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After you, Dad

Malia Gomez, Jose Gomez, Tomas "Mitch" Gomez IV and Karen Gomez-Dumpit.
Updated as of Jan 19 12:15 PM

This is the story of how we finished Dad’s Camino as we brought him to our Father’s house in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain. Read more »

Travel notes: Portomarin, Spain

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 24 03:39 AM

Today’s town of Portomarin in Galicia, Spain is in reality only a 50- plus-years-old replacement community for an ancient river town. Read more »

Travel notes: Sarria, Galicia, Spain

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jul 19 12:57 AM

Sarria is a quaint little town that has existed since medieval times, now with a population of 13700. It belongs to the province of Lugo in the ‘autonomous region’ (a federal state) of Galicia, Spain. Read more »

My pilgrimage: Santiago de Compostela

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 10 02:37 AM

I arrive at Santiago de Compostela on the Feast Day of St. James, July 25, a Sunday. My pilgrimage ends on a special day because every time July 25th falls on a Sunday, the Vatican regards such year as Holy or Jubilee. 2021 is therefore a Holy Year. Read more »

A Marcos myth-making trivia

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 02 10:26 PM

Did the illustrious weekly magazine "Bannawag" publish 4 articles of Ferdinand Marcos' exploits in Bataan in February 1949?  Read more »

Walking towards our Christian roots

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jun 26 03:02 AM

I am incurably romantic. I will perform the ritual of fortitude. I will do the “Camino Santiago”.  Read more »

That 'First Mass' in Philippines in proper context

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jun 19 02:59 AM

Homonhon before Limasawa. Palm Sunday before Easter Sunday. The only “First Mass” was in Homonhon on Palm Sunday, March 24, 1521.  Read more »

Taming tempers over the Rescission Act of 1946

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jun 12 04:31 AM

How much did Filipino chicanery contribute to the passage of the Rescission Act of 1946?  Read more »

Si Telesforo Trinidad at ang Medalya ng Karangalan

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jun 05 03:13 AM

Kung sana’y maisasakatuparan ang kahilingan ng nagraramihang mga Pinoy sa America, ang isang pangdigmaang barko ng US Navy ay ipapangalan sa ala-ala ng isang kababayan natin. Fireman 2nd Cl. Telesforo Trinidad, isang marino. Read more »

From ghost story to urban legend: Authenticating 'The Lady in White of Balete Drive'

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of May 27 09:28 PM

Talked about for many decades, she has remained nameless. Perhaps such prolonged anonymity has contributed much to the alluring mystique. Until today.   Read more »

Malapit na nga bang makulong si Trump?

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of May 21 05:52 PM

Bagama’t alam ng buong mundo na si dating Pangulong Donald J. Trump ay nilampaso noong nakaraang halalan sa Estados Unidos, imbes na manahimik, tuloy pa rin ang kanyang panggugulo sa lipunang Americano.  Read more »

Congressional complicity is the country’s ultimate culprit

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 15 05:12 AM

The confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic visited upon the Philippines, coming as it has done, at the very juncture of cyberspace interconnectivity introducing impositions and new practices into our society, have created a reality that teems with beneficent opportunities. That we must adapt is inevitable. Read more »

California's Pinoy Attorney General — Rob Bonta

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 30 02:08 AM

After Vice President Kamala Harris, Rob Bonta is only the second Asian-American to hold the post of California’s Attorney-General.  Read more »

The Filipino in the US Navy

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 23 11:51 PM

The hoped for reality is that a USS Telesforo Trinidad, smartly cruising through international waters in the service of world peace, shall have become the collective symbol of the Filipino presence in the US Navy.  Read more »

Ship-naming campaign for Pinoy hero launched

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Apr 23 10:51 PM

The campaign to name a US Navy Warship after Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad, recipient of America’s highest and most prestigious award for valor, has been launched.  Read more »

The heroism of Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 09 12:02 AM

Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad holds the distinction of being the first and only Asian-American/Filipino in the US Navy to have been conferred America’s highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor. There is now a campaign for the US Navy to name a combatant ship in his honor. Read more »

US Navy: Anchor of US-Philippines relations

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 31 10:40 PM

The story of the mightiest naval force on earth may not be complete without, in the least, acknowledging its historical Filipino content. Read more »

US anti-Asian racism takes center stage—again

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 26 10:06 PM

Do I see tolerance and pacifist patience finally giving way to activism and assertiveness? Let us hope so. That may be the only way we can break the cycle. Fight back and stem the tide of hate-enabling racism.  Read more »

Calbayog in painful bereavement. Again!

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 10 11:24 PM

Another assassination! “My Calbayog, what has happened to you?”  Read more »

The big lie that elected Marcos president

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 05 12:40 AM

Over time, “For Every Tear a Victory” has been unmasked as a self-adulating autobiography masquerading as biography. For campaign propaganda purposes, then presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos commissioned this writing, definitively ‘restrospective myth-making,’ founded upon fraudulent claims of dramatic heroism.  Read more »