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For those on a diet in 2012. Its more fun in the Philippines!

For those on a diet in 2012. Its more fun in the Philippines!

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I have two articles in the Inquirer today, this one is on Tandang Sora on her bi...

I have two articles in the Inquirer today, this one is on Tandang Sora on her bicentennial.


Tandang Sora home on her 200th birthday
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Two hundred years ago today, Juan and Valentina Aquino,residents of Barrio Banlat, Balintawak, Caloocan (now Quezon City), picked a name for their newborn daughter from a calendar. Jan. 6, 1812, was the Feast of the Three Kings, whose names are not listed in the Bible that only describes them as wi...

My Inquirer column today on synchronizing the Philippine calendar with the rest...

My Inquirer column today on synchronizing the Philippine calendar with the rest of the world.


'Out of sync'
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If you haven't done so yet, it's not too late to get a piece of chalk or charcoal and write the following good luck charm on top of your main door: "+20+C+M+B+12." If you are in the mood, you can mark all doors and leave them on for the rest of the year.

My Inquirer column today on objects destroyed or missing from the National Libra...

My Inquirer column today on objects destroyed or missing from the National Library after the Battle for Manila in 1945.


Bandits and curios
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Last Monday, the first working day of the year, I visited the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), the National Library and the National Museum, and I found out that all these agencies, often neglected when the national budget is being prepared, face a busy and promising 2012. T...

My holidays were spent going through old files and found a video of a lecture o...

My holidays were spent going through old files and found a video of a lecture on Nicanor Abelardo I gave 25 years ago in CCP. With me were National Artists Atang de la Rama (left) and Antonino Buenaventura (right). Behind us a stark mural by future National Artist Arturo Luz.

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Use chalk to write the following charm on the top of your main door:20+C+M+B+12...

Use chalk to write the following charm on the top of your main door:
20+C+M+B+12
The numbers represent the current year 2012; the letters mean Caspar Melchior Baltazar, the three wise men (or magi); these letters can also mean "Christus Mansionem Benedicat" (Christ bless our home).
An ancient tradition brought to the Philippines by the Benedictines of Tuzing aka St Scholastica's Manila.

Sorry for this late Rizal day link, just got back from Palawan.

Sorry for this late Rizal day link, just got back from Palawan.


Jose Rizal Day: The hero and the human that is Jose Rizal | KAPUSO ONLINE | All About GMA Kapuso In.
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I have yet to see the essay I wrote on Rizal as Writer in the catalogue that acc...

I have yet to see the essay I wrote on Rizal as Writer in the catalogue that accompanies an ongoing exhibit on his life and works in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana in Madrid. I have been invited to participate in a cycle of lectures in Madrid in early February 2012.

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My Inquirer column today, Rizal Day, is NOT on Rizal :)

My Inquirer column today, Rizal Day, is NOT on Rizal :)


GMA's gifts to the Obamas
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Transparency in government and government records is something we need to learn in the Philippines, but a system must be in place to preserve records for posterity. All government agencies consume a lot of paper during the year, the equivalent of many denuded forests, and that fact should make us ra...

A feature in the Ateneo campus paper, Guidon, was reprinted in a website on othe...

A feature in the Ateneo campus paper, Guidon, was reprinted in a website on other student publications giving readers a sense of my eccentric classes in the Ateneo (and also in UP Diliman).


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If you were lucky enough to be in the first batch of student enlistment upon picking your History 165 class, chances are you might have heard this instruction straight from Dr. Ambeth Ocampo himself, the renowned historian whose teaching methods go beyond the textbook.