2008 September 17 | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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Mindanao becoming dumpsite of RP’s “bad cops”

It was a routine surf for news from places where I used to live. The order is always from the latest city, then backwards. So it was from Davao, then Quezon City-Antipolo, Iloilo, and then Cagayan de Oro. But I was stuck in cyber Iloilo, particularly at Sun Star Iloilo’s website. The headline reads ...

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Corruption inside bus No. 2075

Inside the crowded air-conditioned bus from Davao, the faces of the passengers looked weary and their eyes looked tired. At least 15 new passengers embarked from the busy, old Valencia City terminal.  For a moment the vehicle looked like a wet public market, and then sounded like one. The passengers settled in the ...

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prozac party

I just got back from a reading which should have been sponsored by Prozac or Remeron. It was so gloomy and dreadful. A tribute for writer David Foster Wallace who committed suicide recently. It got me thinking. Shouldn't a tribute be a celebration of one's achievement? Foster flouted a lot of writing ...