So now! Shut it up! Ateeeehhh!!! I cannot get it. This is making me look like a layer. Why is this blog nominated to the Blogger of the Year category of the the First Davao Media Excellence Award? It is for real, ateehhh? You have to learned a lesson. Para di ka pamarisan by [...]
Tag Archive > Davao City
Of Watersheds, Plastics, and Compromises
One can easily fall in love with Davao. But this feeling can many times be fleeting that one can choose to unlove it just as easily. One can adore it today and harbor a feeling of intense aversion tomorrow. One may find it peaceful. Many find it dangerous. It is beautiful to others as [...]
That Cancer-Causing Smoke
One very early morning last year, I chanced upon Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte at the Davao International Airport. I approached him to greet him. But like a jab straight to my gut, what he told me stopped me. He said: “Did you smoke?” Sure my smoking was none of his business. But one thing was [...]
Burqa as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
My former paper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, stirred the pond once again after the public took offense over its photo which was apparently discriminatory against Muslim women. The photo–showing a woman wearing a burqa and shaking the hand of President Benignon Aquino III during an event in Malacañang Palace–read: “Security Risk.” The National Union of [...]
Speaking of Gay Marriages
Not that he wants to spite the church or play the devil that teases away the attention of the faithful away from religious teachings and standards of morality. But if only Rodrigo Duterte has the power, Filipino gays would live happily ever after. Duterte, who is the Vice Mayor of Davao City, tough and macho, [...]
Five Deaths in Five Months
Advocates have recorded five deaths related to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Davao City for 2012. As of today, at least 42 new cases have been recorded. Of the said number, 41 were males who had sex with fellow males. Local government interventions are given to 299 people with HIV-AIDS. Alma [...]
Job Castro: A Child of War
Two years ago on June 19, I met Job Castro. He was 17 years old but he looked even younger, his body very frail and too small for his age. His mother, Luzler, showed me a copy of the birth certificate. He was born November 7, 1992. Surrounded by journalists and some strangers, he silently [...]
The Abuse of Abdul-Khan Balinting Ajid
They raided his house in the outskirts of Sumisip in Basilan and found him preparing dough. He is a local baker. It is his family’s source of bread. It did not help that his two children and his wife were there. The soldiers were to get him down and he was to be taken down–no [...]