From a dumpsite to a village

Imagine 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.

Name Game Sugbo

Names 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…

Animosity

From the time my mind was filled with all worldly things, I kept on saying my hands weren’t as feminine looking as those girls I see in shows. My hands were like “a boy’s hand,” as I said. But I was unaware when and how I got an idea of the standards of beauty, though I know for certain where I got it — media.

2 week holiday/martial arts practice in Cebu

Proposed by Bartolome, operator at Maribago Tours, Visayas Tourism and Cebu Maps.

MMA Clubs in Cebu: 1. Hijos De Roa Judo Club dojo in Lexmark corporate building, Cebu City…