Borrowed from Andra Exclusive 24 April 2025 Lifted from Celia Diaz Laurel 23 May 2023 Because YOU asked for it, we are giving you another snippet of “The Remarkable Miss Nora Aunor” penned by Celia Diaz Laurel for the Superstar's 18th birthday. Lollipops and Roses was a certified blockbuster but her legion of fans would not have probably hinted that Nora was silently suffering from many things, mainly intrigues and social pressure during this film’s shoot in the US. In her tribute, Mrs. Laurel disclosed about a particular day when Nora was not in her usual active self and had become the shoot's cause of delay due to her frequent disappearances from the set. Naturally, the delays had also began to make her two leading men, Cocoy and Don Johnson, fidgety too. So with all good intentions, Mrs. Laurel silently followed her. She found her sobbing in a corner. Trying her best to comfort her, Mrs. Laurel gently placed her hand on Nora's head. Though surprised, the...
9 November 2019 lifted from the writing of Melany Amante Mabao Maguindanao too irresistible not to share. How beautifully crafted by your magic pen. The description is beyond dreaming. A vision of a paradise! - Leah C Dancel, 9 November 2024 Deep inside the woods, the thick foliage draped over the wide clearing within.It hung gloriously from the mighty branches of the towering trees around. A spellbinding beauty of green leafy canopy that shades you from the heat and glare of the sunlight. Standing in the middle of several massive wood trunks...I'm savouring with delight, the beauty of nature. I am drowning in the freshness of the natural woody scents coming from the tree barks, combined with the smell of the mossy earth. The abundance of light green moss carpeted the ground and seemed to have crawled and covered several large protruding roots. The temperature here is much cooler than the outside and it permeated through the pores of my skin.I inhaled long...
Lifted from OPTIC POLITICS EDITORIAL | The Candle That Burned Out: The Collapse of Martin Romualdez’s Speakership OPTIC Politics | September 17, 2025 Power, in a democracy, is never permanent. It is borrowed, conditional, and answerable to the Constitution and the people. Yet Martin Romualdez believed otherwise. For three years, he built his speakership on the illusion of invincibility, mistaking political arithmetic for public trust. Today, that illusion has collapsed, and his resignation marks not just the fall of one man, but the implosion of an entire machinery of arrogance. Romualdez’s downfall was not sudden — it was the natural result of years of abuse. His speakership will be remembered as a textbook case of how not to lead a legislative chamber. Under his watch, budget insertions and flood-control scandals surfaced, billions in taxpayer money allegedly redirected and repackaged with suspicious precision. Congress, endowed by the Constitution with the power of the purse, wa...