Early Filipinos had strange sex practice

Pigafetta, the Spanish chronicler of Magellan's voyages, cited a strange practice among the Visayans, in common with various other ethnic groups of south-east Asia.

ANCIENT TAGALOG POETRY

PAUNAWA SA BABASA

At kung ikaw ay babasa
Nang hindi magkamali ka
talastasin mong maganda
punto, tilde't, birgulilya.

Who is Vicente Sotto?

"Sotto, Vicente: Attorney-at-Law, Publicist.

Time to reform electoral process

"More than 50 million Filipinos are choosing a new president, vice president, about 300 lawmakers in the two-chamber Congress and more than 17,600 local government positions in the country's first nationwide automated elections on May 10" - says news item. Wow, this is a really gargantuan effort.