         About 15 years ago, the Philippine Government requested the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to prepare a plan to convert the DZ Romualdez Airport in Tacloban City into an international one. Japanese experts, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, completed a development plan for the airport.  Unfortunately, the plan remained a plan. Not much was known about it, until a few years ago when the project was revived, and funding started to flow. 

Ready for Take Off ... Almost

When was the last time your childhood or high school friends got together?

Reunions

In my last column, I tried to demonstrate the philosophical and scientific grounds or possibility for us, our life and universe, to be in a simulation.

Simulation, consciousness and free will

While NGCP is being hit for alleged poor performance and Chinese investment, President Marcos is rethinking suggestions to revoke its franchise.

Since the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has, in recent months, been raising its alert systems too frequently about inadequate power supply, it is now at the center of a firing line from legislators and Marcos administration energy officials who are threatening it with franchise revocation due to poor performance.


NGCP in hot seat

AT A time when the national government badly needs revenues to cover the multifarious expenses directly related to governance, any addition to the national coffers coming from a government owned or controlled corporation is very much welcome.

Windfall from the sweepstakes

When you have whisked past the age of 60, some retirees say there is no better way to relish your remaining days but to look back. Are they serious? I jump to the music of Lady Gaga and chuckle while navigating with my iPad, so certainly I am not ready to gaze languidly at the sunset as yet.

The Days of Kites and Komiks

Who doesn’t remember the highly acclaimed 1999 blockbuster movie, The Matrix?  The movie depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, called the Matrix, which intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source. Computer programmer Thomas Anderson (played by actor Keanu Reeves), under hacker alias Neo, uncovers the truth and he is drawn into a rebellion against the machines.

Are we, our life and universe simulated?

PBBM: Ka Mon, what is this I hear that by 2045, it will be another century of oppression against the poor mostly farmers should the Department of Agriculture not do anything to correct its policies and programs to extricate majority of our people from poverty.

BBM asks farmer about 2045 as another century of oppression

As the October 30 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections approach, expect the political scene to heat up with the same intensity as the weather’s heat index.

Politics starts heating up

Breaking news: Land Transportation Office's newly-minted big boss, Atty. Jose Art Tugade, resigns saying he is giving  Secretary Jaime Bautista of the Department of Transportation freehand to choose who he can easily work with.

Secret Weapon Backfires; GMA Down

I AM BACK: Atty Buenaventura Go-Soco Jr. Column

Grin or Grind

CHIMERIC CONVERSATION

I AM BACK

Third Zone

Inspired & Blessed

Bare Truth

Electricity

(Un)Common Sense

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