Dr. Joven R. Cuanang, newly “liberated” from being medical director of St. Luke’s Medical Center—he retired last December after 10 years on the job—saunters easily through the lobby of St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City, like a man with time on his hands.
Why should one be surprised that when table chatter turns to Ruby Tuason these days, it’s not so much the pork barrel issue that Manila gossip dwells on, but another interesting detail of the socialite’s life?
President Benigno Aquino III is a busy man. It is said that one of his favorite recreational activities is listening to music, including watching concerts.
Many so-called beautiful relationships go wrong and a lot of people dismiss them as irreconcilable differences. Some get so hurt they swear not to go into another relationship ever again. Others immediately jump into another relationship, hoping this time it would be better.
Over the years I have received calls from friends (more women than men) who needed a shoulder to cry on, some just aching to vent. As if I had no troubles of my own. One young woman said, “Your experience in these matters will help me.” Huh? Who died and made me Dear Abby?
It was a lively dinner dance held at Jazz ’n Bluz to mark the birthday of Arcadio “Dodong” Alegrado, erstwhile honorary consul general of Austria. The place is noted for its excellent band, which nightly attracts Cebu’s dancing-est denizens.
When I married my husband 15 years ago, I thought my life was set. I was 27 then with a string of broken love affairs. I thought he was the answer to my prayer.
Too late, I’m told, at 74, to get medical insurance. I had thought so, imagining the conditions I’m bound to develop by then—“preexisting,” as they say.
I plucked it from the shelf and went straight to the cashier. No book has provoked in me such an instant, compulsive proprietary interest. Its title alone, revealed to the browser by its spine, did it, igniting a powerful sense of self-validation: “Everything is Eventual.”
How difficult it is sometimes to distinguish love from intrusion, from what is ignorance, from what is good intention gone awry; or to untangle love from possessiveness, from discipline, from cariño brutal or from plain lousy delivery.
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