That the encyclopedia became obsolete with the advent of internet and its search engines like google search or yahoo search is an old story. Fifteen years ago when my daughters were still in their elementary school, we invested a fortune to buy a complete set of encyclopedia for their use to do research work on certain school assignments. But now,  with google search, a student would  just visit an internet café, open the...

It has been several years since we lost  brod Victor  “Saxo” C.  Navasero, Jr. ‘55. Brod Saxo was the acknowledged Upsilon Sigma Phi’s stag singer. During the years that I was a resident fellow, the frat stag party was Saxo.  Saxo was a livewire, the center of attraction, the stand-up comedy artist and stag sing along master rolled into one. I must confess that one of the reasons why I always made...

Last Sunday afternoon, I decided to invite my wife to the movies. Earlier that day, I read a good review written by columnist Rina Jimenez-David in her “At Large” column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer about the movie “Mama Mia”.  Reading her review, I thought “Mama Mia- the Movie” would be comparable to “Xanadu” – the musical which topbilled Olivia Newton-John Travolta. Xanadu is...

Since we started firing from one Stage to another at 10:00 a.m., all of us followed strictly all the safety rules in handling our guns. Nobody was disqualified by the Range Officers. It was then that I realized the importance that a gun owner must belong to a Philippine National Police-accredited gun club. I guess that the value of cultivating the individual discipline being inculcated in us owners of gun during the entire process from...

While waiting for my turn to be on the firing line at Stage 1, I saw that there were few shooters waiting for their turn at the firing line of Stage 4. So, I pulled out my card from Stage 1 and submitted it to the Range Officer of Stage 4. I first made a thorough study of all the targets in Stage 4. It looked like a movie set. Temporary structures made with ordinary lumber were nailed together to form like a series of rooms with blue...