Everyday, I drive between home and office passing by the green watershed of La Mesa Dam. The stretch from Pangarap Village/Ciudad Real in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan along Quirino Highway up to the gate Fatima University in Lagro, Quezon City is an awesome view of vast forest secured with concrete perimeter fence in order to protect the watershed of La Mesa Dam Reservation from entry of poachers and lumberjacks. La Mesa Dam to the...

 Two more months, I will have a new son! A born positive thinker, I always look at the brighter side of a coming event. Rather than a loser’s statement of losing a a daughter, I would rather entertain the thoughts of seeing a happy couple’s beginning of their married life!  I am talking about the coming wedding of my bunso Purita Angela to Lester Parayno this December. Although they are in the process of planning a Tagaytay...

 Last year, during the 2010 Philippine Fashion Week, I watched the fashion show featuring the works of filipina Germany-based designer JOYCE PENAS PILARSKY. It was courtesy of an invite from my namesake and journalist Edgar Cruz (entertainment editor of The Tribune and owner of www.todoentertainment.com). As a ramp model during my younger years, the fashion show attracted me like a wave to the beach! Last year, I came straight from my...

It was a week of sadness and joy, of mourning and jubilation for the Upsilon Sigma Phi: an icon of the fraternity who was a great composer named as 2011 UPAA Distinguished Alumni Award in the Culture and the Arts (Music) passed away and a top-notch academician and brilliant leader in the banking industry had his investiture as the 20th President of the University of the Philippines.  As one of the directors of the Board of the Upsilon...

Our office, a government agency had been hiring some staff under the job order scheme for the several years now (when I joined our office in 1999, we were already hiring job orders). This scheme was resorted to because there are tasks that need to be done however there are no regular items created to accommodate these staff as regular personnel. Job orders are plumbers, carpenters, painters and staff with similar expertise that we need...