Long Story Short by Adelle Chua
Presscon season
IT’S that time of the year again. I refer to the annual Schools Press Conference organized by the Department of...
A horror story
I WOULD like to testify in Congress. It was me in the sex video. These are the words that have...
Making sense of millennials
We of a certain age speak of those younger than us disdainfully, sometimes. We say, these kids never had it...
Matters of consequence
EARLIER this month, American bank Wells Fargo got into some trouble for running an advertisement for its Teen Financial Education...
Our state of mind
Imagine having to be in Makati at 10 in the morning, at the latest, every day, and imagine having to...
Sendoffs and symphonies
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD violinist Adrian Nicolas Ong is leaving today. He is starting tenth grade and spending the next three years as...
Leisure
In a recent Facebook post, I conducted a poll by asking friends what they would do if they had just...
Careful what you wish for
WE GRIPE about how the word “change” seems to have lost its meaning. For many years—across generations, actually—our politicians have...
A launderer’s tale
First, pick a day. If you can, try to stay away from weekends and holidays. The laundromat is guaranteed to...
Retiring the chase
Ten years ago I began a column which I called Chasing Happy. I did not have to agonize about that...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.