Topic: cyberbuddy

OPINYON: Hoy! Bata batuta, Kriminal ka ba?

OPINYON: Hoy! Bata batuta, Kriminal ka ba?

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jan 26 06:37 PM

Sa buong kamundohan, ang karapatang gulang (age of majority or adulthood) ay 18. Ang igiit na may karapatang gulang na ang batang 12 lang ang edad ay pawang kahibangan. Read more »

OPINION: The Gullibles’ Travails

OPINION: The Gullibles’ Travails

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jan 20 03:23 AM

From Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," a classic ‘satire of human folly,’ we take a punster’s license and attempt to compose a critique on the serial contemporary political and moral quagmire from which we, as a nation, are obviously still unable to extricate. Read more »

Disaster response: Silver lining and a grim remembering

Disaster response: Silver lining and a grim remembering

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jan 12 12:21 PM

Calbayog folks, in diaspora around the globe, and more so, those back home, ought to take pride in the spontaneous display of caring, sharing, optimism and positivity in the Usman relief effectively launched at home. Exemplary voluntarism in effective display. Read more »

OPINION: That survey -- disconnect and doubt

OPINION: That survey -- disconnect and doubt

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jan 05 01:21 AM

There are lingering unresolved doubts from 2018 that inevitably carried over to the New Year. One that came to mind rather prominently is the first bone I would like to pick on as 2019 begins to roll along: the Presidential performance satisfaction survey. Read more »

Treasured Manila memories in Rotogravure

Treasured Manila memories in Rotogravure

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 21 09:34 PM

JOHNSON CITY, Texas -- A very rare collection of Manila’s premier weekend magazine, the Sunday Tribune, from 1937 through to early 1941, is now in my custody destined for its permanent home, the Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) of the Ayala Museum. Read more »

OPINION: A ‘nostalgia walk’ through old Manila

OPINION: A ‘nostalgia walk’ through old Manila

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Nov 24 08:13 AM

My first job was in Binondo. Clerk/messenger with the Rapid Customs Brokerage Company, at the corner of Dasmariñas and Rosario streets. That was in 1953-1954 when the minimum wage was 4 pesos a day.  Never did my monthly income reach a theoretical Ph 120 pesos a month.  Read more »

OPINYON: Kuro-kuro sa mga piling pangyayari

OPINYON: Kuro-kuro sa mga piling pangyayari

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Nov 02 12:38 AM

Ang dati-rating undas ay naging Halloween! Noong aking kabataan, “todos los santos” at “dia de los muertos” (araw ng mga santo at kaluluwa ng yumao) ang tawag sa nakabihasnang lumipas. Na-ngangaluluwa, wika nga. Read more »

OPINION: Good news from cyberspace...for the good guys

OPINION: Good news from cyberspace...for the good guys

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Oct 26 05:53 PM

The bad guys are, of course, the mendacious and the mercenary. They are who make up the ‘trolletariat’ reputedly in the payroll of that evil empire by the stinky river cutting across our chaotic metropolis. Read more »

America, Spain and the Philippine Census of 1903

America, Spain and the Philippine Census of 1903

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Sep 22 05:47 PM

The very first such election for the Philippine Assembly was held on July 30, 1907 to fill  80 seats. The Philippine democratic project had commenced with honorable men. Soon after, the zarzuela of Philippine politics has never been wanting for amusement.  Read more »

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