Some government and private employees may be loath to admit it to the same levels as a majority of students at school, but it is true that many people look forward to the year’s Holidays. These are the days when classes are cancelled and no work is scheduled; that is something to like, right? Well,…

The 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang will be having its opening ceremony this coming Saturday, and from the early part of this week basketball enthusiasts around the country were feeling the frustration of yet another pipe dream. Just how difficult could it be to have NBA player Jordan Clarkson, a Philippine passport-holder, to…

For as long as the Philippines has been aware of the half-Filipino NBA player (currently with the Cleveland Cavaliers) Jordan Clarkson, the country,  particularly its sports committees, has dreamed of incorporating the superstar on some iteration of the national men’s basketball team, aka Gilas Pilipinas. Whenever a major international basketball comes up, Clarkson’s name tends…

One of the most famous and false superstitions about natural phenomenon in nature concerns lightning supposedly never striking the same place twice. So many fatalities have been chalked up throughout the years due to this mistaken notion. The same principle applies to earthquakes, in the form of aftershocks at the same spot following a main…

First let us take a little history lesson. The Philippine-American War that followed over three centuries of colonial rule began to wind down in the early 20th Century with the March 1901 capture of the first President, Emilio Aguinaldo. But armed resistance continued against American occupation. In September of that year an ambush was launched…

To the generations-spanning fandom of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), there remains one team perhaps that is always held as the epitome of the highly-skilled and utterly determined underdogs who will always wind the game. We are talking of course, of Barangay Ginebra, the PBA team made famous by iconic players like Robert Jaworski, and…

One of the problems seen by public officials nowadays is the sheer number of government-issued identification that one person must pick up from a variety of agencies for the purposes of documentation. One of the proposals to streamline government identification for persons has been a “national ID” system combining information from various agencies into one.…