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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:30:26 +0000

  SO what was the most used/abused word throughout our Taal watch? According to Peter Musngi, it was “alboroto,” Spanish for ex­citement or disturbance. Peter, the voice of ABS-CBN and co-an­chor of DZMM Teleradyo’s public affairs program, Pasada 630, ob­served that he could not escape that word – correctly pronounced or mispronounced as “alburoto” and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:00:54 +0000

  GIVE until it hurts, was St. Mother Teresa’s advice. There’s another way, give because it gives your heart a lift. Most people give anonymously, but we also need to see famous people like Derek Ram­say and Piolo Pascual doing their share to inspire others by helping, donating, putting their shoulder to the wheel, bayanihan […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:28:16 +0000

  SUPER-PRRD has a solution to Taal’s tempestuous temper tantrums. He’ll show the volcano how tough he can be, by eating the ashes as they fall and pissing into the lake. A myth in the making! The eruptions – the volcano’s – are no longer merely phreatic or even magmatic, because it looks like war […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:15:29 +0000

  BEEN there, done that. As a creature of two centuries, that’s my take on having been a witness to nature’s awfully spectacular shows of her wrath. Last Sunday’s surprise eruption of Taal volcano – alert level 4 within six hours, with an ash column rising 100 meters high, resulting in ashfalls reaching Manila 90 […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:25:10 +0000

    IF you believe your wise old grannies and elderly aunts, the saying is that any year that ends in 9 is bound to be associ­ated with events sad or bad. Last year, crowned by an annular so­lar eclipse, was not one to end on a note of collectively gladsome memories. On a mountain […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:15:46 +0000

    THE Two Popes, a Netflix movie that premiered last week, looks like a two-character play. The plot revolves around conversations be­tween Cardinal Bergoglio and Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope has invit­ed the Cardinal from Argentina to spend a few days in Castel Gan­dolfo, summer residence of the popes. The imaginary dialogues take place […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:00:18 +0000

  AT last, a beauty with very short hair gets to win and wear the crown. Miss South Africa, Zozibini Tunzi, Miss Universe 2019, stood out and that’s why she won. She was beautiful, like all the other girls, but not Barbie-beautiful. With color, skin, hair, smiles, a brand all her own, capped by a […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:00:07 +0000

  AS the SEA Games have shown, we have no lack of heroes and champions, many of them unsung and unheralded. When a policeman gave up his life by covering a live grenade with his body as it was lobbed by an amok, how many of us bothered to remember his name? He was Police […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:30:42 +0000

  FROM Russia with love and hi-tech savvy, a machine that reads how healthy one’s body is by using sound to detect what’s wrong (or could go wrong) and what’s right. Manuel Kiok, whose business (in Banawe, Quezon City) is “bringing wellness, generation to generation,” is not a doctor but after years research­ing, studying, and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 16:45:18 +0000

  PICTURE this. Last September, 230,000 teachers-to-be took their “entrance exams,” in a manner of speaking. Any day now, if it hasn’t happened already, the names of the successful examinees will be announced. The batch of 2019 is the biggest yet, according to a source in the Professional Regulations Commission, as they include applicants for […]