November 12, 2024
BENECO Election Postponement
City High Years
National Geographic
MCO Regrets
Why Titanic Mania Lives
Willy’s Jeep
Titan
Titan Minisub
Hope Never Surrenders
One Question, One Member, One Vote
Slowly and Steadily
“Alice in Wonderland”
Magalong and MSL
Writing in the Dark
BENECO District Elections 2023
Vindication
The Rise and Fall of ECMCO United
“MSL is my GM”
General Membership
No Substitute for Elections
Evidentiary “MCO SELFIE”
Empowering the BENECO MCO
NEA’s Conceptual Hook
The BENECO Surrender 2
Legal Post Classifications
BENECO Controversy Topics
The BENECO Surrender
A photograph speaks a million words
Conversion and Privatization
Explore Baguio with a Bike
Failure of AI
Preserving CJH
Skating Rink
NEA’s Hiring Process
BgCur
Camp John Hay Nostalgia
Camp John Hay Mile High Memories
NEA’s Mandate
Camp John Hay TV
NEA and BENECO Should Come Clean
John Hay’s Top Soil
Big Screens at John Hay
The Browning of Camp John Hay
Putin
The Beginning of the Age of Brainwashing
Baguio shouldn’t build skyscrapers
The MURDER of pine trees goes unabated
We were “toy soldiers” in 1979
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Baguio City, Philippines
2021
Oct
31

S1L5

S1L5 – NEA is Applying the Doctrine of “Presumption of Regularity” Totally wrong January (Bar Exam) is just around the corner. We have very little time to cram as much information as we can into our law students’ heads. So for those

2021
Oct
30

S1L4

S1L4 – The Failure of Diligence of PNB over BENECO’s Money This is for my law students preparing for the Bar. This is on Banking Laws and Procedures (Debit Transactions): QUESTION: Can BENECO recover the one million pesos withdrawn from its account

2021
Oct
29

S1L3

S1L3 – Senate Probe of NEA will expose its Derelect Relevance So there’s going to be a Senate investigation into this worsening anarchy that the National Electrification Administration (NEA) is fomenting in Baguio and Benguet in its hungry grab for BENECO. When

2021
Oct
29

S1L2

S1L2 – NEA’s red-tagging strategy will backfire and spook the business community Everyone in Baguio should be alarmed by the red-tagging strategy that NEA has unwisely decided to include in its arsenal of weapons against BENECO. The business community, in particular, should

2021
Oct
29

S1L1

S1L1 – How the “Rule of Law” is perverted mimics a pro-wrestling match The best way to understand how the “rule of law” is perverted is to watch any professional wrestling match on YouTube. Pick any match where the two opponents wear

2021
Oct
26

PSF50

Pre-Semester Frontier Post 50 (Facebook’s “Artificial Intelligence” Failing to Protect MCO Accounts) Artificial intelligence” (AI) is another one of those contradiction in terms you will inevitably have the pure annoyance of running into these days. All social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,

2021
Oct
25

PSF49

Pre-Semester Frontier Post 49 Persona non grata” literally translates to “an unwelcome person” in Latin. It’s not a crime, so it has no penalty. It’s neither a judgment nor a decision handed down by a court, so it cannot be executed. It

2021
Oct
23

PSNL48

“Dura Lex Sed Lex”Pre-Semester Non-classroom Lecture 48 Laws would be meaningless without courts. Laws tell you what your rights are. But your rights end where my rights begin. It is the court that draws the line between us. Without that clear separating

2021
Oct
23

PSF 47

Why Baguio and Benguet people resent NEA’s High-handednessPre-Semester Frontier Post 47 There’s an underlying reason why the brazen attempt of NEA to takeover BENECO is generating so much public outrage, helping galvanize opposition to what many see as a naked power grab—no

2021
Oct
22

PSNLA 46

A Day that will life in Infamy for NEAPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 46 That shameful blitzkrieg carried out by NEA in South Drive on October 18, 2021 was not just a shortlived takeover of BENECO’s premises. It was the beginning of a long

2021
Oct
22

PSNLA 45

PNB has reasons to be worriedPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 45 If I were PNB Baguio I would be afraid. I would be VERY afraid. They allowed a third party to withdraw ONE MILLION PESOS from an account of a depositor—BENECO—without even informing the

2021
Oct
21

PSNLA 44

NEA’s Golden Girl May be Highly-achieved, but she’s still UNQUALIFIEDPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 44 Qualification is a tricky issue. To run for President of the Philippines, you must be at least 40 years old, natural-born Filipino, able to read and write, a registered

2021
Oct
20

PSNLA 43

Why it’s crucial for BENECO to elect fresh officers or renew office termsPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 43 Back in those days of my pathetic attempts to go to the gym, one of the guys wore a shirt that said “Your workout is my

2021
Oct
18

PSNLA 42

No one can afford to be in the sidelines in this BENECO fight, jwhen just being counted is enoughPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 42 Someone asked me today, “what can I do about this BENECO crisis, especially now that men with guns are involved?”

2021
Oct
18

PSNLA 41

What even a little girl can do to help BENECOPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 41 Tito, I feel so helpless and so little, so insignificant. I’m just a kid. What can I do?” Katherine, you’re 14 but you’re not playing computer games. Instead you’re

2021
Oct
18

PSNCL 40

Why Turning South Drive into a Hamlet is UNCONSTITUTIONALPre-Semester Non-classroom Lecture 40 This is for my law students preparing for the Bar (but, of course, since it’s a public post all are welcome to read it) A WARRANT—whether it be to effect

2021
Oct
18

PSNLA 39

Deputizing the PNP to execute a NON-JUDICIAL or NON-QUASI JUDICIAL ORDER is just PLAIN WRONGPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 39 It might be the last straw to break the camel’s back. Throwing South Drive into a military hamlet sent a blood-curdling message down the

2021
Oct
17

PSNLA 38

Why NEA CANNOT just fire anybody in BENECO by mere publication Pre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 38 Again this is for my law students preparing for the Bar—and everyone else out there who are in denial of the fact that they are good enough

2021
Oct
14

PSNLA 37

I think NEA will try to seize BENECO by Fake People PowerPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 37 In this day and age of social media channeling heightened public awareness, public opinion is no longer an abstract factor in policy formulation. There remain a few

2021
Oct
13

PSNCL 36

NEA Cannot use the PNP to perform its rulemaking powers, only it’s adjudicating powerPre-Semester Non-classroom Lecture 36 The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is skating on really very thin ice, if it insists on its handpicked general manager for BENECO. Can NEA use

2021
Oct
13

PSNCL 35

NEA validly serving an invalid Order doesn’t make the Order validPre-Semester Non-classroom Lecture 35 My bad, I forget to mention that some of my posts are really intended for our law students that we still can’t meet face-to-face. Even bar review is

2021
Oct
12

PSNLA 34

As an ordinary consumer, Laarni Ilagan and BENECO make me proudPre-Semester Non-Lecture Analysis 34 I waited three days before going public on Facebook with my minor gripe about still not having electricity despite the storm being over. At 6:30 AM, well over