Calumpit stands a monument to Andres Bonifacio, where we, as school children, clad in patadyong and camisa de chino, would [...]
