Pet Melliza

The picture below was taken at the time when Black Friday or Viernes Santo devotees poured out to the streets at around 4-5 pm and wound back to church at 6-7 pm. After that, a vigil followed until midnight. Next midnight, the Mater Dolorosa and her Crucified Son "met" for some sort of "buklas lalaw" where the sorrowful mother's veil is lifted. The deep purple veils of sorrow shrouding all "santos" in the church including the Crucified One, is pulled down and communal worship begins where the minister blesses not only water and oil but as well, all means that makes lives of worshippers abundant. Pardon this repetition, the anticipated rise of the Crucified One, heralds fresh life prompting worshippers to bring samples of their seeds and tools of production that include but not limited to paray, mais, mongo and other beans, etc. brought to church for blessing. In my yonder years as acolyte, the tools dragged to worship included passenger vehicles, priv...

  The dramatis personae of the so-called Cry of Santa Barbara were actually Voluntarios, a pro-Spanosh militia dispatched to Luzon to join the Guardia Civil quell the Revolution in 1897 led by Andres Bonifacio in Manila. They staged the Cry of Santa Barbara on Nov. 17, 1898, seven months after the Guardia Civil was crushed and the last Governor General had fled to, of all places, Iloilo City where he was protected by Ilonggo elite, the same caboodle who had raised funds to train, arm and dispatch a batallion of Voluntarios to Manila. That earned Iloilo the Spanish royal moniker La Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Iloilo. No, the Voluntarios which later renamed itself Ejercito Popular, including its supposed titular head with the rank of general, was a bunch of bogus heroes, charlatans in fact if not opportunists and traitors. I copied-pasted here the link to the docu which prompted me to scribble the reaction above. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1b7hcCBJvY/

The Iloilo Provincial Employees and Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Inc. is one cooperative that beffles at least yours truly if not somebody else. The contact points, the lines of communications it offers the public to reach it, namely the two emails and two phone numbers are not working. It makes one wonder why <ipempc@yahoo.com> and <ipempc@gmail.com> and the lines (033) 332-6703 and 09177025755 -- all of which it personnel gave out to members yestrerday during the general assembly held at X-ing Hotel, Iloilo City are not working. Sorry for this repetition, I dialed four times as of this writing (033) 332-6703 and 09177025744 and all that yours truly got were rings, rings, rings, rings ad infinitum until my CP stopped dialing. I attempted twice more and all I got were unanswered rings. Same for its two email addresses <ipempc@yahoo.com> and <ipempc@gmail.com>: my two emails one to each yesterday and another round today, were unanswered. My emails did not...

  "Bolanteros", the Visayan for ttransient or temporary vendors who once added life to the brisk commerce at the Super and Central markets, are gone now as result of "mallification". Yrong-Yrong City and majority of its "honorables" just love SM Prime Holdings at the expense of the vendors. These subsistence entrepreneurs are self-sufficient and add revenues to the local government which traits are eroded by "mallification", that is, the city government, having volunteered as water boy, executive assistant, alalay, tong collector of SM Prime Holdings, owner of chains of malls nationwide which the regime of Datu Saripada Agwak have gifted, yes gifted", de facto full ownership and control of Yrong-Yrong's two prime real estate assets totaling 3 ha. + for at least 50 years. During these 50 years, SM gets all the collections from rents, fees on delivery trucks and parking vehicles of market goers. During 50 years, SM pays no rent, that is, ...

  #GlobePalpak #GlobeInutil @GlobeFiber Three times it bogged down in January 2026 alone. That's how "service-oriented" Globe is. It charges P500 prior to actual repair and promises refund if the fault lied in its line. Two times its wifi disconnected in the second week of January 2026 alone; the fault lied in its fiberoptics connection meters away from my place. It broke down again, its third and last for the month, January 30, 2026. The defect was in its terminal box, some 100 meters from my place. It pre-charged me P500 for repair subject to same condition of refund. The fault lied on its circuit box hundred meters from my place which means, I should have been refunded. GlobeFiber Bwisit did not refund the second repair for the fault clearly its own. Yesterday, Jan. 31, 2026, I reported the same problem but this time, I refused to pre-pay for the repair for the obvious reason that it could repeat the same thievery paying this gangster telecom to correct its own defe...

TAX PAYERS IN YRONG-YRONG are bleeding from the 300+% hike in real property taxes that a “midnight” tax ordinance imposed in the dead of the night sans public hearing (therefore void) that the outgoing set of members of the consejo de jalo rushed before the freshly elected councilors took their seats on July 1, 2022.   Datu Saridpada Agwak, author of multi-billion peso loans in his two consecutive terms (the same author of the P2B Pavia haws shiao) flexed his bogus generosity in response to public outrage by offering 40% “discount” on prompt payers, which turns out no better than Damocles’s Sword that may fall on taxpayers’ heads anytime at the pleasure of Datu Saripada Agwak’s himself before his second straight term expired.   That same sword can fall anytime on our heads, this time, at the whim of Rise-Rise, successor, alter-ego and political alter-ego of her father DSA who is behind the political wheel back stage.   Conventional and cyber media today are gloati...