Take 5 as BlogWatch turns 5
tonyo Conventional wisdom today would say that an assembly of bloggers is like cats and dogs put together in one tiny space. We are said to be too feisty and too…
November 2014
#RememberHaiyan Diaries: The new normal after Yolanda
As international NGOs and funding agencies rush to provide more and more temporary and “transitional” shelters across Samar, Leyte and the regional hub Tacloban City, the people are living a…
#RememberHaiyan Diaries: ‘Build Back Better’
Day One of the Plan International Philippines (Plan) media tour brought us to Barangays 62 and 62-A in Tacloban City. By a stroke of luck, both barangays did not sustain…
#RememberHaiyan Diaries: Touchdown Tacloban
Thanks to newfound friends, I was able to visit Tacloban and parts of Samar and Leyte in time for the first anniversary of epic supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan). By newfound friends,…
REVOLUTIONARY & LEGENDARY: Kabataang Makabayan and the power of choice
Before 1964, young Filipinos were told and taught that there were no other choices except to study, graduate, get a job, work hard and hope for success. The young workers…