Category: Lifestyle Columnists
On rising early
I LOVE to rise up early in the morning like at four or at five o’clock. It’s quiet and serene; most people are still asleep. It’s the best time to…
Once upon a time in newspapering
THE fall season always brings something new that will astonish us. Let the leaves fall, leaves leave, fall falls. But perhaps ushering the season comes with the promise of new…
Anna Leah Javier, the reluctant star shines in seclusion
Social analysts hypothesized the movies to be an art form imitating life but in most cases it seems that life’s mortal realities and its evanescent complexities make it the other…
Pasalubongs you might want to take home
Our fellow Filipinos may be enjoying their stay outside the Philippines; but perhaps they get homesick once in a while. If you manage to visit our country, then you might…
A table for one
The operating room could be likened to a theater: cupboards hold tanks of oxygen, refrigerators are filled with bags of blood and a table for one—besides where laid out a…
God and society, religion and politics
“SO what did you talk about?” I asked a Catholic school teacher who came from a whole day of Religious Education conference. “We talked about unity,” she answered. “Unity? What’s…
The agonizing malady of writer’s block
How strange, the demented feeling it gives me. I realized that I have spent agonizing whole days before a pen and a notebook, with nothing better to do but jot…
‘A Night in Vienna’ marks PACCAL’s 22nd Anniversary with glitz & glam
Last Sunday, October 12, 2014, the Pan American Concerned Citizens Action League, Inc. (PACCAL) nailed it again when it pompously celebrated its 22nd founding anniversary with an alluring touch of…
Worse than Ebola
The Ebola crisis in the West African countries of Guinea, where it started in December 2013 and spread in March 2014 to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria, the deadliest ever…
Why should you book through a travel agent?
Traveling is a pleasurable thing to do; but planning a travel? That’s a different story. Browsing the World Wide Web to find the best yet cheapest flight and accommodation fares…
The delicate dance of the publisher and the advertiser
“THAT, if all printers were determined not to print anything, till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed… That I got five schillings by…
On deeply appreciating God’s blessings
“I KNOW how to live in humble circumstance; I know also how to live with abundance. In every circumstance and in all things I have learned the secret of being…
The Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev): Ideas worth supporting
FUNDraising is not a game, not a social commentary or a religious revelation. It is not the breeding ground for the trite or shallow. To say “Enough of fundraisings” is…
Herminio ‘Jun’ Fernandez takes a sizzling leap via a new venture
Sometimes, man, even already at the peak of his career, inevitably stumbles on something new that interests him more than what he’s occupied with or just to embark on an…
Silent heart attack
Many patients with coronary heart disease have no chest pains or other symptoms indicative of ischemia (diminished blood flow and oxygen to the coronary arteries that supply the muscles of…
The frenzy for awards
It is not just the celebrity allure. It is the public, acclaim, the attention, the limelight. It’s a cut above all. Everytime you turn around, someone’s winning an award for…
History relived at Las Casas Filipinas
“Bataan has fallen,” said Carlos P. Romulo. When these words resounded from the radios in 1942, the Filipinos knew that the last standing peninsula fighting against the Japanese colonizers was…
‘La Traviata, the woman gone astray’
OPERA was born in Italy at the end of the 16th century. Some say that opera is a stepchild of the arts—a sort of mongrel offspring to ballet, music, drama—and…
Overlapping social events in so limited time
The recent weekend enthusiastically set the Filipino-American community in a frenetic mode with a hullabaloo of invites and requests stirring the mid-social stratum in a frenzied whirl. The hustle and…
Traveling, how much does it cost?
Whenever we travel, we grow. The places we visit offer opportunities and lessons that make us better persons. Their delicacies and cultures allow us to broaden our perspective; and eventually…
One is a lonely number
LAS VEGAS – On this dry, heated day and hour in September, the whole city is breathing and heaving like a tired beast. On the strip that controlled all the luxurious…
Our collective call and commitment
AS I minister to seminarians, I can’t help but thank God for the generosity of their hearts. They have responded to the call of God to be priests. They’re willing…
Ivy Violan: An evening of her love story
BEING a writer on the frontlines of culture and music, I am faced with the task of writing a piece that will not only tell about a performance, but the…
Tino Aquino Capili reigns in the realm of his ingenuity
Standing tall beyond his actual stature following the recent successful stage production of his latest play, prolific Filipino-American writer-actor-stage director Florentino Aquino Capili couldn’t contain his ecstatic sensitivity by merely…
Dangers of Body Art
What is Body Art? Body Art is a popular fad among adolescents and young adults, which includes tattooing or body part piercing. The tattoos are usually on the chest, arms,…
Rainy season collection
Each season, the fashion collections released by certain brand apparels greatly help people decide on what goes comfortably with the weather. Not in a tropical country like the Philippines, though….
Cancer is not a death sentence
I HAVE no expiration date. And I know more clearly than ever, that each day is a treasure gift to be lived to the fullest—till tomorrow comes. Having cancer invites…
When God’s graces come at different times
HAVE you ever wished that a delightful experience that you had recently should have happened earlier in your life? Well, I had this experience a few days ago. I was…
The passion of teachers
CULVER CITY — There is that saying: “Those who can, do; Those who can’t, teach.” It is insulting. The prestige is still there. Teaching is a very serious pursuit that…
