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Making pag-pag (opens the original)
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There are a number of Tsinoys and Pinoys who practice the act of making “pag-pag.” Every time they attend a funeral, they make sure to stop by a restaurant or a fast-food place, not necessarily to eat but to make pag-pag or shake off spirits or bad luck from the funeral. The idea is to leave the bad spirits instead of bringing them home. Superstition or excuse, I don’t subscribe to staying out even later, packing in more calories to ward off some imaginary being. If pag-pag was true, how many pe
Mark the date: Dec. 7, 2026 (opens the original)
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Almost every time someone I know is scheduled for surgery, delivery or is in a medical emergency, chances are family members will soon be making an online appeal for blood. Seeing the fear or sensing the desperation in their appeals always makes me wonder why people have to plead or beg for blood donors. Some run to the Philippine Red Cross which has always been a dependable and reliable source for blood. Ironically, while many appreciate the Philippine Red Cross, most of us don’t appreciate it
Delaying the inevitable (opens the original)
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I recently learned that San Miguel Corp. CEO Ramon S. Ang called for a press briefing with members of the Bulacan media. There, he presented satellite images, video footage, maps and the like. All this in an effort to disprove claims being spread by unknown Facebook accounts in the province that flooding there is caused by the New Manila International Airport (NMIA) project. “Not long after the media attendees’ stories were filed and posted, what followed bore some of the hallmarks of a coordina
Better a servant than a slave (opens the original)
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From the time I co-hosted the TFC program “Kumusta Kabayan” with Cheryl Cosim, up to a season when my wife Karen and I helped a handful of individuals pursue their goals to work overseas, the various stories of Filipinos abroad never fail to grab my attention. Perhaps it is because I too once worked abroad as a manual laborer, unofficial “Sekyu” in a high end residential real estate development, as well as odd jobs as a tree cutter, night janitor, snowplow driver and all around “Go-fer” or Go Fo
Friends of the court but not the defendant? (opens the original)
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The impeachment court invited two retired chief justices and a retired associate justice as amici curiae or “friends of the court” to help determine or share their views on the voting threshold of the ongoing impeachment trial. I honestly found this disturbing on certain points, starting with the controversial statement of one senator who previously suggested that the law should be bent if public interest required. The public was amazed by such an idea that the senator was nicknamed the “Law-Ben
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