My watch said, “8:45 am”, when the PCOS machine shouted “Congratulations!, no. 74 voter successfully voted. Yes! I just voted for Richard “Dick” Gordon otherwise known as the “Tunay na Lalaki” and had used the controversial PCOS machine under the first ever automated elections in our beloved country – the Philippines. But, that puts the cart ahead the horse! Let me backtrack a little to what...

We had a good night’s rest and we woke up late the next day. It was already 8:30 am when we finally had breakfast. The room rate we got in Grand Season Hotel and Casino included free breakfast for two persons and since we already got a discount for the free extra bed for our daughter, we paid for her breakfast which was a filipino buffet consisting of fried rice, fried egg, tocino, fried bangus, corned beef, fruit juice, coffee and...

The heat brought about by the long dry spell known as El Nino phenomenon and the meteoric rise of our electric bill courtesy of MERALCO were the couple of reasons that motivated us to take advantage of the three-day vacation last week-end (May 1 to 3) and spent it in Subic Bay Freeport Zone. While it rained hard last friday evening (the heaviest so far after the deluge brought by typhoon Ondoy last November), I thought that the following...

I rarely spend time reading the flyers enclosed with the the monthly bills from the card companies. You see, I am a certified plasticman, i.e., I pay 95% of my transactions using plastic money – popularly known as credit card. As of my last count, I have six active credit cards: two from Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI Express Card and BPI Express Credit Mastercard), two from Citbank (one Visa and one Mastercard),one from Banco de Oro...