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Indelible Fashion
The latest trend among Filipino migrants now: overseas absentee voting.
For some, it is an affirmation of their being Filipino. For many, it is a step towards achieving change.
Remembering Flor
I never was a domestic worker so I never really knew about their pains, struggles and sufferings.
But I need not be. All I had to do is remember Flor.
Hanged to death for a crime she did not commit. And it took then president Fidel Ramos and his ilk a lifetime to take action. Kailangan pang [...]
Starstruck
Last night was almost nothing until I got invited to dinner.
Everything seemed fine until at that moment I was eating porkless fried rice, eggplant and ginko beans. No, the food was not inedible. It was just that it dawned on me: I was actually having this meal with a constellation of goddesses from Philippine showbusiness!
To [...]
Tamiflu
This is Tamiflu, man’s answer to the AH1N1 virus.
While it was given to me for free, it got me drowsy and nauseated.
Living in isolation for three days straight, I had the chance to talk to friends back in Manila. They told me I was lucky to have it. Those with the AH1N1 back home simply [...]
Hypocrite
These pictures bring me back to the first days of Gloria in 2001.
Mong (now congressman and representative of the youth party Kabataan in the Philippines’ Lower House) and I were part of a youth delegation to meet the pudgy woman and talk about the youth agenda with the Philippine government.
Right outside Malacanang, the Philippines’ version [...]