Last March 3, a 22-wheeler trailer truck spun out of control and hit the island in front of Miriam College on Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City at 2:58 a.m., spilling its load of tons of sacks of chicken-feed additives and causing unusually heavy traffic up to around 10 a.m. According to reports, nobody was killed...
Author: DLS Pineda (Dino Pineda)
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Thoughts on the standees of Rodrigo Duterte and Leila de Lima
When I first saw the Duterte standees, I almost cried laughing. Even funnier is how his supporters have made different versions of “Tatay Digs”—such as the thin and flimsy one, faded under the sun, in front of their supposed pobre residence in Davao City; the one at the head of a table somewhere in the...
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Relapsing into phone addiction, and getting out again
Last August, CoverStory ran a piece I wrote on three simple ways to lessen screen time. That was six months ago and, like a dutiful patient out of rehab, I am reporting on how it has been, some losses and some gains, since I weaned myself off my phone. Suffice it to say that it...
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What’s taking so long, Bongbong?
The first strike was at the State of the Nation Address (Sona) last July, when President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appeared to be scolding the corrupt, blurting out so confidently, “Mahiya naman kayo!” only to be met with resounding applause and loud cheers by the people he was addressing. It was a curious moment, patently Pinoy...
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Postscript to the Frankfurt Book Fair with my friends Jose Rizal, Edward Said and Adania Shibli
To be clear, I was not at the Frankfurt Book Fair. But in the past few months, I’ve been holding a book fair of sorts on my own after coming to terms with my being a polygamous reader. I seem to think that just because I am unable to read one book at a time,...
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I’m only happy when it rains
My wife and I woke up one Wednesday morning and I hit the snooze button on the alarm clock. It was raining and the air was cool. In the additional five minutes of sleep, otherwise known as negotiating with myself if I should get up or not, there was a quandary in my head: With...
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Running in (academic) ovals
In the week after the nth iteration of “The Great UP Run,” I found myself asking: What’s so great about it? Sure, this may be just a matter of branding, and brands don’t always have to make sense. But as any decent adman would know, a brand can only be as good as the service...
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Addicted to your phone? Here are 3 simple ways to lessen screen time
It’s ridiculous to me that I’m writing a list article in the year of our Lord 2025. But my excitement over finding the cure to my cellphone addiction demands that I employ the listicle’s simplicity. Friends, I have found a way out! It’s totally doable, and it doesn’t require anyone to download an app that...
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Transitional justice: Moving forward from Rodrigo Duterte is a ‘national responsibility’
With Rodrigo Duterte detained in The Hague for nearly five months, the public may now take the question seriously: What next? Even as we await the arrest of other persons involved in Duterte’s “war on drugs,” surely there is a task that ordinary Filipinos can take on, for the “war” was not waged by only...
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A view of mountains from the back of the pack
There are many things those who climb mountains can’t say about the mountains. When we city folk look at mountains from the lowlands or from the sea, they become plain geographical features, heaping mounds of rock and earth with some green on them, or backdrops for our Instagram posts. And when we imagine the task...