[OPINION] The scope of loss: 5 years after the UP Faculty Center fire
Apr 1, 2021 10:15 PM PHT
Jonathan Victor Baldoza
The news erupted sometime after midnight. Though my tasks for the night remained unfinished, I was glued to my social media feeds as they generated an avalanche of updates.
Once it was verified that the reports were neither fake nor part of a cruel April Fools’ prank, that there was indeed a fire and it was in fact the FC being razed to the ground, I felt an anguish and panic that only kept worsening as the incident went on. While the FC was no paradise – with its terrible indoor lighting, poor ventilation, cramped spaces, and dilapidated facilities – it was, nevertheless, to professors and to many of their students, a home in many ways, an intimate bazaar in the greater marketplace of ideas, a welcoming shelter for the inquisitive mind.
[OPINION] Coming home is always hard, but always easy
Mar 17, 2021 1:44 PM PHT Are you back in the Philippines? Why did you come back? a source asked me one day, when I was asking for information for a report.
Not this question again, I thought. I ve run out of ways to answer that question, and frankly, my family is also running out of ways to understand why I keep coming back.
I ve just come from an extended 3-month stay in the United Kingdom, where my family lives. It was only supposed to be for one month, but the new UK COVID-19 variant closed the border and forced me to extend for another month.
Mama Sita Foundation Launches Month-Long Webinar Series on Filipino Cuisine 4:50 pm
The Mama Sita Foundation, in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), launches a lecture-webinar series entitled “Pinoy Food Stories: Evolution of Philippine Cuisine” for students, the food-curious, and history buffs alike. The online course aims to take participants through the evolution of Philippine cuisine, from indigenous foods and ingredients to the different culinary practices of Filipinos around the world today.
Dr. Pia Arboleda (left) and Mr. Paolo Paculan (right), main lecturers for the Pinoy Food Stories
Under the wings of Dr. Pia Arboleda, Director of the Center for Philippine Studies and Coordinator of the Filipino and Philippine Literature Program at the UHM, the online course will be taught by Mr. Paolo Ven Paculan of the Ateneo de Manila Junior High School.
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