Cherie Mercado Santos

@flyPAL There’s a lot to be proud of as Asia’s first airline. PAL helped shape early aviation in the region. We have world-class pilots, smooth landings, and some of the friendliest crew. PAL isn’t perfect, but it deserves credit where it’s due.

Hi, Cherie. We appreciate your recognition of our MyPAL Assist Click To Call VoIP option and are glad to know that you found it helpful and convenient. We continuously strive to make it easier for our passengers to connect with our team whenever assistance is needed, and your feedback means a lot to us. Thank you once again for your support and for choosing Philippine Airlines!

You can talk to a real, live Philippine Airlines customer service agent instantly with their Click To Call VoIP option. This is gold in this era of AI. Kudos to @flyPAL! instagram.com/reel/DYDaxWZxU…

WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.

PHILIPPINE EAGLE SPOTTED IN COTABATO A Philippine eagle was spotted in Matalam, Cotabato during the first semestral wildlife monitoring conducted from April 14 to 16, 2026. “The critically endangered raptor was observed preening on a branch of a Ulayan tree before soaring along the forest edges, indicating active use of the mountain’s habitat,” DENR Soccsksargen said. Courtesy: CENRO Matalam/DENR-12 Visit gmanetwork.com/news for more updates

Thank you @philstarlife !

We’re live at 12:30pm EST Link on my FB account facebook.com/share/1FTVSHa6…

Long overdue update: Out For Lunch (show I produce & host) airs weekdays on FilipinoTV for subscribers. Catch live or on-demand via my FB acct. Today: @flyPAL assures flights continue, @TPSOperations strengthens city presence, & we interview author Xavi Lang.

We don’t because we stopped treating art as something that forms the soul, and started treating it as content to be consumed. Edmund Burke warned that a civilization survives not by innovation alone, but by preserving what refines human taste, judgment, and imagination. Hand-drawn animation carried discipline, patience, and a sense of beauty shaped over generations. When that disappears, it’s not just a style that fades. It’s a way of seeing the world.

PHILIPPINE DEER REEMERGES IN MARINDUQUE The Philippine deer (Rusa marianna), once presumed locally extinct after going unseen for decades, has been sighted again across several towns in Marinduque. According to DENR MIMAROPA, recent monitoring recorded multiple sightings within the Marinduque Wildlife Sanctuary, including at least 10 individuals in one area, along with footprints in nearby towns. COURTESY: DENR MIMAROPA/Facebook

Read the joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan on the Strait of Hormuz: pm.gc.ca/en/news/statem…

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time. Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight. The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate. What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field. Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal. We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain. The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours. This bird does 11 days. Without a runway.

"I did not arrive. I may never arrive. But I stayed. I stayed with the people I love. I stayed with values that mattered to me. I stayed with work that felt true, even when it didn’t reward me.” Tony Collins If you’re not living the life you expected: buff.ly/e0EwnVV

This was at 5:15pm. By 9pm we were at ~60cm (~24in) #onstorm

Toronto has been doing a great job with quick snow clearing after the snowstorm yesterday. Plows out early and streets staying passable across the city. ❄️🚜 @oliviachow @Toronto

Everyone should have this at home

Congratulations to all those who passed the 2025 bar exams in the Philippines 🇵🇭 📚⚖️

In the Philippines, the Bar exam is less a test than a shared wager that one person, backed by family sacrifice, can lift the household and still have the authority to fight for the rights of others. facebook.com/share/v/1Df5QW…

Out for Lunch was live yesterday Jan 5, 2026. In simple, layman language, we break down who Nicolás Maduro is, how the arrest unfolded, and what could come next for Venezuela. facebook.com/share/v/1FcZ4N…

Donald Trump wants Venezuela’s oil. But getting it out of the ground could take years and at least $100bn in investment, as The Economist's commodities editor, @MatthieuFavas, explains. Find out why oil companies will be wary of getting involved in the president's plan: econ.st/4sp4EsM

Instead of giving him an IPad ……..