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After devoting more than 30 years to daily newspaper editing (as Lifestyle editor) and a decade to magazine publishing (as editorial director and general manager), she now wants to focus on writing—she hopes.
    Finally, Budji holds first exhibit: <br> ‘Art is my sense of quiet’
    Persona
    September 10, 2021

    Finally, Budji holds first exhibit:
    ‘Art is my sense of quiet’

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    ‘Sabongero’ (acrylic, 2021) is the final result on the canvas Budji has painted over through the years until he made the swift…
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    My last chat with Raymund Isaac: <br> When the storyteller’s story ends
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    September 6, 2021

    My last chat with Raymund Isaac:
    When the storyteller’s story ends

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    It feels like we’re in a long, long dark night without the promise of dawn, and we dread who will be taken away from us in the dead of…
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    So now, etiquette for the vaccinated <br>and the not vaccinated
    Commentary
    July 29, 2021

    So now, etiquette for the vaccinated
    and the not vaccinated

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    Getting jabbed was rather uneventful for me, thank God. This was last May, when, upon an early morning tip-off from a friend at SM, I just…
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    Dear Noy
    PersonaVideo
    July 20, 2021

    Dear Noy

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    On his last year in office, students visit Aquino and swarm around him for a selfie that surprises a president not at home in social media.
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    How Mark 'Jappy' Gonzalez continues <br> to disrupt—and why
    Art/Style/Travel DiariesStyleVideo
    July 5, 2021

    How Mark 'Jappy' Gonzalez continues
    to disrupt—and why

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    If there’s the road less traveled in Philippine fashion retail, that’s the one Mark “Jappy” Gonzalez has been taking. He’s done it…
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    Aquino legacy: Democracy <br> and stability–warts and all
    Persona
    July 1, 2021

    Aquino legacy: Democracy
    and stability–warts and all

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    Aquino, shortly after his term ended in 2016, with high school students of St. Theresa’s College, where he answered questions from the…
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    Loose Thoughts, Loose Talk
    June 29, 2021

    PNoy on the pigsty that is politics

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    “Pag patuloy nating binababoy ang pulitika, pag umupo ang pulitiko, baboy na talaga siya (If we continue to turn politics into a pigsty…
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    Noynoy: 'Now, leave some to God'
    PersonaVideo
    June 25, 2021

    Noynoy: 'Now, leave some to God'

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    In 2012, President Aquino arriving at Rockwell Tent for the book launch of Thelma San Juan, being greeted by the author (middle), Inquirer…
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    Paris when it sizzled
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    June 21, 2021

    Paris when it sizzled

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    The last time I saw Paris must have been around the same last time many others saw places other than their own, for it was in February 2020…
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    Cha Eun Woo: ‘Happiness <br> is not without stress…’
    Passions and Obsessions
    June 11, 2021

    Cha Eun Woo: ‘Happiness
    is not without stress…’

    By Thelma Sioson San Juan
    Thank God for stress unrelated to illness or death, and arising only—only—from bad internet connection. “This site can’t be…
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