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Where’s he?
June 4, 2026
|Manila Bulletin
If they’re looking for a bald-headed Senator Bato dela Rosa, maybe they should try to imagine what he looks like with a wig?
If they’re looking for a bald-headed Senator Bato dela Rosa, maybe they should try to imagine what he looks like with a wig?
“Bato Bato sa langit
Ang matamaan
Ay huwag magalit.”
That was one nursery rhyme that kids of my generation never outgrew. If it sounds timely today, a hundred years later, you have to think that the missing senator is just as familiar with the words and their meaning.
A rough translation would sound like this: Stone, pebble or rock falling from the sky, don’t let it hurt no matter from how high.
هذه القصة من طبعة June 4, 2026 من Manila Bulletin.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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