Have you ever wondered where our family names came from?

How We Got Our Surnames

Ever notice how a true, heartfelt apology seems to be a rare thing these days?

The Lost Art Of Apologizing

In today's world, the choices we make in elections reflect our values and beliefs. If voters don’t change their mindset, they’ll continue to elect politicians who mirror their own shortcomings. This is important because there’s a saying: "You attract what you are." If we want to see real change, we need to shift from thinking, "What can I get from this?" to "What can I give?"

The Need for Change of Voter Behavior

     Last week's column deserves a second helping. I talked about the other side of many big ticket, multi-billion peso projects. For a region that has seldom experienced the simultaneous implementation of major projects that cost several billion pesos  each, this is a new experience.  The residents are amazed at the rash of projects suddenly under implementation. But the problem, as I mentioned, in previous issues is the interconnection among them in addition to their inherent weaknesses. 

More on the Other Side and its Consequences

On November 18, 2016, then President Rodrigo Roa Duterte deceitfully allowed the Marcoses to bury the body of their dictator-patriarch Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Marcos Not A Hero

On November 19, the world focuses on a subject that often goes unnoticed: toilets. This date marks the annual United Nations World Toilet Day, an event officially observed for the past decade.

Toilets: A Place for Peace

With the past weeks’ House Quad Committee hearings, the people saw how weak or tentative or intelligent and relevant questions were raised by the so-called “Representatives of the People” in confronting the civilian Rodrigo Roa Duterte. The co-chairmen looked like they were so conscious about the former president’s brutal handling of the presidency that they showed a bit of nervousness as they tried to explain the rules of engagement by all concerned. They appeared all along that they had to be so respectful that they made sure to call the civilian RR Duterte “Mr. President.”

Quad Com vs RR Duterte

Everyone knows how difficult it is for college graduates to land corporate jobs because of either a mismatch in their acquired knowledge and the skills required by the companies or because of the preference of certain companies for only a few graduates of their select universities to choose from.

Luring students to technical vocation

A few days ago, I was walking along the United area in San Pedro City in the early evening rush hour when, out of nowhere, a man sitting on a motorcycle and wearing the uniform of a well-known ride-hailing app called me out.

Traffic has spilled over to Laguna

The decline of the Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEI) from November 6 to November 14—from 7,245.92 to 6,559.27—occurred in seven consecutive days.  This, to me, is alarming, as such decline is seldom felt in a supposedly robust economy as the Philippines’.  Another such plunge that happened last April 2 to April 16  was not so concerning as this was followed by a slight recovery.

Scaling up foreign investments

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