Monthly Archives: July 2010

CHILD’S WISHES AND PARENTAL ALIENATION

A teenage son has his way with his father, who is separated from his mother.  The father lavishes the son with material things like an X-Box, BlackBerry and Ipod, expensive clothes and sporting equipment.  When together, father and son spend time playing tennis, roller skating and bicycling.    What child does not want to live with a parent… Read More »

CHILD’S WISHES AND PARENTAL ALIENATION

A teenage son has his way with his father, who is separated from his mother. The father lavishes the son with material things like an X-Box, BlackBerry and Ipod, expensive clothes and sporting equipment. When together, father and son spend time playing tennis, roller skating and bicycling. What child does not want to live with a parent who… Read More »

The problem of having too much or too little

My nephew and his wife had lunch with me and my sister the other day. They helped my sister with some chores. It was not a planned visit and I did not have anything special to serve. I heated the left-over “arroz caldo” that we had for supper the night before and pulled out some “dim sum” from… Read More »

TRIBUTE TO A FATHER

One of the greatest gifts a man can have in his entire life is his father. He is the mentor, the provider, and most of all, a friend who will understand and be there to support us at all times whether we are right or wrong.                                                                                                                                       AVV610               Lucky are those who have their dad… Read More »

The Professional Pickpocket

He was small of built, thin to a point of near emaciation, long bony-faced and with long fragile arms.  His hands with long tapering fingers ideal for playing piano were too big for his small delicate frame.  His coarse tousled hair, burnt complexion, bulging eye, thin aquiline nose, lobed ears, and bushy eyebrows with two ogling eyes underneath… Read More »

The Billion Dollar Show

Is it worth it? I do not know! The final votes are not out yet. As I write this, the show is still going on. In fact, it has just begun. Wait, it has begun quite a while ago but it is reaching its climax in a few days. It appeared small at the beginning, just eight participants… Read More »

IS RP READY FOR BLOCK VOTING?

CHICAGO (JGLi) – The shocking loss of Sen. Manuel “Mar” A. Roxas in the vice presidential election might have left a bad taste in the mouth of everyone, notably incoming President Noynoy Aquino, who did not expect that sometimes in politics anything goes. I don’t buy the alibi that the winning combination of Noy-Bi (Sen. Aquino-Mayor Jejomar Binay)… Read More »

P. NOY !

As you are reading this column, we now have a brand new-Philippine President, Benigno Simeon Aquino or more popularly know as Noynoy, the only son of martyred senator Benigno Aquino and the late democracy Icon Mrs. Corazon Aquino, the first post-Marcos era-president via the historic EDSA Revolution 1 of  1986. Already, he is being addressed as President Noy… Read More »