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 ...
At 2a.m. the city was asleep. The road was deserted. The early morning breeze engulfed the highway to freezing point.
Manong David, wrapped in his thick coat, was chilling and has stammered when I hailed his motorela cab for home. He agreed to a pakyaw rate of P35, a win-win between his ...
The city council has scheduled to tackle in its session on September 2 the status of the delayed construction of Malaybalay City’s new public market.
Vice Mayor Ignacio W. Zubiri told MindaNews they have invited concerned parties to the session on Tuesday to shed light on the P225 million construction project.
Contractor ...
The government has dissolved its peace panel today, according to Mindanawon Prof. Rudy “Ompong” Rodil, vice chair of the GRP peace panel, in an announcement in a Mindanao e-group, as qouted by MindaNews in this report.
“The era of peace talks is over,” said one of the reactions as qouted in the same ...
Waking up to a broadcaster howling against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front one morning, I was tempted to turn the radio off.
The grain of his voice has pestered me in my space in that corner of the house.
“Maayo ng girahon sila kay gusto man diay nila og Independence!” Gusto pa ...
“Iitsa, tamoka, yataki, tumbi!” ”Iitsa, tamoka,
yataki, tumbi!”
Iitsa, tamoka, yataki, tumbi! (That’s throw, catch, step and stamp!)
I thought for a while it was a line in a Kenyan song I learned from
someplace else, but the words sounded familiar even if it was belted
out in a universal beat.
Waway Saway’s song lingered in my hearing ...
Monologue in front a TV report on the Lanao Norte attack
This is a time to be old,
and a time to be young
a hesitation we cannot flaunt.
In this time of Mindanao
I know I am home,
but I know I am not at home.
Who would want to breath the threats in your life?
Who would want ...
