Tattooing of jailbirds, the indelible mark of time spent behind bars
The man groaned from the painful point of a needle as a tattoo artist pierced his arm, making way for the black ink to run under his skin.
The man groaned from the painful point of a needle as a tattoo artist pierced his arm, making way for the black ink to run under his skin.
With my bare hands, I helped build Hawaii,” declares Lilo Bonipasyo, a sakada or migrant laborer who sailed to Hawaii in 1925, in the book by Filipino-Hawaiian scholar Virgilio Menor Felipe, “Hawai’i: A Pilipino Dream.”
Every first Sunday of February, I go back to Mendiola to attend my alma mater’s Homecoming Day.
Now it can be told: The P20-million offer for the Alden Richards-Maine Mendoza love team, aka AlDub, to do a Valentine concert at Smart Araneta Coliseum has been declined by its handlers, producer Joed Serrano told the press last Friday, Jan. 29.
One of the havens in the urban jungle is the Ateneo de Manila campus. Up to the 1990s, it was a model of a well-planned development, remaining faithful to its master plan drawn almost 60 years earlier.
Our next-door neighbor Helen warned of a “bubwit” on our floor, possibly on a reconnaissance mission for Ratsville, Makati. Well, by now, its principals will have known the fatal dangers in their target territory.
DR. Gina Jamoralin, Philippine Consul General in Hawaii, has a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
Your mantra for the week: “As I love, I am prospered.”
At a lunch the other day, someone wanted to know how many of us (all seniors) were computer literate and active on Facebook. We had an impressive show of hands.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I’m reminiscing about the first time my hubby Dennis and I dated. Back in Hong Kong in 1993, we went off to watch an opera. Why can I remember what he wore but not what we watched? Maybe it’s because I was late, as usual, and so we missed the entire first act.
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