2022-04-12 06:30
On a recent late afternoon road trip back to Lianga, I made a quick food stop at a 7-Eleven store still quite a distance from my hometown. Near the cashier’s counter was a promin… Read More
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2016-05-05 10:15
I was looking through the almost 400 posts I have written for this blog and I was suddenly struck by the sudden realization that a few of them still are still strikingly relevant today espec… Read More
2015-02-28 14:47
One early morning during the last week of January this year, a farmer intent only on a leisurely inspection tour of a parcel of coconut land perched on a hill behind the village church in B… Read More
2015-01-24 01:59
Every right thinking resident of Mindanao knew when the electric power crisis in the island first made itself felt in 2010 (see blog posts here and here) that it was a serious problem t… Read More
2015-01-24 01:59
It is customary for the majority of Filipinos who are Catholics to bring with them coconut palm leaves and fronds to church today in celebration of Palm Sunday which itself commemo… Read More
2015-01-24 01:58
The devious double-talk and evasive gibberish with which many political candidates running in the May 13, 2013 general elections try to escape or sidestep the hot and controv… Read More
2015-01-24 01:58
I have to say this. If those running for public office in the May 2013 general elections would put the same degree of effort, creativity and ingenuity into the creation of their campai… Read More
2015-01-24 01:56
Where oh where should the new Lianga police station building be located? This question is at the heart of a a minor storm of controversy that has placed this town's current town offici… Read More
2015-01-24 01:56
The so called "ambush" attack last April 20 on a vehicle convoy in Barangay Binakalan, Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental by New People's Army rebels which resulted in the wounding of Mayor Ru… Read More
2015-01-24 01:55
In just a couple of days it will be election day and as that fateful day draws near, the question of who to vote for is uppermost in the minds of most Filipinos particularly those including… Read More
2015-01-24 01:55
May 13 dawned sweltering and sultry and as I, my siblings and our mother together with the rest of our family rushed through the minutiae of the early day in order to to be at the polli… Read More
2015-01-24 01:54
The local slate of municipal candidates under the Liberal Party, as expected, dominated the local elections in Lianga in the May 13 general elections. Mayor Roy Sarmen and Vice-Mayor J… Read More
2015-01-24 01:53
As many here expected, May 13 which was the day Filipinos here in Lianga and all over the Philippines trooped to the polling places to vote for their favored candidates in this year's genera… Read More
2015-01-24 01:42
Surprisingly, I still can clearly picture them to this very day in my mind's eye. Worn, a bit dog-eared, musty smelling yet well cared for. Thin, paper-bound readers based on the… Read More
2015-01-24 01:42
If you are a visitor or tourist planning to visit Surigao del Sur, then it would be fair to assume, if you have done your research or have asked those in the know about the places and locati… Read More
2015-01-24 01:42
As Christians we are taught as an article of faith that the ways of God are often mysterious and far beyond our limited and mortal comprehension, that there are many painful hurtful things a… Read More
2015-01-24 01:41
It used to be that in Lianga a bout with fever unless it was determined to be really a high grade one where one's body temperature rises to at least 39 degrees centigrade or higher, it was c… Read More
2015-01-24 01:41
When Surigao del Sur Governor Johnny Pimentel appointed and swore into office Marie Gene Lala as the newest member of Lianga's municipal council last September 9, he may have been largely mo… Read More
2015-01-24 01:40
Yesterday, the 25th day of September marked the end of the traditional forty day mourning period following the death of Lianga Vice-Mayor Robert "Jun" Lala Jr who passed away last August 17… Read More
2015-01-24 01:39
I spent most of Nov. 9 watching television. I started with CNN and later moved on to the local Filipino channels. All were, as expected, trying to outdo each other in airing the most gruesom… Read More
2015-01-24 01:39
A video of a recent news interview of Rodrigo Duterte, Davao City's maverick mayor, emotionally recounting his impressions of the chaotic situation in typhoon ravaged Tacloban City after he… Read More
2015-01-24 01:38
Seventeen years ago my father died peacefully in his sleep and in the manner he always said he wanted to leave this world - without fuss, without unnecessary pain and without subjectin… Read More
2015-01-24 01:37
I was among the more fortunate to have had the opportunity to sample a sinfully diverse selection from the cornucopia of festive culinary delights traditionally offered by most Filipinos to… Read More
2015-01-24 01:37
It has been reported in the American news media the past week or so that an elementary school in Frisco, Texas in the United States has banned the use of Christmas trees within its premises… Read More
2015-01-24 01:15
Nothing irritates and distresses me more intellectually and emotionally than fellow Filipinos who should be old enough to know better and should be well-informed enough to understand clearly… Read More
2015-01-24 01:15
Like many netizens all over the world, I am not particularly trustful of or comfortable with Google, that global internet presence which, whether we like it or not, insidiously intrudes into… Read More
2015-01-24 01:14
One can suppose with the benefit of hindsight that there must be more than a bit of irony in the progression of events. When Typhoon Ruby (international name, Hagupit) entered the Philippine… Read More
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