December 30, 2012

Healers

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THE nursing profession was one I never actually considered when I was mulling back then what career path to take.  After all, I’d always...

Courage

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I WAS on my way to the sports clinic at the Ateneo de Manila University for my regular physical therapy on my pinched shoulder (rotator cuff...

Travel Bites: Chillin' in Tagaytay

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TAGAYTAY City in Cavite has always been a sentimental favorite for short weekend jaunts for many Metro Manilans, but the simple pleasures th...

Gone blind

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SOMETIME in the late 90s, my mother, for a week, complained about her itchy eyes. She said it was so severe she wanted to scratch her eyebal...

What drives Jun Abaya?

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(Transportation and Communications Sec. Jun Abaya with his wife, Dr. Ria Abesamis-Abaya.) IT probably isn’t easy to be named after a rev...

Travel Bites: Captivating Capiz

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SEAFOOD capital of the Philippines. Aswang capital of the world. Now who can beat Capiz?  Okay, that bit about the aswang, a mythical Phil...

Travel Bites - Palawan: Tropical paradise

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WITH its diverse ecosystem that largely remains unspoiled to this day, the province of Palawan has been dubbed as “The Last Frontier.”  I...

Travel Bites: Divine Davao

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DAVAO CITY today is hardly recognizable from the days when it was just a sleepy one-note town with a lone hotel and a central shopping cente...
December 29, 2012

Travel Bites: Long live the 'Queen'!

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Magellan's Cross was supposed to have been planted by the Portugese upon their arrival in Cebu in 1521. The real cross is said to be...