'Oplan Tuli'

Philippine summers are associated with other things aside from heat: mangoes and siniguelas, roadside halo-halo and mais con hielo stands, the rites of Holy Week, the Santacruzan and Flores de Mayo, last but not least, the much-anticipated break between academic school terms. The generation before mine called it “bakasyon grande.” My generation referred to it…

Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth Ocampo
Professor of History

I research, write, teach, and lecture on Philippine history, so that the future will stop reading like the past.

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