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SunStar + March 12, 2021 LAST City Council session, the phrase “kawawa kaming mga roving vendors, wala kaming makain” has again been used to appeal to the setting up of the pasalubong booth in Burnham Park. But let me show another side of that Kawawa kami that people are now using more often during this pandemic. There are always many sides to a story and “kawawa kami” is of many sides. At the first public hearing that I conducted upon the start of my term in July 2019 was with the roving vendors. On day one, they were lining up outside my office requesting special permit...

SunStar January 29, 2021 THE new city ordinance banning chewing betel nut quid has stimulated the resurgence and telling of “Kiangan jokes.” There is no better way to forget and escape the boring atmosphere of home self-quarantine but re-live those funny and entertaining jokes among family members and friends. Kiangan jokes are raillery banters or good-humorous teasing. And the butt of ridicule is normally a personality from Kiangan. Kiangan is the ancient town in Ifugao province, a paradise in folklore where the local version of the biblical creation of humans took place, l...

December 18, 2020 THE Christmas Season is in the air. Though it is pandemic, we are catching the excitement after the Church lighted the Advent candles. When I go home at night, when I see the Christmas lights lighted in our neighborhood, I also switch on my Christmas lights to brighten a seemingly bleak season because of the pandemic. With this then is the Christmas buying and selling of items to give away to friends and family. People now have planned to do Baratilyos, Christmas showcases of micro, small, medium enterprises (MSMEs), Plantitos and Plantitas, and more ways to dra...

SunStar + December 11, 2020 DECADES ago, you could judge a city by the number of newsstands on its main streets. Baguio City already was a cosmopolitan city even then. In the early 1920s, it already has a bookstore, owned by the mother of the great grammarian Jean Edades. At that time, most of Manila still had no electricity. After Manila, many of the English language newspapers sprouted in Baguio even before Baguio became a charter city in 1909. Yes, Baguio had a lot of newsstands. The most prominent, even during the 1970s, was Jack’s Newsstand at the corner of Session Rd. and...