Monthly Archives: March 2010

Villar’s politics of addition

Sen. Manny Villar, being a true Nacionalista Party stalwart, obviously believes in the political philosophy popularized by the late Mr. Nacionalista, Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez who said: “Politics is addition.”               Having set his sight on the presidency for years, Villar picked people from various persuasions and political beliefs to form his ticket for the May presidential elections,… Read More »

Will El Nino spoil RP’s automated elections?

Scenario: Failure of elections On May 10, an historic political exercise will pick the next Philippine president via the first computerized automated election. Hopefully, this will do away with the primitive manual counting of ballots that take days. Weeks or even months before any results are known, a tortuous process that has led to widespread cheating, violence like… Read More »

Victory in Defeat

Wow! What a game!   If you’ve been watching the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on TV for the past two weeks, you should be thrilled by the players’ display of talent, skills, and sportsmanship. Also, you should be inspired by many awesome Canadian Athletes, especially those who have bounced back from defeat.   I’m proud of all the… Read More »

Something sinister about Arroyo ads

There’s more than meets the eye in the two-page advertisements that the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) has been running in three major newspapers in the Philippines heralding the alleged accomplishments of the Arroyo administration in the economy, social development, public works, law and order, job generation, agriculture, energy, environmental protection and digital infrastructure in its nine years in… Read More »

‘sa totoo lang’ – ‘ANG INIT TALAGA!’

Hi, dear readers! Pasakit to leave the comfort of home to do errands outside these days. Summer has officially started in the Philippines and that equates to more intense humidity. I also never imagined that Pinoys can die of heatstroke because, diba nga, sanay tayo sa init at araw? Hindi na po ngayon- newspapers have reported a few… Read More »

Lenten Legacy

Taller and heavier than most of his friends of his age in the quiet barrio, Turing grew up with his younger brother Atoy under the care of their grandparents.  No one in the barrio seemed to know the parents of these two boys and their grandparents refused to talk about them.  Some said that the parents of the… Read More »

Legacies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Where were you that Sunday afternoon when Sidney Crosby shot the puck that declared Canada the Olympic Hockey champions of 2010?  Did you see how Canadians from coast to coast jumped with excitement and joy?  Did you join in the screaming and the singing of the national anthem “O Canada”?           It did not matter whether you were… Read More »

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES

Death is a certainty, all living creatures will come to this end in time, but there is a mysterious and more powerful reason why we come back from the dead.                                                                                                                                                                   AVV310                   Many stories have been told regarding Near-Death-Experience (NDE). Medically, if one’s heart stops beating and the breathing ceases, you are ‘clinically dead’.  After… Read More »