The LaSallianWhen former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo rose to power as the country’s chief executive back in 2001, she carried with her the promise of new politics — politics that is not personality-based, free of dubious acts and from pretenses, mimicry, and corruption. It is a bright image to promise, a dream that, for many, seemed very…
“Learn to enjoy being wrong,” a friend had told me once, as I stood clutching my high school diploma, all hope and youthful optimism, glad to have finally finished secondary education. This was four years ago, and I remember the urgency in her eyes as she told me, “Intellectual humility is as rare as it…
Social media opens doors to a plethora of information in an instant with just a few clicks. For a lot of us, this has become so convenient that it’s almost become second nature to believe almost anything we see online. I won’t deny that I’ve been led to believe most of what I see shared…
How can you not be romantic about baseball? It is an odd game with odd rules and very odd means in measuring a man. And all the oddities boil down to a single concept – timing. You can scatter 1,000 hits over the course of a player’s uneventful career while a single hit could make…
Engineering is universal. It is all around us, in every inch of our world and every fiber of society. It may be invisible, and it may be monumental. It is there, always. From the brisk winds that flow furiously through the Cory Aquino Democratic Space to the massive pillars of which the Henry Sy building…
Last November 8, 2013, many parts of Eastern Visayas were literally wiped out by Super Typhoon Yolanda. The government immediately began its rehabilitation work with an initial budget of P160 billion. Foreign aid from different countries also started to come in, amounting to an estimated total of P740 million. By October 2014, the government funds…
In the song entitled No Better Blues, Chancelor Bennett, or better known by his stage name Chance the Rapper; simply sang about the things that he hate the most. One of the verses in this particular song talks about how Bennett hates his bed, the dog, the couch, the road, the bar, his boss, pancakes,…
There’s no other place to look for proof that time doesn’t always heal everything than in sports. Though instances such as LeBron James’ return home to Cleveland and Luis Suarez being an integral part of FC Barcelona’s treble may erase earlier “transgressions”, these outliers don’t mask the notion in sports that wounds may heal, but…
Through television screens, streamed videos, and web updates, millions of Filipinos watched as President Benigno Aquino III climbed the steps towards the podium at the plenary hall of the Batasang Pambansa and began his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, as protesters conducted their own People’s SONA along Commonwealth Avenue.…
Recently, my friends and I have been night biking twice a week as an attempt to be fit. One night, we rode around an area that we don’t visit often. The trip there was similar to our previous ones, except for one thing. Even though we didn’t pass by a lot of people, we still…
