It is my father-in-love’s death anniversary today, April 7 (I call my in-laws my in-loves because I feel that the term is more appropriate); anyway, going back, his passing as well as those of other relatives made me realize just how fleeting life...

Unveiling the Mutya Mystique
Almost every other little girl out there dreams of becoming a beauty queen. We are a nation enthralled with beauty pageants that it has become a national pastime rivaling the fame and following of telenovelas and basketball games. In our country where chaos is the order of the day, we need palliatives to over-sensitize our senses so that we have no more emotional energy left to expend over much more mundane matters that never gets resolved.