Friday - July 30, 2010

 

Losing to thieves on the loose

1. Melay Lapena writes a letter to the person who stole from her about being happy, despite having lost her entire bag last Friday.

 

Eating imported pagpag

1. Dean dela Paz expands on his original post on imported Turkish flour . This time he focuses on its entry as an economic commodity.

 

JPE again

1. Lisandro thinks that nobody should forgive Johnny Enrile. Even in the one moment in 1986 when he seemed to side with the people, Lisandro believes JPE's motives were ultimately self-serving.

 

Not disappointed

1. Ellen writes that unlike others who were underwhelmed by PNoy's first SONA because they were expecting revelations more shocking than those he had leaked while he was still finalizing his speech, she found it just okay.

 

Burgers, bubbly, and blogging

1. Veteran theater, concert, and events director Freddie Santos recently gathered his closest friends and associates for the launching of what he called his "blography," the online, serialized version of what could have been a standard autobiography between two covers.

 

Reunion sa kulimlim

1. Malugod na gawad ang reunion para sa magkakaklase at magkaka-eskuwela noong hayskul. May tatlumpu't tatlong taon nang walang kumustahan ang marami sa kanila. Ilan na kaya sila? Sinusino kaya sa mga naging kaklase mula first hanggang fourth year ang nagsidating?

 

Mindanawans and Muslims - 'SALING PUSA' in PNoy's Governance?

1. Mindanawans merited two lines in the presidential inaugural. Will there be MORE in PNoy's SONA. Will he give a paragraph or two to the peoples of Mindanao?

 

Wang-wang needed for climate action

1. Red writes that if there is one vehicle in the country that deserves blaring sirens, it's the ambulance called climate action.

 

Trailing dirt and coming clean

1. Dean dela Paz examines the role of the former vice president as the housing czar amidst the Smokey Mountain scandal. What questions should he have asked, and what might he now answer for us.

 

In hybrid heaven

1. Butch finds a new gadget that allows him to play with both his analog and digital sides. But he muses: "Now if the Pulse Smartpen people could just invent a version that spits real fountain pen ink from a flexible nib, then I'd truly be in hybrid heaven."

 

Trust equals confidence

1. Ellen blogs that the latest survey of the Social Weather Station should encourage President Benigno Aquino III to be his own man and assert his leadership as influence groups exert pressure on him, some out of a genuine desire to help him and others to push their own agenda.

 

Losing by default

1. Government officials are mistaken if they think that if they don't answer, the reporters won't write the story. Wrong. We will write the story without the government side. Government then loses by default.

 

Some things that matter

1. On funky days, you see deep blue without exuberance. Gray scales, without nuance. Yellows without radiance. But some days, Red writes, you get lucky and by chance you open a few files and flip through images of better days.

 

Unwashing the whitewashed

1. Ellen Tordesillas hopes that there might still be a chance to see the the full Mayuga Report, which former Vice Admiral Mateo Mayuga pledged he would "bring to his grave".

 

Mindanaw Agenda for PNoy Administration

1. Fr. Jun Mercado writes about the Aquino Administration's Mindanao programs, outlined by Sec. Ging Deles as follows: delivery of basic services, good governance, and security sector reform.

 

Rakenrol sa Paghihintay ng Resulta ng Eleksyon 2010

1. Isang gabi habang hinihintay kung sino ang maluluklok sa Palasyo, umalingawngaw ang musika mula sa isang pamilya. Inabot nila ang unang tilaok ng manok sabay sa pag-asam na hindi sana ipagkanuno ng nanalo ang kanyang mga pangako.

 

Loan to grow a business

1. Personal finance blogger Francisco Colayco answers a question from a reader: "Would it be wise to borrow to grow our catering business?"

 

Romulo compels Aquino to defend Arroyo's privileged envoys

1. Ellen says the Union of Foreign Service Officers will bring to court the issue of the extension of the service of political ambassadors appointed by Gloria Arroyo.

 

Standoff at Malacañang's media office

1. Ellen blogs about the standoff over the position of communications director and how it has led to a stand still at the Office of the Press Secretary including the Office of the President's website.

 

No more excuses this time

1. In the second coming of an Aquino, P.Noy will be inheriting stronger institutions and will not be as threatened by the military. That should enable him to get more done.

 

Why I write Philippine history

1. Lisandro, our latest blogger, explains his career choice as a historian is "not simply to tell enjoyable stories from the past, but to look for stories that we, as a society, deliberately suppress".

 

Better late than never

1. Melay Lapena writes about being late after realizing her last blog update was more than a month ago.

 

Peace and Security in Mindanao

1. The issue of Peace and Security in Mindanao is a formidable challenge that the new P-Noy Presidency will face in the coming months and years.

 

Jessie

1. CenterLaw's Harry Roque said the death of Suwaib Upham, one of the gunmen in the November 23 carnage who wanted to be a key witness but was turned away by the government, should bear on the conscience of outgoing Justice Secretary Alberto Agra.

 

A more pressing priority for the new government

1. Ping Galang writes that the incoming administration of President-elect Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino would do well to tag initiatives against the nagging problem of poverty, instead of the budget deficit, as its early top priority.

 

Real estate as a business?

1. Francisco Colayco answers the query of Joyce, wife of an OFW who remits to her $300 or PhP15,000 monthly. Joyce wants to consider buying real estate as an investment. Should she?

 

BSA, the NAA, and the CPMAL

1. Butch Dalisay follows through on his "memo" to President-elect Noynoy last week with regard to his administration's arts and culture policy.

 

The Mindanao Peace Process Revisited

1. Fr. Jun Mercado believes that the changing of the guards is an opportunity to revisit not only the process itself but also the direction of the peace negotiations.

 

A feast of memories

1. Butch Dalisay writes about two new books soon to be launched by the UP Press - UP Diliman: Home and Campus, edited by Narita M. Gonzalez and Gerardo T. Los Baños, and Sundays in Manila by Robert H. Boyer.

 

Our Filipinas

1. Dean de la Paz recreates the events of June 12, 1898 in Kawit, Cavite from archival entries, testimonies of heirs, old photographs of the Aguinaldo flag and even reports of the weather.

 

Manipesto kontra kababuyan sa Kongreso

1. Join ka na, bok. Paanyaya ni Red Constantino. "Sa harap ng talamak na pambababoy sa Kongreso, sama-sama nating itatag sa araw na ito ang kasapiang kontra-kababuyan sa pamahalaan," ani Red.

 

The Aquino Honeymoon

1. Dean de la Paz cites bright economic prospects within Benigno Aquino's first 100 days as president and notes how irresponsible noise at this juncture could negate those at our expense.

 

Notes from a celebration

1. Ping Galang, a former API fellow, writes about the activities held to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the API Fellowships Program last weekend at the Ateneo de Manila University campus in Quezon City.

 

 

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