As a little boy, among the occasional bonding rituals I had with my father that I really enjoyed was that regular trip to our local barbershop. Compared to the luxe, high-end salons of this day and age with their fancy interiors and chic clientele, walk into your local Bruno’s and you will find that barber shops offer no-nonsense, masculine services for every man’s grooming requirements. At four years old I remember sitting on the gigantic barber’s chair getting my sideburns trimmed (with the make-shift bangko to make the seat higher, of course) and being fascinated by the sight of middle-aged, older men reclined in their seats with their eyes closed, their faces covered in white goop, getting a professional shave from the barber with a straight razor. At home I was equally mesmerized by the classic image of watching my dad shave his moustache in the mornings before heading off to work.
As a little boy, among the occasional bonding rituals I had with my father that I really enjoyed was that regular trip to our local barbershop. Compared to the luxe, high-end salons of this day and age with their fancy interiors and chic clientele, walk into your local Bruno’s and you will find that barber shops offer no-nonsense, masculine services for every man’s grooming requirements. At four years old I remember sitting on the gigantic barber’s chair getting my sideburns trimmed (with the make-shift bangko to make the seat higher, of course) and being fascinated by the sight of middle-aged, older men reclined in their seats with their eyes closed, their faces covered in white goop, getting a professional shave from the barber with a straight razor. At home I was equally mesmerized by the classic image of watching my dad shave his moustache in the mornings before heading off to work.
The Office of the Ombudsman and the Government Service Insurance System have inspected detained Sen. Jinggoy Estrada’s stripped Senate office, with the former looking into possible legal violations and the latter checking the structural integrity of the dismantled space, Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian confirmed yesterday.
Senators will take a break from their duties as impeachment court judges this week so they can focus on deliberating the proposed budget and having it approved before the year ends.
The Office of the Ombudsman inspected the Senate office that detained Sen. Jinggoy Estrada stripped bare before handing it over to Sen. Tito Sotto, Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian confirmed Saturday, October 10.
The prosecution presented its final witness against Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday, October 9, a forensic financial analyst who claimed before the Senate impeachment court that the Duterte couple had a whopping P817.87 million in undeclared assets and income from 2022 to 2025.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has placed Cale88 Foods Corp., owned by Vice President Sara Duterte’s husband Manases Carpio, under formal tax investigation, an agency official told the Senate impeachment court yesterday.
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