MOST of the local entrepreneurs have lots of complaint when the economy is down. you will always hear every corner of the streets…mahina ang benta, kukunting taong bumibili, so on and so forth… It can be difficult enough to grow, expand and maintain a healthy business in a strong economy. When…

SUS MARIAKUSINA, NAGBUSI MANEN TI NGAWNGAW NI SEN. MIRIAM SANTIAGO! Kasla gubat manen idiay senado. Di uray met napleng ti sinabonna nga abogado ti prosecution ta nagapput ti lapayagna. Iti kasta nga eksena, ania ti makunayo apo? Marespeto ngata ida? Wenno kayatmo idan a batuen iti ETAG!…

(Speech delivered by the author during the monthly general meeting of the Philippine Institute of Architects – PIA – Manila Section February 24, 2012 in Pasig City, Metro Manila)

> LICENSURE EXAMINATION. every applicant seeking to be registered and licensed as a real estate service…

(This revisit of a piece way back was triggered by an e-mail ribbing from Igorot Global Organization (IGO) president Ceasar Castro who dropped what he was doing to welcome me last October. He wondered what IGO would have in return for my sharing Ifugao jokes at its 9th International Igorot…

AS USUAL, the Panagbenga Float Parade was still the showcase of the Flower Festival. The Baguio Country Club and SM City Baguio, both Hall of Famers to the festival have always showcased flower floats of unparalleled beauty. A definite attraction and surely to be posted by many in their own…

ON THE balmy, almost-summer night of February 21, all roads led to the cavernous World Trade Center, bringing in hundreds of physicians from all over the country to witness a landmark event in the history of health service delivery in the Philippines.

Indeed, two giants in the…

I RECEIVED this text message a few days ago from my friend, Lito Pangilinan:

“The road to success is not straight. there is a Curve called Failure, and a Loop called Confusion; Speed Bumps called Friends; Red Lights called Enemies: Caution Lights called Family. there are Flats called Jobs…

FIRST of all, I would like to greet my beloved daughter, Ma. Gina Balweg-Sison, on her March 2012 natal day. she is travelling with her husband, Lyndon Sison, a son of the late Atty. Ambrosio Sison of the Court of Appeals. They are accompanying their sons Donyell and Gian Luc. Donyell is seeking…

BE PART of Baguio’s sports history. Join the 1st Kennon Global Marathon Run on April 15. Certainly, this is a chance of a lifetime to join the international footrace to honor the builders of Kennon Road during the last century. Multi-racial casts of runners are expected to showcase their…

IT USED to be that we would both see and later complain of the north part of Magsaysay Avenue Baguio-bound half to be occupied by boulders, mud, debris, and garbage, which gave reason for short vehicle-length free-segments to be filled by parked cars to behemoth-sized trucks. thus, the two-lane…

DESIRING to increase mutual understanding and peaceful relations between the people of the United States and those of other countries, the late Senator J. William Fulbright introduced the Fulbright Program which is an international educational exchange program established by the U.S. Congress in…

I WAS on Facebook several days ago and there was one post from an acquaintance that really floored me. she said that she did not understand what the fuss is all about with the trees. Soon as I read that I went to her page to check where she lived. no, not to visit her and talk to her … I wanted…

WHO wouldn’t like flowers? These were the words of Atty. Damaso Bangaoet Jr. who is known as the Father of Panangbenga the first time I interviewed him about the birth and rise of the popular festival that put Baguio City back in the map after being devastated by killer quake 22 years ago.

I STOPPED watching Panagbenga years ago. And this coming week I might not watch again. Don’t get me wrong, I love flowers and sure do appreciate the art and effort put on the dancing, and not to mention the food.

WE ARE living at a time when many of our children do not believe there is such thing as consequences to their actions. Clearly, the lack of personal responsibility is very evident in a lot of ways some children nowadays conduct themselves. Adults have a responsibility to reverse this trend….

PART of the annual celebration of the Panagbenga and probably likewise one of the most awaited event is the Session Road in Bloom. for this year, Session Road was closed last February 27 and will last until March 4, 2012, in line with the formal closing of the Panagbenga Festival.

IT WAS only two weeks ago that I was blabbering about the joys of commute with my daughter Gelai, when we took the bus to Manila to visit our relatives in Antipolo. I did not have a change of heart that easily, and I still do look forward to long commute whether through public or private…

A MONTH from now, the 9th edition of the Asia-Oceania Epilepsy Congress (AOEC) will be held. this installment will be hosted by our country at our nation’s capital. It is in this same congress when it was held in Nagano, Japan nearly a decade ago that I started becoming more active in the lives…

“IF EVER our situation is going to be improved, no novel will do it and no poetry nor story. It will be done by scientists, by technology, maybe by some good politicians. Literature stirs the mind but does not direct it.” thus wrote Isaac Singer in his essay Literature is the Memory of Humanity…

HUMANKIND since time immemorial had the penchant for risk. from the time cavemen began ganging up on beasts to serve as food for the table, man gambled everything there is to gamble under the sun. It comes as no surprise then that right at this very moment, wheels are turning to fully implement…

THE weekend parades have ended!

You hear this and that. some express their delight. Others are ho-hum.

“AKO na naman ang magiisip,” you raise your voice out of nowhere. He stops walking while you continue a few steps more. He looks at you, puzzled. you stop and look back at him, annoyed. “Ako na naman ang magiisip kung saan tayo kakain. Ako na naman ang magiisip kung saan ang ganito, kung anong…

I GOT this reminder from Katedral Baguio early morning of Wednesday last week that had me thinking about my Christian faith as an indigenous person (IP) while visiting the pine forest hereabouts.

Beginning with the Spaniards, the spread of Christianity in the Cordillera may have started…

REPUBLIC Act no. 9485, or the Anti-Red Tape Act, was enacted to improve efficiency in the delivery of government service to the public by reducing bureaucratic red tape and preventing graft and corruption. The signing into law of the Anti-Red Tape Act in 2007 confirms the government’s effort to…

RAISE your hand if you want to join the bandwagon of pedestrians who get rankled at this particular lane right before the overpass at Tiong San, Harrison (not to mention other areas where inefficient traffic rules are unbridled). The installation of traffic lights is suppose to pave the way for…