Remembering a Great Filipino

I just heard from the radio going home from work that Raymundo Punongbayan, the former PHIVOCS chief now with the Red Cross, boarded a helicopter this morning to survey relocation sites in Dingalan, Aurora Province but failed to return home. The last I heard, it crashed and there are no survivors at the moment. None [...]

Some comments on the Pacific Plans fiasco

I’ve been following the Pacific Plan fiasco intently, both in the media treatment (which I think is already thinning) and in the claimants’ blogs.

Of course, there are a lot of emotions involved. This is not like the Pepsi 349 case because the claimants here have already invested time, effort and of course, money so [...]

An American Idol forecast

You may not know this but I have followed American Idol since last season. I even “cheat” by checking the website before the end of the telecast. Our cable’s coverage is just Off Satellite and not Live. Hence, it’s just delayed by about 30 minutes or so.
I make this blog forecast completely from my own [...]

Lighter Side…My choirs

I’ve been noticing my blogs have become more serious every entry I make. I think I need a change of pace…
I think it’s time tell you something more about one of my other pursuits…my choirs.
During a previous blog, I have stated that my choirs have kept me same, centered, balanced and basically alive.
Let’s get things [...]

Taking the cause of the oppressed

I had a lot of ideas on what to blog today. I could make a follow-up on my previous day’s blog (particularly the “great” news on the National Power Corporation). I could have made an “appeal” to the greedy. Blogging about the “Seven Deadly Sins” even came to my mind. These may be great blogs [...]

Something to start your week…

Here’s to a good week!
Reports say twenty-five executives from the National Power Corporation (yes, you know, that company that incurred most of our national debt) paid themselves P119M in retirement benefits, THEN REHIRED themselves so they can continue to enjoy their six-figure salaries. The details can be found here.
Fantastic! Having the Filipino people’s cake and [...]

My flute’s giving out!

Ahh, the Armstrong 104n. My current flute that’s about to quit on me after all these years…
I started playing the flute in earnest during my college days. I started with a “no-name” chrome flute that I borrowed from my cousin. My reason to start was pretty lame. I wanted to try out for the ROTC [...]

Start of something great

Of course, I have to sprinkle some personal blogs in my little corner of the internet…
Well I finished my custody case yesterday. By agreement, I now have sole legal custody of my children. And this will be backed up by a court order shortly. In theory, no more guarding Bea at school. No more “red [...]

Something’s bothering me…

Ran into an old batchmate and friend from law school a few days ago. We haven’t seen each other for a long time.
He asked me why I’m not a panelist anymore during thesis defense season in our law school. I told him simply no one’s been calling me to duty.
Then he started telling me why…
It [...]

Gloria Olivae

Picture from Wikipedia (copyright:Reuters)

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum:
Habemus Papam!
Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum,
Dominum Iosephum,
Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ Cardinalem Ratzinger,
qui sibi nomen imposuit Benedicti decimi sexti.

Which translates to: “I announce to you great joy: We have a Pope! The most Eminent and Reverend Lord, the Lord Joseph, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Ratzinger, who takes to himself [...]