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POLL AID FATIGUE

Sonny Pulgar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:36:15 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – There are less business contributors in the upcoming elections than the last presidential race. Businessmen are also less keen in donating to multiple candidates. These are findings based on the Social Weather Stations (SWS) 2009 Surveys of Enterprises in Corruption presented at the Asian Institute of Management, Friday. “There are fewer business contributors now [...]

NOTHING NOBLE IN QUEZON DIVISION

Sonny Pulgar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:04:16 +0000

We conducted our press conference on February 15, 2010 at Fresh Aire Hotel at 2:00 p.m. with former Governor Eduardo T. Rodriguez and former QUEZELCO Director Popoy Nanadiego and this writer were in attendance. It was moderated by Mr. Gemi Formaran of the Governor’s Office. The press conference was well-attended by most of the media practitioners [...]

THE SENATE’S TIPPING POINT

Sonny Pulgar — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:20:13 +0000

Johnny Enrile’s call to conscience to his colleagues in the disposition of a committee report recommending censure on Manny Villar on the latter’s accounting treatment of the C-5 funding is a tipping point on the Senate’s perception on who shall be our next President. When the committee report was first rotated, it got the go signal [...]

TIP OF THE BONDOC (PENINSULA)

Sonny Pulgar — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:40:42 +0000

Just reeling off from the aftermath of two destructive typhoons before the year ended, we were into a pleasant surprise to find out that our good congressman from the 3rd district of Quezon, also known as the Bondoc Peninsula, foot the Big Apple’s Le Cirque bill of the President and company. It amounted to less [...]

IT COULD BE NOYNOY BY A MILE

Sonny Pulgar — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:02:33 +0000

How do we elect Presidents? We have so far elected a number of presidents from 1935 to 2004. What then is an outstanding trait of a candidate that makes us gravitate to him and topping this off by installing him as our leader? There seems to be a common thread among the elected presidents we had [...]

IT’S THE DYNASTIES, STUPID!

Sonny Pulgar — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:26:05 +0000

The consequent condemnations of the 57 deaths were furious and unforgiving. Even the government’s reaction was swift in its objective of corralling all at once the perpetrators to satisfy public outcry. There has to be some catharsis in the massacre most foul. By declaring state of emergency over Maguindanao that ripened into full-blown martial rule in [...]

LA PAMPANGUENA

Sonny Pulgar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:49:29 +0000

Sedated, and before he lapsed into induced coma, Ferdinand Marcos ordered the Sikorsky pilot to bring him to Paoay. His genius told him that with him in his hometown he is assured of an iron vault fortification. The vaunted Ilocano allegiance comes into play and the dictator can buy his time. With him ensconced in the [...]

stories in my head, part three

Sonny Pulgar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:40:24 +0000

Stone de Noche’s story When I was a kid, my playmate Edo Boy baptized every cop on the block in the small town of Quezon. There’s that old Batangueno Tata Kariong Supot whose service de sabog was never used the whole time the cop was in employment. Then there’s that Sergeant Saripang Duling who never looked [...]

stories in my head, part two

Sonny Pulgar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:38:52 +0000

Ernie’s story Ernie de Villa has a moniker, Bahi. Bahi is a kind of wood descriptive of its solidity approximating marble. Even a coconut tree when it is 100 years old can turn into a bahi. We in Quezon call it Kamagong. The proud Mabolo tree is a good source of Kamagong. Furniture made from Kamagong [...]

stories in my head, part one

Sonny Pulgar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:36:46 +0000

One distant relation told me that you’re getting old if the obituaries are filled with your friends or names of the familiar. Once his preferred page was the Sports section of a broadsheet, where victories are bannered, now he peeps first at the Obit, where defeats are confirmed (the Christians invented the afterlife), and feign [...]