I write this not in anger alone, but in love of country. I am a Filipino who still believes this nation deserves better. Yet every sunrise feels heavier, because corruption has learned to wear a barong and smile for the camera. From bottom to top, and from top to bottom, the rot runs deep. Not […]

07 December 2025, from Gems Molina: Dear Fellow Phase 678 Lot Owners: Yesterday, Phase 678 once again proved how a principled, united, and courageous community can make a difference for AFPOVAI — when it decides as one. Challenged in the last week of November 2025 to undertake special elections within only 30 days of notice […]

14 November 2025, from Emmanuel A. Hernandez ‘73: Can we please share to anybody? In 1965, President Diosdado Macapagal issued Proclamation 461. It removed a huge piece of land from Fort Bonifacio and declared it: Alienable and Disposable — for AFP officers and soldiers who served the country. Meaning: • The land is no longer […]

THE CITY BUILDER By Arnel Casanova October 21, 2025 Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. SINCE the government started the privatization and development of Fort Bonifacio into what is now the Bonifacio Global City, unscrupulous parties in cahoots with corrupt government officials have been engaged in countless and fraudulent land claims and sales […]

11 October 2025, from Gems: Chairman’s Report 2024-2025Annual General Membership AssemblySocial Hall, Villamor Air Base Golf Course, Pasay City Amenities… I would like to thank each one of you for coming out today and once more honoring our cause with your presence – in person and online. Last time we gathered, we were numbered over […]

Easter Sunday from Gems: Dear Fellow Phase 678 Lot Owners: Yesterday I watched Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. Accustomed to blood and gore and long familiar with the plot, I didn’t think something could still move me. But it happened to this 63-year old senior citizen.  In the climax, right after Longinus pierced […]

Attendance and Quorum Total MIGs – 251 Actually Present – 42 Virtual – 94 Total Members Present – 136   Quorum: (50 +1 or 51% of the Total MIGs) 251/2 = 125.5 + 1 = 126.5 Result of Election Guerzon, Vicente Jr.      –   73 / 98%  Molina, Guillermo Jr. II  –   […]

05 September 2024, from Gems: Thank you for all your greetings, sirs. Been on the road since 3 a.m. today. Just paid homage to Our Lady of Penafrancia here in Naga enroute to Daraga to visit my ailing mom. For me, there is no event more special than coming back home, returning to my roots, […]

01 September 2024, from Gems: Dear Fellow Lot Owners: In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve just entered September, our AFPOVAI month of elections. The mother board has announced that the AFPOVAI BOD elections will be held on 28 September 2024, where we have decided to field our own candidate to the Board, Director Cesar Mancao, […]

Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to … 14th–century friar William of Ockham that says that “if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.” 10 October 2023, from Emmanuel Hernandez: Kasi naman sir Beda eh ang solution simple lang according to Occam’s rule. “Occam’s Razor, […]