Manila is beau­ti­ful. Believe it or not. I went on the tour of Car­los Cel­dran and it made me real­ize how impor­tant it is for us Fil­ipinos to have an under­stand­ing of the glory days our past so we know what we were capa­ble of, so that we know what we can be capa­ble of becoming.

This is partly a nos­tal­gia trip. and partly an indict­ment of the things we have done as a coun­try and as a peo­ple over the past fifty years. I hope we are shamed enough to do some­thing about it. We have the capac­ity and the poten­tial to be great once again.

I read this the other day and felt that it could very well be the best thing writ­ten on the flood that plagued the Metro. I like it because it does not jus­tify nor spir­i­tu­al­ize any­thing about it; while at the same time, it keeps its eye on the God who suf­fers with us in all these calamities.

It’s by Fr. Jett Vil­larin, Pres­i­dent of my alma mater, Xavier Uni­ver­sity (where I went to for high school).

This one I got from the Busi­ness Mir­ror. My work con­stantly reit­er­ates how there are really no such things as acci­dents. “Acci­dents”, as we know them, are really due to many man-made fac­tors: lack of train­ing, a lack of sys­tems, or pro­ce­dures to fol­low, and/or plain old stu­pid­ity. This is one of those things. 32 years ago, there was a study that showed how Marik­ina is unsuit­able for development.

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I love these songs. And I think they are as time­less as any song in the world. If Frank Sina­tra immor­tal­ized My Way, I think we have our own list of immor­tal orig­i­nal fil­ipino music.

This one is from a Daily Tri­bune arti­cle by Armida Siguion-Reyna. Love the JPE anec­dote of his first ele­va­tor ride!