Allow me to get a bit candid here in my column space: I am more fearful than hopeful for our country’s future.

Hopes and fears

I recently read an article in OpinYon 8 about a Christmas tree display in Capoocan, Leyte that immediately earned the ridicule of netizens due to its “minimalist” style.


Christmas, politics and humility

Last week, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano made a bold (and to me, reckless) proposal: to hold snap elections in view of growing public anger over the widespread corruption not only in flood-control projects but, it seems, in the very fabric of government itself.

You want a clean slate? Let the people choose

Banner headline of the Philippine Daily Inquirer for October 23, 2025: "Classroom construction no longer DPWH domain."

LGUs as classroom-builders

Filipinos, it has been pointed out by numerous studies, are one of the heaviest consumers of social media in the world.

Get off your social media comfort zone

Even though Laguna province wasn’t as badly hit by supertyphoon “Uwan” as did other provinces in the Philippines, the storm was strong enough to strike worry and fear among us.

Never ever ‘downplay’ disasters

If you see your friends suddenly disappearing from your social media feed (as in they’re deactivating their accounts or did not post for long periods of time), we often tend to assume the worst.

Disconnecting

The Philippines, experts have warned over and over and over again, is a disaster-prone country.

Why the heck are we still fixated with ‘manghuhulas’?

“When we say ‘I just want a politician who tells me like it is,’ we should specify that that politician should not be a total f***ing monster.”

The thin line between authenticity and a**holery

When I started working at OpinYon’s Pacita office a decade or so ago, a major shopping center smack in the middle of Pacita Complex was then considered as the city’s shopping mecca.

Urban blight

The (Un)Common Sense column by OpinYon News columnist, James Veloso.

(Un)Common Sense

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