Hello World!I am Jared, I have lived in Metro Cebu for more than 2 decades. I have experienced transferring locations 20 meters from our original residence. TWICE! Don’t ask why we seem to enjoy moving the entire house at a spitting distance.
It was a Dream come true : meeting the An-225 MriyaSo I was plane-spotting again. This time, with one aircraft in mind : Antonov An-225.I’m a new member of a group called PPSG — Philippine Plane Spotters Group. I was a bit amazed that I found a herd of spotters who…
To The Games We Used to PlayI miss looking out the window, seeing the bright rays of the sun and getting excited to go out and play. Back…
From a dumpsite to a villageImagine having to live in a shanty with seven kids and mountains of garbage nearby. Rutshe Roble need not think about it. She has lived it for almost thirty years of her life.
An hour for a hundred yearsHave some time alone — that’s what we all want at times when our deadlines are staring us straight into the eyes, our reading assignments are piling upon our desk, our 100-page exams coverage has only been read a night before the test. You don’t know what to do first, and you can…
Arriving in the Chaos of CebuThe journey there, as with most long plane trips, was unpleasant to say the least. We left from Auckland…
Barrio UngoWhen you live in Naga, a town south of Cebu City, as I did during some of my most important years, ghosts and mythical beasts are present…
HorseplayI’m now in that stage of fatherhood where I need to decide if the first words my child speaks must be in English or Cebuano. My boy will soon turn 2 and he now has a decent collection of syllables that can be woven into complete words the moment he’s ready, like “ba,” “ga,” “ta,” “a” and the occasional “duh”…
What’s a true Cebuano?In a live radio interview recently, the DJ asked me a question which I thought was the easiest in the world. He said, “What do you think is a true Cebuano?”I was shocked. Is this the type of questions DJs ask these days? They don’t make you think anymore. Before…
Name Game SugboNames of places fascinate me as I wander from town to town as a journalist.That the Spaniards influenced how various places in our island are named goes without saying. Thousands of miles away from home, the homesick friars couldn’t be faulted for imagining miniature…