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Before there were iPods, iPads, Dx, and what-have-you technologies children these days were so carefully enamored swiping their lazy fingers around, there was kite flying.

Summer times in my youth were always spent outdoors. Back then, the climate had not gone haywire. You could clearly spell the difference between a drizzle and a downpour. Now, you'd go insane trying to estimate the capricious climate. At about 3pm onward, our little barrio turns into a festival of kites of different ...

I grew up with "Once upon a time..." and "They lived happily ever after." In fact, there was one point that I truly believed all stories must end with them. I fancied corsets and ball-gowns, fancy jewelry and crowns (although when growing up, I had started to abhor them). Love life for me was always seen through rose-colored eye-glasses.

One relationship after another proved to me that the Grimm Brothers were the ones who were messing up with my neurons. They have ...

There was a period in the Philippine education system where the mother-tongue-based instruction was used. According to our principal, she remembered having taught using the mother tongue as the medium of instruction for two years.

With the slow yet obtrusive incorporation of the Mother-Tongue-based instruction in the K to 12 system, many parents have shown apprehension. I, myself, have my own set of apprehensions. Foremost among them is the identification of the mother tongue. Mother ...

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

This was what Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States of America, was often quoted saying when a member of his war contracts investigating committee [sic] objects to his strenuous pace. He was well-known as a plain speaker, something that most politicians in our more media-sensitive age lacks.

With the onset of the social media, the third evolving type of media (apart from the print, and ...

Upon the suggestion of my brother to avoid the influx of people who have the luxury to visit the graves of our deceased loved ones on November 1 and 2, I had trudged along today with my family to cemeteries where our deceased loved ones lay.

It is a funny occasion I should say that even when I pass by Calamba Cemetery and Queen City Gardens oftentimes in a year, I only get to visit the graves of my relatives on these days (imagine there are 365 days in a year). Although we visit my ...

I don't exactly remember which Vice Ganda film it was that had a scene where Vice Ganda lugubriously spread ashes (cremated remains of probably a loved one) into the air while the wind ceremoniously blows them away. The camera then pans. And the faces of his companions (those who attended the histrionic "spreading of the ashes") assail us, filled and covered with the strewn ashes.

My father somewhat had an inkling that he will pass away in a matter of months as when his jokes ...

Dear Someone,

What could have happened to you? Was your flight late? Did the bus you were riding meet a road mishap along the way that you had to walk the whole stretch just to get to me?

You probably don't have the slightest idea how I have been awaiting your arrival. The excitement and thrill builds up each time a friend coyly asks, "Aren't you married yet?" Although I just casually shrug off such remarks from outside, I feel something sad inside. One that I ...