Noemi Banda-Laguit calls on Pozorrubians

by jv
It did not take much effort to convince Ms Noemi Banda-Laguit to agree to be one of the candidates for Ms Pozorrubio Town Fiesta 2009 because she truly believes that the revenues generated by this popularity contest will indeed be used for the infrastructure needs of her hometown.  
Noemi owns and operates an Adult Residential [...]

Search on for most “Clean and Green Barangay”

by jv
THE seven-man evaluation team  have September 16 to 30 to make a clean sweep of all thirty-four barangays of Pozorrubio as the first step in the contest for the most Clean and Green Barangay for 2008, a distinction which Buneg had held on to since 2005.    
It must be remembered that Buneg Kapitan Wilfrredo [...]

US search for hometown beauty reaps two bets!

by jv
“WE were able to find, not just one, but two candidates from the Balikbayan Community for Ms Pozorrubio Town Fiesta 2009! The two ladies,  Mrs. Vivien Ritualo-Marquez of California and Mrs. Noemi Banda-Laguit of Hawaii, had already given us a definite confirmation of their participation.”
       In her speech this Monday September 15 during the [...]

Beautiful minds!

by H. A. Bautista/jv
Pozorrubio Central ranks 3rd in 2008 National Achievement Test 
If it were a game of brawns and skills, the local team would have scored a whooping touchdown. Make that three whoopers, in truth of fact.
In this year’s National Achievement Test, Batch 2008 of Pozorrubio Central School finished highest among the highest in the [...]

Osmeña Street : then and now

by JingV
Through the march of decades, they stood there – a row of six concrete soldiers, ramrod-straight, five oval lamps on each head. Rain and sun and earthquakes they braved through. And watched did they, mutely and never judgmental, the changing of the guards.
They had been leaned on and pissed on. And hugged, and counted [...]

This, too, is life! Shh!

Posted on May 20, 2008
By Emmanuelle
Friend, if I could, I would take you by the hand and lead you to this place, my place.
Enter this gate, and walk through paths that had withstood the pounding of decades – of feet, of cars, of wheeled beds and fast-rolling stretchers.  Here, run your fingers over these cream-colored [...]

Riding out the storm

Posted on May 27, 2008
By Emmenuelle
It was the most awful day to have a birthday, but then, no one knew it would turn out so.
The cake was bought a day before, two other cakes were to be brought down from the city. She so loved cakes, especially when creamy-smooth mocha icing is finger-dipped and happily [...]

Re-evaluating our values (Conclusion)

Posted on May 12, 2008     
By Emmanuelle
Not to be confused with its numerical successors, the first EDSA revolution will always remain a phenomenon in the perception of the international community. The personal experience, however, had awakened us Filipinos to the surprise that the values we had looked for, or had presumed long-dead and buried, were there [...]

Re-evaluating our values

Doctors of the mind claim that our realities are stuff that dreams are made of. On the other hand, they also claim our dreams cross-over to the reality of our days.
Usually, the lingering waking effects of these dreams diminish to nothingness. Sometimes though, these escalate to the status of walking stalking nightmares.
Who among the Pangasinenses [...]

A kick in time

There is this true story of an adorable first grader, with dimples so deep on both cheeks, on both knees, and just at the region of both kidneys. This is not descriptive overkill. We said adorable, didn’t we?
To exercise our creative imagination further, let’s call this adorably dimpled boy Dimples, shall we?
One day, Dimples runs [...]