Mar Roxas

Senator Roxas launched this blog and talked about a Virtual Rally against VAT on oil products during his blogger meet-up last week held at Annabel’s Restaurant in Tomas Morato. The Virtual Rally is a petition website that allows you to put an online avatar on a “cyber EDSA”. We’d like to invite everyone to join [...]

Last August 1, 2008, we had a casual dinner meeting for Senator Roxas and several Philippine bloggers. There was a good mix of bloggers from various niches - politics, tech, consumer products, personal, and even animal rights. The meeting was set for 5:00PM-6:00PM at Annabel’s Restaurant along Tomas Morato, Quezon City. To say that the [...]

He called me on a lazy day. “Don’t make any decision about your life until you’ve talked to me.” It was a few weeks after I resigned from the Office of the President as Undersecretary. I never had the chance to say that my first decision was to stay clear of politics for the meantime.
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Yes, he does take the MRT.

I mean, bakit hindi, di ba. Doesn’t matter if he’s a multi-millionaire, or if he’s a senator. Walang kinikilala ang trapik– not unless willing kang mag-helicopter araw-araw galing Cubao papuntang Senado, sa CCP. Pero di naman ganu’n si Boss, e, wala siyang ganu’ng star complex. E kung ‘yung wang-wang nga [...]

“Daw natangis ako sa makaluluoy nga sitwasyon nga nakita ko.” This was Senator Mar Roxas speaking in his native Ilonggo. I don’t speak Ilonggo, but to see him like this– grim and visibly in pain and from time to time shaking his head at the sights before us– I feel like I know exactly what [...]