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Who remembers Rizal’s mi ultimo adios?
by Aven Piramide - June 21, 2026 - 12:00am
I did not know what Thursday morning (last Thursday, I mean) had in store for me.
Sets of two people, cases and senators
by Aven Piramide - June 18, 2026 - 12:00am
When Matt Monro sang the poetic line “does a rose forget when it's spring" he, according to the internet, “expressed the comforting idea that (a noble) purpose will always re-emerge when the...
China’s attack on Teodoro is aimed at the Philippines
by Aven Piramide - June 14, 2026 - 12:00am
I spent a part of my Independence Day celebration trying to review some historical data of known Boholano leaders of the past.
A Philippine lagoon now invaded by Communist China
by AvenPiramide - June 11, 2026 - 12:00am
There was a 1980 movie that was set in an “idyllic lagoon” somewhere in the Pacific.
Ilonggos: Cayetano persona non grata
by Aven Piramide - June 7, 2026 - 12:00am
There was something that I learned from my Public International Law of decades ago, that some learned officials of our neighboring Negros Island wanted to give a wider scope.
“Legal exhibition,” anyone?
by Aven Piramide - June 4, 2026 - 12:00am
When Mandaue was still in the process of being chartered as a city, we were required by our Political Science 10 professor, the late Atty. Alice Alburo, to submit a term paper on it.
Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s Plunder Case No. 3
by Aven Piramide - May 31, 2026 - 12:00am
In college, numbers were not my favorite.
Pruning
by Aven Piramide - May 28, 2026 - 12:00am
One day, when I began to cut newly sprouting branches and drying twigs on the trees that I planted, Ludy, the lady owner of the lot adjacent to my mountain barangay property, seemed amused looking at a lawyer clumsily...
Disregarding the Filipino language
by Aven Piramide - May 21, 2026 - 12:00am
There was a time when we tried to blend and embellish our Visayan culture with the perceptively overbearing (my biased opinion alone) Tagalogs by singing our national anthem in our own dialect.
Why are we so restive?
by Aven Piamide - May 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Why is there so much social upheaval in our country today? I dare to opine that this increasingly intense and frequently violent disruption of our established social order, norms, and power structures is related...
Is this a wind of change?
by Aven Piramide - May 7, 2026 - 12:00am
In 1990, Klaus Meine, the lead singer of the German rock band Scorpions, authored the song Wind of Change.
Two Philippine English words and forthwith
by Aven Piramide - May 3, 2026 - 12:00am
Have you heard of aggrupation?
What five months!
by Aven Piramide - April 30, 2026 - 12:00am
Few days ago, I exchanged text messages with The Freeman’s opinion editor.
Public domain or free enterprise?
by Aven Piramide - April 23, 2026 - 12:00am
For a very long while, I have been meaning to write an article that is either too bland and senseless that readers tend to discontinue poring over it after reading just the first few lines or thought providing enough...
No to scholarships, yes to city college
by Aven Piramide - April 19, 2026 - 12:00am
The Honorable Cebu City Councilor Alvin Arcilla must have in mind the hope Dr. Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonzo y Realonda pinned on the Filipino youth.
A tattoed president?  
by Aven Piramide - April 16, 2026 - 12:00am
In my small collection of Long Playing vinyls, there is a record entitled The Rose Tattoo, sung by Perry Como.
Offshore trolls
by Aven Piramide - April 9, 2026 - 12:00am
The improvement in the form and substance of communication from the time Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented the first wireless telephone, in 1880, to the invention in 1973 by Martin Cooper...
A different RUM and BBM
April 6, 2026 - 12:00am
FIn my very first month of teaching Political Law, some 48 years ago, a student of about eight years my senior, confidently raised his hand and asked an out-of-line question.
A different RUM and BBM
by Aven Piramide - April 5, 2026 - 12:00am
In my very first month of teaching Political Law, some 48 years ago, a student of about eight years my senior, confidently raised his hand and asked an out-of-line question.
Why not a blue collar university?
by Aven Piramide - April 2, 2026 - 12:00am
In the world of education, we have witnessed these past few days to be the “graduation or moving up week.”
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