http://afterall.prepys.com Living the Life of a Wordweaver Mon, 12 May 2008 17:56:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MANY DAGUPENOS, pedestrians especially, are wondering whether there’s still the law regulating the operation of tricycles in Dagupan City. They feel that if the law has not been repealed or amended, perhaps it’s more honored now in the breach than in the observance.One need only look at the buzzing, roaring ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/05/12/tricycle-anarchy/ Local farmers are surprised at all this talk of rice shortage. They did the harvesting themselves and from experience, they know there’s enough rice to go around, in Pangasinan at least, for the next several months till the next harvest season.“What’s all the fuss?”, some farmers our    team talked to ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/05/03/poor-arent-worried-about-rice-shortage/ YOU can’t blame local officials and traders tripping over each other on radio to sing hallelujahs to business tycoon Lucio Tan the morning after his visit to Dagupan City to receive an honorary degree for leadership in entrepreneurship from the Lyceum Northwestern University. In this material world, it’s to each ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/04/22/the-color-of-money/ SOMETHING that’s closest to the gut of Pinoys now threatens to put everything going on in this country– NBN-ZTE deal, Lozada’s crusade, Lakas-Kampi merger, Villarosa’s acquittal, the smuggling issue brouhaha between congressmen and PASG chief Bebot Villar , typhoons, even Ben’s to die for ‘borjer’ – in the back burner. Rice, ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/03/23/rice-as-gut-issue/ POOR Cebu archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, now he’s really brought it upon himself, this snowballing mood of disrespect for his ecclesiastical authority. For one steeped in the psychology of human behavior being a shepherd of men, he appears to have overreacted on the Lozada phenomenon , if the reports are ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/03/19/vidals-big-blooper/ LAW students, especially those studying international law, must now be finding the current issue on the Philippines' action in the Kalayaan Group of Isands or Spratlys a thrilling case for discussion. Already, legal experts and luminaries have chimed in with their views on how defensible or indefensible the government's position is ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/03/15/playing-right-into-uncle-sams-hand/ SO FAR, it’s just a plan, alright? But surely, creating a novel Chinatown in Dagupan sounds romantic enough, considering that the Chinese entrepreneurs of the city have been here for as long as those now in their late fifties can remember. The Chinese-owned stores in Dagupan have come as huge and imposing ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/03/01/a-chinatown-in-dagupan/ PANGASINAN Police Director Isagani Nerez’es quick answer to the Provincial Governor’s order for a total gun ban in Pangasinan is, as widely expected, the setting up of checkpoints on the road and body searches or frisking of persons in such frequented spots as video-oke bars and nightclubs. It is supposed, ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/02/05/sufer-the-law-abiding-citizen/ CIVILIAN local executives had better watch out in the next few years because their political careers are under serious threat. This, especially if they have among their constituents an illustrious, top-ranking, high-profile police officer who strongly feels there’s life after retirement. You see, chances are these uniformed men, not their current ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/02/05/mayors-general-problems/ SOMETIME last December, a media colleague forwarded to me a message from Regional Police Director Pol Bataoil apparently meant to answer the issue on media payola from illegal gambling that has somehowlinked the police to the issue.  It still gains relevance, I believe, as illegal gambling seems to be very alive ... http://afterall.prepys.com/index.php/archive/2008/01/29/corruptors-of-media/