Writing Contest of SPA Batch 64 and Quesada Technologies launched

by Amy Libao / Vilma Quesada
St. Philiomena’s Academy’s Alumni Batch 64 (a.k.a. SPA Batch 64) and Quesada eTechnologies have finally launched their Essay/Expository Writing Contest! The project was first bared during the Batch 64 first reunion last January, 2009 at Ginofreo and Engracia Quesada’s residence and at Paraiso Resort.  And in their mid-year re-union last May 17, 2009, at the [...]

Hubbie of a Pozorrubian releases first novel

by Gin Quesada
With the publication of his first novel, another author has again brought inspiration to lots of aspiring writers with no formal training nor collegiate education in this field. Richard Thomas Banegas, the husband of a Pozorrubian has come out with his first novel, Hands of Fire /the Phantom.  Moved by the tragic death [...]

A Hymn of our own!

“The Pozorrubio Hymn, as with the other symbols of the municipality, should enthuse each and everyone of us to be forever proud of being Pozorrubians wherever we find ourselves, and should inspire us to dream, to plan and to work together for the progress of our town and our people.”
Per Resolution No. 38 – [...]

SiSONGS!

Oct 21, 2008
By Emmanuelle
IT is nifty. It is magic. She plucks an idea from out of thin air. She cups it in her palm half-closed. She nurses it for a while, with a prayer and maybe a hum. She whispers a wish, thus puts a life into it, and releases it to the unwitting world [...]

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 [...]