I grew up in Malabon, formerly part of Rizal Province, but now part of Metro Manila. Malabon is well known for its delicious “Pancit Malabon”. The ingredients of a special pancit Malabon includes shrimps, oysters, squids, pork, gound “chicharon”, smoked fish flakes, boiled eggs and...
I first went to Coron in Palawan when I was still a seminarian in the early 1990’s. We have a family of benefactors in the seminary who owns a property on the island of Busuanga. They have a family vacation house on stilts made...
I first discovered the wonders of solar energy in 2009 while assigned on a mission island in the Babuyanes. My parish was on an island that is sixty nautical miles away from mainland Aparri in Luzon. When I first arrived on the island in 2008,...
It was my first time to travel to Maragusan. I did not know what to expect on the way to a place I have heard so much about, especially on the beauty of nature there. I took a van from the terminal in front of...
When I was assigned to Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros, Manila from 1994 up to 2006, I taught Basic Photography to students taking up Communication Arts. I started taking pictures when one of my uncles gave me his SLR camera in 1985...
The coconut trees and banana trees have grown back since my last visit more than ten months ago. I did not see any more crumpled roof on top of houses. Along the way, I saw that almost all of the houses have been repaired. Most...
As of this writing, it has been over two weeks now since Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) made landfall and devastated several provinces in central Philippines. On the second Sunday after the super typhoon, we made an appeal for donations to our Sunday mass goers...
One of our ministries in Davao City is chaplaincy to San Pedro College. Beside the campus is San Pedro Hospital. The Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Trinity administers the college and the hospital. The Missionaries of the Infirmed are the chaplains...
In Metro Manila most taxi cabs are colored white. There are taxi cabs that are colored yellow and green by one company and white and green by another company. There is also a fleet of taxis that are colored red. But that’s about all the...
The parish church of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage is one of the biggest Catholic churches in Gen. Santos City. There was a time when I was requested to celebrate their 12:00 noon weekday masses for a week because the Passionist Fathers who...
