OR SAID OTHERWISE, is it not politics is a chess game?
In the din of the political turbulence, I prefer to go into a lighter topic, the game of chess which also depicts the game of life. And that of politics.
What made me think of writing about chess was after I got a text from a […]

I HAD AN invitation to two affairs this afternoon, talk to UNO-R journalism students and a poetry reading at La Salle.
I got the UNO-R invitation ahead last week and accepted it. The La Salle invitation came in only Monday and I can’t make it.

Negros Occidental (in English: West Negros) has now three universities: UNO-R, La Salle, and West Negros. We must rejoice.
The biggest historic moment of a community is its strides in improving education. The province and city must celebrate, not just the school.

SPEAKING DURING the 22nd anniversary of the Edsa Revolution last Friday at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani, former President Fidel Ramos said, “The continuing greed, apathy, and corruption we brought down during those years are once again making themselves felt.”

OUR CAPACITY for not getting angry can be a virtue. But it can also be a vice. Corruption has continued and has become worse because our people did not know how to get angry with corruption and corrupt officials.
They would rather enjoy laughter, even if they are hit.

A FILIPINO is basically honest.
I am proud and happy I cannot remember having been cheated and the cheater getting away with it. Of course, I have not been involved in big business transactions.

CHEERS TO President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Because of pressure from the public, she suspended the 11 foreign aided projects.

THIS IS A SERIOUS PIECE. So, let me start it with a little humor. This came from a friend, Julian Chua and about how the word Congressman came about. “In the animal kingdom, a group of lions is called a pride. A group of wolves is a pack. A group of sheep is a herd. […]

AN ARDENT reader of classical Greek mythology called up and said, ours is a curse of Sisyphus, not only that of Prometheus. Sisyphus, founder and king of Corinth , symbolizes a corrupt official, punished by the gods for his “corruption, avarice and fraudulent dealing.”

IN MYTHOLOGY, Greek demi-god Prometheus, son of Titan, and brother of Atlas, stole fire from heaven and brought it down to earth benefiting the whole human race.
For this, super-god Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock in a mountain and everyday an eagle came to feed on his liver but which was restored […]