Posts by H. Marcos C. Mordeno
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOW: Gates of hell
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – When novelist Dan Brown published his “The Da Vinci Code” some sectors of the Catholic Church wanted him crucified for blasphemy. The Church mobilized hundreds… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Overheard
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 May) – Yesterday morning, I went to the capitol grounds which is a favorite site of locals who love to jog or do other forms of exercise. Since… »
Refreshing
Visitors enjoy the cool waters of Asik-asik Falls in Sitio Dulao, Barangay Dado, Alamada town, North Cotabato on April 27, 2013. Turned into an attraction starting last year by the municipal government, the… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Forever theirs to keep
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – Whether you ask the Angaras, Enriles, Cayetanos, Binays and other dynastic political families, they have one ready answer: There’s nothing wrong with political dynasties as… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Surveys as anomalies
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/08 April) — Like in the US, preelection surveys in the Philippines have become a permanent fixture of the contests for the Senate and the presidency. The similarity… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Revisionism in the Gospel?
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 March) – On Maundy Thursday, the National Geographic Channel ran a documentary on the possibility that the accounts on the trial of Jesus The Christ, as contained… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Blind faith or sheer arrogance?
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 March) — One thing I hate listening to during masses is when the priest riles against the Reproductive Health Law. I hate it more when he does… »
Color of Summer
People in Malaybalay City know summer is not far behind when the leaves of trees called golden shower, like this one near the cathedral, turn yellow and start to fall. MindaNews photo… »
Kaamulan Street Dancing
Dancers wow crowd during the street dancing contest Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Malaybalay City. The competition highlighted the Kaamulan, an annual festival showcasing Lumad cultures in Bukidnon, and touted… »
Kaamulan Festival 2013
Dancers from Malaybalay City wow the largelly hometown crowd during the street dancing contest Saturday, March 2, 2013 in Malaybalay City. The competition highlighted the Kaamulan, an annual festival showcasing… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Clueless on Sabah
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/28 February) – Like in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide,” President Benigno Aquino III has displayed a split personality type of diplomacy. On one hand,… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: When truth is ambushed
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 February) — So what really happened, Mr. Senate President, Sir? Was then defense secretary and now Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile ambushed shortly before would-be dictator Ferdinand… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Taking off the fisherman’s shoes
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/12 February) – Roman Catholics consider Saint Peter the Apostle as the first Pope. That’s how the highest position in the 1.2-billion strong church earned for it the… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Tubbataha in troubled waters
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – The silence of Malacanang over the grounding Thursday of USS Guardian, a US Navy warship in Tubbataha Reef is sickening. Had it been a Philippine… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Bello the belt
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 January) – Congress has passed a bill that would give indemnification to some 10,000 victims of the Martial Law regime of Ferdinand E. Marcos. The bill is… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Pacquiao, Parkinson’s and politics
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 January) – Acquiring the dreaded Parkinson’s disease is one of the risks professional boxers face due to the beating that their brain gets every time they fight.… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Lessons from Pablo
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/ 6 December) – Tropical typhoon Pablo (international codename: Bopha) brought home the message that Mindanao (or at least most of its provinces) is beginning to lose its… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Migrant power in US politics
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/8 November) – Surveys had suggested it would be a tight race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the Republican Party bet for the White House. Obama,… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Gold yard, graveyard
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – A week after the tragedy in Barangay Kimlawis in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur that left a pregnant mother and her two sons dead, no government… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: From Paquibato to Kiblawan
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/25 October) – Civilians should not become the objects of attacks. This is the crux of International Humanitarian Law or IHL, the law governing the conduct of both… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Democracy as a farce
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/6 October) – As the filing of the certificates of candidacy for next year’s midterm elections closed on Friday, October 5, Filipino voters will again have to face… »
Paper Work
PAPER WORK. Children at the elementary school in Barangay Indahag in Cagayan de Oro City spend the afternoon on Thursday, October 4, learning the Japanese paper art origami. MindaNews photo… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Same old Surigao del Sur
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 September) – Like Christmas, politics is in the air as the filing of certificates of candidacy approaches. And as expected, many local politicians have jumped into the… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Sons of their guns
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 September) – So, where’s the supposed reformer named Benigno S. Aquino III? Gone. Not physically but from the hopes and dreams of those who voted him and… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Romney: Next American Caesar?
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 August) — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney spiced up his acceptance speech Thursday night (Friday morning in the Philippines) as the Republican Party’s nominee for the US… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: The plagiarist as bully, the bully as plagiarist
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Plagiarism – an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Sotto and a culinary metaphor
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 August) – In the continuation of his turno en contra speech on the Reproductive Health Bill today (Wednesday), Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente Sotto III again defended… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Media and disproportions
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 August) – Certainly, the memory of the late Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo deserves a niche in the nation’s consciousness. But as in past instances where a… »
Former Adversaries
FORMER ADVERSARIES. Fr. Edicio de la Torre, a Martial Law era activist, shares a light moment with 4th Infantry Division chief MGen Victor A. Felix, during the testimonial dinner on… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Of reason and religion
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/9 Aug) – Opponents of the Reproductive Health Bill have plenty of religion in their minds, but they appear to be defending it at the expense of reason.… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: News as PNoy sees it
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 July) – It’s normal for public officials to worry over negative reports coming out in the media on the economy, peace and order and other matters concerning… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Surprises in London
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 July) – Mr. Bean’s (Rowan Atkinson) appearance as an “orchestra member” at the breathtaking opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London surprised and amused millions… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Games nations play
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 July) – How do you – or maybe, how can you – wean politics from sports? Even the Olympics, which opens its 30th season 9pm today (July… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Trillanes’ kapalparan
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 July) – What is Senator Antonio Trillanes IV up to? I’m referring to the military mutiny leader turned senator’s statement that retired Major General Jovito Palparan was… »
Commitment
COMMITMENT. Participants sign a pledge of commitment for the rehabilitation of the Cagayan de Oro river basin, during a workshop on disaster risk reduction held in the city on July… »
7th Andew te Keretungan
Tribal leaders join the panampulot during a ritual to signal the start of the 7th Andew te Keretungan (Keretungan Day) in Barangay Lourdes, Valencia City on July 11, 2012. Keretungan,… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Clueless Pinoys
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/5 July) – Many of us probably read for the first time about Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons.” In the novel… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Sick (spin) doctor
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/02 July) — With the political air now filled with the scent – or maybe ordure – of next year’s midterm elections, expect the media to be contaminated… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Home alone
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 June) – I’ve hardly seen the sun this week. The rains would come even at midday, leaving a dreary sensation that blends with the stillness of our… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Rising expectations for LJ
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 June) – After three tries, LeBron James won his first championship title in the NBA and the second for the Miami Heat. His first finals were with… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Betrayal in Rio
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 June) – The three-day UN Conference on Sustainable Development, held in the Brazilian capital Rio de Janeiro, officially began on Wednesday, June 20, but observers said the… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: The carbon conspiracy
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 June) – Twenty years after governments and private entities met in Rio de Janeiro for the first Earth Summit, all roads lead again to the Brazilian city… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Silencing the Thunder
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/18 June) – With the Miami Heat taking game two of their best of seven championship series against the Oklahoma Thunder in the NBA, my prediction that the… »
SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: June 12 and a gift
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 June) – No, I’m not going to write about the 114th anniversary of Philippine Independence. This is a tribute to a girl in a faraway land who… »
