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Brrr! Kumot na pang-balabal

Brrr! Kumot na pang-balabal

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Nov 15 05:42 PM

Mexico has the Serape and its later incarnation, the Poncho. Both are really kumot, but not meant for bedtime but for streetwear.  Read more »

OPINION: What’s with Pacquiao, anyway?

OPINION: What’s with Pacquiao, anyway?

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Oct 25 03:44 AM

It would be quite a challenge for President-wannabe Pacquiao’s handlers to repackage him precisely overcoming known and existing deficits: intellectual deficiency, tax delinquency and unrivalled absences from work as a Senator. Read more »

'First Mass' in Limasawa: Fact or opinion?

'First Mass' in Limasawa: Fact or opinion?

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 24 06:58 AM

That “First Mass” celebrated on Philippine soil was neither in Agusan nor in Limasawa, Southern Leyte. It was in Homonhon, a barangay in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Read more »

August 10, 500 years ago: Pigafetta and an unresolved issue

August 10, 500 years ago: Pigafetta and an unresolved issue

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 17 10:34 AM

As the country prepares for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the first Europeans and the introduction of Christianity, the better way to participate and celebrate in this historic observation, is naturally, to know of and to understand more of Pigafetta. Read more »

OPINION: America in shock, in mourning…again

OPINION: America in shock, in mourning…again

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 09 06:30 AM

There now appears what seems to be a conclusive consensus that sensible gun laws will only dawn upon the American scene when Trump is no longer President, and when both the House and the Senate are no longer under the clutches of the National Rifle Association. Read more »

OPINION: The Philippines circa 1920s, part 2

OPINION: The Philippines circa 1920s, part 2

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 20 07:04 AM

“The Isles of Fear’s” exposé and indictment also encompassed the tenure of Governor General Francis Burton Harrison. Ironically, from available history as we know it, Filipinos still rank F.B. Harrison highest in popularity among the list of American proconsuls assigned to minister to the Islands’ well-being. Read more »

The Philippines circa 1920s

The Philippines circa 1920s

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 13 02:54 AM

A reading of “The Isles of Fear” exemplifies the value of reaching out to a past,  as  a learning moment and still as an indispensable  guiding element in resolving  our still uncorrected infirmities in governance. Read more »

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