Welcome to Saipan…bring your flashlights. 9:20 p.m. I have an hour and 40 minutes before the lights will go out (again? Yes, again and again and again!) and I will…
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Moving out
I’ve been used to the peaceful second floor office our newspaper occupied for the past nine months, comfortable in having my own key so that I could come in anytime I…
Read MoreMeeting Mr. President
After a hiatus of more than two months from being a reporter, I seemed to have lost my footing and it felt strange when we covered a press conference with the…
Read MoreIsland hopping
Even before the Continental Airlines flight we boarded from Manila landed in Palau last October. I resolved to go around the islands I saw from the plane window on a boat…
Read MoreTrekking shoe-less
(Published in Sunstar Davao, January 15, 2006 issue)The invitation to go on a jungle and river trek came from friend Micmic Villaflor of the Tia Belau newspaper in Palau one Thursday…
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