The Philippine Online Chronicles

Articles by Rolando Lampa

• Amazing TnT story: Becoming legal

  17 February 2012 Just before Christmas two years previously, Pareng Mando lost his job. No fault of his actually; i…

• Barbecue conversations

  07 November 2011 This is what they said - Oy, balik ka na pala. Kelan ka pa dumating? Kumusta sa Pilipinas? N…

• Cry-cry culture

  01 October 2011 The background is just to highlight how steeped I was in the office culture that my own generati…

• Respite in a time of grief

  02 September 2011   And then there’s the lonely plane ride to Manila, your mind blank but unable to sleep, ey…

• The loneliness of the disconnected

  01 August 2011 But it did happen. Could happen again, too. In the last decade of her life, Mrs. Wood had been dis…

• My father's belen - Part 2

  18 December 2010 And tale by tale, bit by bit, the feedback came back.  Pasado po iyong anak ko. May anak na kamin…

• My father's belen - Part 1

  17 December 2010     I remember that the early belens were cut-out folding stuff made of carton. The star of …

• Of mouse and men (The uninvited guest)

  01 December 2010 …

• Nostalgia trip: Come back, Shane, I love you

  09 October 2010 But really, how could people live without radio? It ruled our lives, it told us the time, the weat…

• The boat people I met in Australia: The story of Ba

  20 August 2010 But there were two guys in my first office who were different from the others.  They were Vietnam…