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Travels with Mom - Part 4
by Sylvia Mayuga - November 29, 2009 - 12:00am
Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid sits in bronze beside the sea in Copenhagen. There, on 8/8/88, Blue Water Dragon year, my sister Cristie married Richard Morisset, driving to church together in a red...
The Virgin in Berlin - Part 3
by Sylvia Mayuga - November 22, 2009 - 12:00am
Just before the Berlin Wall fell in ‘89, I stood entranced at the Pergamon Museum in the East, before dazzling shrines to all manner of divinities once rulers of a vanished ancient world. The most impressive...
And the Wall Came Tumbling Down - Part 2
by Sylvia Mayuga - November 15, 2009 - 2:47pm
 The eighties began in the Philippines with the paper lifting of martial law, on to assassinate a dictator’s rival to the presidency who dared come home from Boston.
Parting the Iron Curtain - Part 1
by Sylvia Mayuga - November 8, 2009 - 12:00am
 Ah, yes. The ‘80s was indeed quite a decade, as global media networks converging around the vanished Berlin Wall now remind us daily. This nostalgic mood climaxes on 11-11-09, Wednesday, the 20th anniversary...
Typhoon Lila
by Sylvia Mayuga - November 2, 2009 - 9:04am
Again this is being handwritten in brownout over Metro Manila, the eye of Typhoon Mirinae a.k.a. Santi rattling roofs, banging doors and windows, turning old trees outside my window into trance dancers bent to their...
Giving God a Hard Time
by Sylvia Mayuga - October 25, 2009 - 12:00am
Once more this space is compelled to give Jojo Soira de Veyra a forum, this time probing root causes of ongoing holistic crisis in our motherland.
Paradigm Shift 2: New Vision in Government
by Sylvia Mayuga - October 18, 2009 - 9:15am
Dr. Delfin Ganapin, Jr. was Undersecretary to the new Secretary Victor Ramos at the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources in the FVR years. Del was a first-batch graduate of the new UPLB Ecology degree program...
In Paradigm Shift 1: A Long Look Back
by Sylvia Mayuga - October 11, 2009 - 8:45am
Tayabas Mountaineers swung on mountaineering ropes in breathtaking relay rescue of riverbank dwellers being swept in a river suddenly swelling.
Diary of Revolution V: Another Strange Column
by Sylvia Mayuga - October 4, 2009 - 12:00am
Don’t be misled. This column starts out with a recall of crisis in the Cultural Center of the Philippines but does not stay there. It moves on in related crisis, more strangeness, before zooming out and in,...
Diary of Revolution IV: A Strange Column
by Sylvia Mayuga - September 27, 2009 - 7:20pm
This is a strange column. To begin with, it delays further exploration of presidential power as a major issue confronting the country and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in new standoff with Arroyo.
Past and Future in the Present
by Sylvia Mayuga - September 21, 2009 - 8:00am
It was inaugurated to controversy in 1969. It almost ended in controversy in 1986. On its ruby anniversary in 2009, the Cultural Center of the Philippines a.k.a. Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas is caught in new...
Inspirer in Chief
by Sylvia Mayuga - September 13, 2009 - 12:00am
That was quite a 9-9-9, touted worldwide by both science and meta-science as a moment crucial to humanity and all Creation.  
Five fruits of the National Arts tree
by Sylvia Mayuga - September 6, 2009 - 12:00am
The tug of war continues between those who want Gloria Arroyo to retract her insertion of Carlo Caparas and Cecile Alvarez into the National Artist status roster, and those who want to defend a President's prerogative...
New Morning for Inang Bayan
by Sylvia Mayuga - August 30, 2009 - 12:00am
The Philippine National Artist Awards controversy made a new media splash this week when the Supreme Court handed down an order in relative speed on the petition filed by a protesting Filipino artist community only...
A rainbow covenant in Baguio
by Sylvia Mayuga - August 23, 2009 - 12:00am
That was quite a welcome after over a decade of absence from a mountain city I consider a second home. Scorching sun from Manila to Tarlac had given way to monsoon season when we hit Pangasinan, the sky turning darker...
Diary of a revolution
by Sylvia Mayuga - August 16, 2009 - 12:00am
Moody rain on Ortigas yesterday gave way to a corridor of sun down Roxas Blvd to the Manila Cathedral today, Ninoy's face on yellow banners snapping in cool breeze, Cory smiling on blue posters under old trees.
Granada, I've Fallen under Your Spell
by Sylvia Mayuga - August 9, 2009 - 2:03pm
Granada, as you may know, is a Tagalog word borrowed from Spanish for that object whose pin you pull to blast a threat to life to kingdom come. Well, that’s how many artists have felt this past month or s...
Our revolutionary president
by Sylvia Mayuga - August 2, 2009 - 12:00am
Still, she left us in the present state of the art of Western medicine, like Susan Fernandez and far too many others. This, however, is not a blame game. Far more rewarding is contemplation of divine timing in the...
In the Buddha's footsteps
by Sylvia Mayuga - July 27, 2009 - 7:30am
Last week the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Fifth Cinemalaya Festival hosted the world premier of the 80-minute documentary Walking the Waking Journey.
The Rainbow Comes Together
by Sylvia Mayuga - July 20, 2009 - 12:00am
Tell me. Do you think Facebook qualifies as meditation, a kind of limbering for a Zen sit?
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