The Philippine Online Chronicles

Articles by Rudy Lao

• Life during the Martial Law era: Part 2

  21 September 2011 For the millions of Pinoys life remained pretty normal --- at least, in some ways --- and went on …

• Life during the Martial Law era: part 1

  20 September 2011   Even in those early years of the seventies, a full decade prior to the advent of cable news an…

• Turning 50

  25 July 2011   Seriously, methinks that all those nicely written quotes extolling the virtues and joys of get…

• Of Philippine heroes, big and small

  09 April 2011   As a kid I used to wonder why this country would commemorate a day that, for all intent and pu…

• Royally pissed with the King of the Road

  22 March 2011   “BakapuwedengP1000nalang. Walatalagaakongganyangkalakinghalagangpambayad eh. Drayberlangkasi…

• EDSA 25 years after

  24 February 2011 I was at my usual hangout that night. Tipsy and light-headed after downing not a few bottles of Sa…

• Manila's Chinatown revisited

  21 February 2011 Binondo, Ongpin, Chinatown. Call it whatever you want, for many Tsinoys, it is home, as well as …

• Say 'Kiongheehuat Tsai' and other Chinese New Year trivia

  03 February 2011 While not nearly as universal and as widely celebrated as the Western New Year’s Day celebration…

• Our love affair with the Beatles lives on (tho they vowed never to return here)

  18 January 2011 Although not as wildly popular at present as they were in their heyday, the band remains to this d…

• The Vizconde case after 20 years

  08 January 2011 The “massacre” (ever wonder why it’s called a massacre even though the butchery wasn’t exa…