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United colors of the OFW
by Kap Maceda Aguila - April 7, 2002 - 12:00am
I was at Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok airport on a Wednesday morning some weeks back, eagerly awaiting my flight back to Manila. I was dog-tired and homesick even only after two nights in the former Crown Colony,...
Grief, forgiveness, Easter and my grandmother
by Kap Maceda Aguila - March 31, 2002 - 12:00am
What if every living soul could be upright and strong? Well, then I do imagine there will be sorrow no more. –Sorrow, Bad Religion Easter is as much about death as it is about life. Of course, the glorious...
See you around, Mommy
by Kap Maceda Aguila - January 27, 2002 - 12:00am
When our family came home in that overcast afternoon of January 10, there was one less among us. We came home to a house eerily silent. It was without the sound of her voice, without her laughter and the distinct...
Thy grand ol’ parents
by Kap Maceda Aguila - September 15, 2001 - 12:00am
Two weeks ago, my grandmother’s left arm suddenly went numb and she nearly dropped a hot bowl of soup she had just ladled from a pot. Looking winded, she leaned back in our dining room chair. I stared, trying...
Thy grand ol’ parents
by Kap Maceda Aguila - September 9, 2001 - 12:00am
Two weeks ago, my grandmother’s left arm suddenly went numb and she nearly dropped a hot bowl of soup she had just ladled from a pot. Looking winded, she leaned back in our dining room chair. I stared, trying...
Farewell to a dentist
by Kap Maceda Aguila - August 5, 2001 - 12:00am
No matter where you are, I could still hear you when you dream. Drown – Smashing Pumpkins A couple of weeks ago, my Cebu-based Lolo Raul (or Oly) Ronquillo, brother-in-law of my own maternal lolo, stretched...
Primetime paranoia
by Kap Maceda Aguila - July 13, 2001 - 12:00am
It’s a scary world out there – one chockful of kidnappers, robbers, rapists, swindlers and arsonists. Just a...
Poor People Power for the rich and powerful
by Kap Maceda Aguila - April 30, 2001 - 12:00am
I weep for Filipinos. I weep not only because we bathe in ignorance, but actually revel in it. We rejoice in our own closed-mindedness, rely on emotions for direction and believe in shoddily-constructed lies –...
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