February 2012
3 posts
Winning elections isn’t just about getting more seats than our opponents, it’s about getting a mandate to shape the future.
I hope KAMPI will teach us to stand our ground, explain our future decisions, face down our possible critics and together we will achieve victory through adversity.
We will hold on together. We will stay united. We will come through the fire as one.
We...
Empty houses
I write this one Saturday in February, on a week when the crime stories have forced their way into the daily seven-o’clock newscasts in spite of the impeachment of the Chief Justice. This is Manila, where priests promise love and success and jobs overseas to the souls who touch the cross of the Black Nazarene.
The sun burns hot here, melts the skin off electric posts and strikes bright white...
The Winning Smile
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Super nakakakilig… :)
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When I was still teaching in the University of the Philippines Los Baños, I used to tell my students the story about how I met a stranger on a bus, as an example of an autobiographical report. Semester after semester, the reactions I got were always the same: kilig. Here goes:
It was a Monday night. I boarded an HM bus in Cubao after my evening class...