IRONING my clothes in the sala right in full view of the television that my housemate’s grandson was watching I was half-listening to this story about caterpillars, one of whom was writing instead of just eating like the rest of his siblings.The story goes that just when the caterpillars, who have by ...
IT was place-spotter Ian who first called my attention to it and this was reinforced by a series of advertisements and a Chillout feature as well of the same place. It was time to go.The place, Chicco de Caffe, a posh coffeeshop along Roxas Avenue corner Padre Faura (yes, ...
YOU woke up in your bed in Davao City at the start of the week, bundled down to sleep in a hotel bed in General Santos City the next day, and then tried to make friends with a really hard mattress in a new Cebu hotel the next night.In between ...
I TOOK a quick trip to Gensan two weeks back to tackle some work (I'm zipping by again soon) and got to acquaint myself with the little that I can from that very, very short trip; like Mang Gorio Bahay Kainan.Mang Gorio epitomizes the slow but steady boom of ...
WHY can't he just wake up one day and just be happy," a friend whined over a common friend who has so many angst, you can hardly get through to him without stepping on someone whom he doesn't want to talk to.But yes, sometimes, happiness is just about being happy. ...
YUP. You read it right, but that's going ahead of the story.Food-spotter Ian texted me about this Indian food buffet. He said it's in a function room of Khash Persian Kebab along Quimpo Boulevard in Matina (beside Chakri Massage). The place is run by ...
THE extent of the Filipino's forebearance awes me. Every night, television news is never complete without one other report on corruption by one other high-ranking official or the most oft-mentioned non-official, the First Gentleman. Corruption news has become embedded into the early evening and late night news, TV news producers should now ...