Pet Melliza

Yrong-Yrong's Cry of Santa Barbara, its version of Cry of Pugad Lawin, merely invites laughter if not mirth. Pugad Lawin was done August 23, 1896 when the revolutionary movement was in its infancy. A year later, Yrong-Yrong's illustrados dispatched a batallion of "voluntarious", not to support the revolution but to suppress it in defense of Spanish colonialism. The Cry of Santa Barbara, Yrong-Yrong's mimicky of Pugad Lawin (that is, if you buy the yarn of mercenaries disguised as "historians") took place on November 17, 1898, seven or eight months into the final defeat of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. Which means, the anti-Spanish revolution was already over eight months before these self-proclaimed heroes of Yrong-Yrong regaled us with the "cry" of Santa Barbara. Pugad Lawin signals the birth of an anti-colonial revolution, a national liberation movement to rid this country of Spanish colonialism; Santa Barbara heralds none. Despite

 YRONG-YRONG -- Circa 1996:  miss those yonder decade when Yrong-Yrong's reklamador-in-chief in the person of Buenaventura Geronimo, fought tooth and nails against rulers headed by Haring Mansueto. Datu Mansueto allowed his chieftains to fence off Plaza de Salog and fleeced entrance fees from visitors: Reklamador-in-chief Buenaventura screamed illegal, slammed the book Local Government Code of 1991 on his desk during discussions at the city legislature, and hailed Haring Mansueto and cronies to court. The regional trial court went for the reklamador's contention that plazas "are beyond the commerce of man" (of course, of man; do plants and beasts engage in commerce?). In the same year or thereabouts, Reklamador formed the Yrong-Yrong Business Club comprising his handpicked loyal allies. The club spawned another organization, the Anti-Flood Coalition that raised fists and fury, including a major mass mob that capped by a miting-di-abansi of sort at the defunct Provinci

 Congratulations, municipality of San Miguel, Iloilo on the launching of Iloilo's biggest terminal of farm produce. PNA's press release bills it "biggest" in Panay not just Iloilo. The "bagsakan" is timely to stymie the impact of the scheme of SM in cahoots with the crackpot Datu Saripada Agwak of Yrong-Yrong to de facto privatize the "Super" or "Terminal Market of Yrong-Yrong". The bagsakan of San Miguel is conveniently located and accessible to Leon and Alimodian, two biggest producers of vegetables just as San Miguel is a vegetable basket in itself. Presently, Leon, San Miguel and Alimodian download their farm produce at the Terminal Market of Yrong-Yrong. However, not for long: the de facto privatization in the guise of lease by the SM-Sarip Aguak scheme is expected to jack up costs of trading as Mr. Aguak in the lease contract gives SM Holdings free hand to set the rent. SM is currently constructing a multi-story structure, which on