My Journey. Narrated in the Language of Food.
Come to think of it, there are quite a number of figurative expressions to describe the government’s position in relation to the ongoing — dragging — violence in Mindanao. Now that we are in the middle of Ramadan, I would Continue reading Tight Rope
Here’s an intresting news story from CBS about the different Radio TV Malacañang (RTVM) video footages found after Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency in 1986. The RTVM, an agency under the Office of the Press Secretary, is in charge of Continue reading A Glimpse of the Marcoses through the RTVM Archives
The Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss Court of Appeals Associate Justice Vicente Roxas and penalize four more justices surely is a welcome development in the battle against corruption and shows that the judiciary, despite its flaws, does not waste any Continue reading Quiet on Meralco
I see the Palace’s move of abolishing the peace panel as an attempt or strategy to recover its lost strength, following the mess it made with regard to the aborted Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), plagued with loopholes, Continue reading One Step Away
My first real consciousness of governance was on June 30, 1992, when Fidel Ramos took his oath as President of the Republic. As a young kid, I was so fascinated by the fanfare of the ceremony that I even recorded Continue reading Unfulfilled Promises and Empty Rhetoric
If there is one blessing in disguise that the current political turmoil has brought to the country, it would be a Supreme Court that has been able to assert itself and make its presence more known (despite some imperfections and Continue reading An Expanded Writ of Amparo