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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:10:20 +0000

  THE same day – same hour – when news leaked that MWSS was penalizing Manila No Water with a R1.13 billion fine, what water we were being giv­en abruptly slowed to a trickle. Overnight, we were back to the service interruption/disruption mode, i.e., little or no water, a guessing game with no schedule to […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:54:34 +0000

  “THE mountain moved.” “I heard a loud noise, like a helicopter approaching.” Those one-liners came not from a novelist’s notes but simple folk who were able to use such graphic language even as they stared into the face of the earthquake. The moving mountain frightened a member of the Aeta family in Castillejos, Zambales, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:20:01 +0000

  WELCOME back, all you folks with lovely weekend cot­tages within a few hours’ drive from Manila, all you blessed with ancestral homes in villages where you sought the pleasures of the countryside! Yet even as you managed to flee the heat of the city, we were celebrating your exit, the empty­ing out of our […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:10:39 +0000

  IS Paris burning? The first TV images of Notre Dame cathedral engulfed in flames made it look as if the whole city was on fire. But then the cathedral is not called Notre Dame (Our Lady) of Paris for no reason. Of the list of 49 titles bestowed by faith and tradition on Mary […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:30:54 +0000

  AT the rate the water is drip­ping out of the faucet like tears, this has to be the worst, cryingest Lenten season of suf­fering. It takes 25 minutes to fill a 5-liter jug. Media track soaring temperatures but declining water levels in Angat and La Mesa go unreported. Short on water, short on electricity, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:40:40 +0000

  THE TV series, “Lucifer,” is so good I cannot recommend it be­cause it is so bad, very bad. A care­ful reviewer wouldn’t dare to judge that it’s for adults only, as adults who are not grounded in theology could be easily seduced by the anti-God thesis of the plot and its char­acters. Lucifer is […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:10:40 +0000

    THE lady who was then secre­tary of Tourism was about to board her tricycle when she gave her parting shot to the reporters, “Forget Boracay. Go tour Malabon instead.” Malabon, tourist destination? Well, yes, according to Wanda Teo. On three wheels, no less. When Kris Aquino featured Malabon’s Calle Sarap of restaurants on […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 06:26:09 +0000

  THERE’S a congressman aspir­ing to be mayor of Quezon City. His goal is to build a sports arena inside Quezon Memorial Circle! What a gross misrepresentation of the hopes and wishes of Quezon City! What makes you think that the mini-forest – already a victim of hundreds of trees felled by the then sitting […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:20:12 +0000

  THAT’S not a typo, it was the nickname we gave President Cory Aquino’s MWSS (or was it Nawasa) general manager. His real name, Luis Sison, gave us reason to call him Dry because those were the years when we were plagued with water shortages and Nawasa (as in “nawasak,” or destroyed) became the most […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:10:39 +0000

  PRESIDENT Duterte was in­specting a new housing proj­ect for soldiers. The first house he saw had two bedrooms. “Two bedrooms, good. You have two wives?” he teased the soldier-owner. It’s no laughing matter that when Kadamay shelter snatchers rushed in to invade long abandoned, never-occupied houses meant for policemen and the military, the President […]