When will there be an end to cancer! …. Yes, this cancer from hell, or is it?
Last night we visited a 14 year old girl-cousin with a spinal bone cancer in one of the city’s prime hospital in Cebu. The private room is clean, cool and new … silence is rather deafening.
The room is dimly lit (the patient wants it [...]
Archive for February, 2009
12 Feb
Cancer from Hell, or is it?
3 Feb
Coincatchers
While on board TransAsia Shipping Lines from Cebu to Iloilo City.
This “banca” (small boat) people, popularly called “coincatchers”, dangerously dangling along the enormous ship is a normal sight. Throw some coins and they’ll dive for it no matter how far the coins are. Some coincatchers, pparticularly the women, use makeshift foldable cloth-catchers, but the daring men dive for it as to put [...]
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