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I need a hero
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - September 23, 2005 - 12:00am
I have this theory that the day God said, "There shalt be a Patricia," was also one of the more boring days in Creation. So the Big Guy decided to have a little fun. "Thou shalt be born reckless, fearless...
For a life lost
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - September 16, 2005 - 12:00am
It was Sept. 11, 2001, 8 a.m., when Marie Rose Abad called her husband from her 89th floor office. Rudy was on his treadmill. "Don’t worry," she said. "I’m okay." He asked why she was...
Filipinisms 102
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - September 9, 2005 - 12:00am
You’re on a visit to the pink-painted, billboard-crowded, smoke-belching world of Metro Manila. You’ve haggled in the bazaars, gotten drunk in the bars, been ripped off by taxi drivers and stopped for bribes...
On finding neverland
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - September 2, 2005 - 12:00am
Today is the first clear day in one long, soaking wet week. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and I trudge along weighed down by an enormous umbrella –the first time I carry one along. I’ve counted...
Assembly line
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - August 26, 2005 - 12:00am
I have reached the climax of my educational career. For 17 years, I’ve stressed, sweated and strained for this one moment. Farewell, oh gallons of black-with-sugar coffee, begone are the hours trying to challenge...
Oh give me a home
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - August 12, 2005 - 12:00am
She calls herself a halfie. Half one thing, half another. At one time she reminded me of a tanned Hilary Duff, at another, J.Lo ready to belt out into song. But it’s easy to forget who she resembles once the...
The voice of silence
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - July 29, 2005 - 12:00am
In 1983, Benigno Aquino was shot to death on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. "If I get shot on the head like Kennedy," he said to one of his friends, "I am not going to go down on...
The notebook
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - July 22, 2005 - 12:00am
You know you love her. When you met her, it was the equivalent of the heavens parting and the voice of Morpheus loud in your ear – "She’s The One." It is fate and destiny and the wish you made...
Always open
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - July 8, 2005 - 12:00am
It’s five in the morning, and I’m sitting in front of computer number 54 at Alva Computers Shop.
Taxi drivers be warned
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - July 1, 2005 - 12:00am
I don’t consider myself a violent person. Quite the opposite. In fact, when I’m mad, I smile and become very, very polite. My friend Neil says this is a phenomenon well worth watching with popcorn and hotdogs....
Stop the world, I have to get off
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - June 24, 2005 - 12:00am
Five little girls stand in a row, dressed in navy blue shorts and T-shirts, both embroidered with last names and initials. (Since I intend to send my children to St. Theresa’s College one day, I also intend...
Chasing the sunset
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - June 17, 2005 - 12:00am
It was a nine-hour ride to Abra. The sun was barely rising when we arrived in the capital Bangued. Loaded with cameras and bottles of mineral water, we were there to document the incredible story of a group of Abrenians...
Chasing the sunset
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - June 17, 2005 - 12:00am
It was a nine-hour ride to Abra. The sun was barely rising when we arrived in the capital Bangued. Loaded with cameras and bottles of mineral water, we were there to document the incredible story of a group of Abrenians...
Chasing the sunset
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - June 17, 2005 - 12:00am
It was a nine-hour ride to Abra. The sun was barely rising when we arrived in the capital Bangued. Loaded with cameras and bottles of mineral water, we were there to document the incredible story of a group of Abrenians...
A corner of peace
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - June 10, 2005 - 12:00am
We walk over cracked, narrow alleyways and paths cutting through rows of shanties piled on top of each other. I look around and saw people leaning against wooden doorframes, watching our progress. I’ve been...
Leaving on a jet plane
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - May 27, 2005 - 12:00am
Once upon a time
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - May 20, 2005 - 12:00am
I came to watch a fairy tale. Once on This Island, I was told, is an adaptation of The Little Mermaid. As I’m one of the thousands of little girls who warbled Disney’s Part of this World in swimming pools...
The Red Giant
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - May 13, 2005 - 12:00am
When you’re 13, a girl, and in a private Catholic school, there are certain rights and wrongs that are unquestionable and inevitable. God is in heaven, the devil burns in hell, and you spend a year in purgatory...
All aboard the Caravan for Peace
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - April 29, 2005 - 12:00am
Mindanao is one of the most beautiful and abundant parts of the country. Despite its richness, development in Mindanao has been greatly impeded by conflicts that have resulted in extreme poverty. Security and lasting...
Filipinisms 101
by Patricia Chanco Evangelista - April 22, 2005 - 12:00am
You are born and bred in the United States, on a visit to the Philippines, recently married to a Filipino wife or accompanying your girlfriend on a Christmas visit home. Whoever you are, husband, boyfriend, fiancée...
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