Monthly Archives: November 2011

Six Strategies on Preventing Unpleasant Confrontation (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the first three strategies in preventing unnecessary, draining, stressful, and time-consuming confrontation. As mentioned, unfriendly encounter can happen at a time and place when we least expect it. It’s vital to know and carry out some basic strategies: First, expect it to happen; second, choose your strategy; and third, be… Read More »

Pacquiao needs a different focus

I know that many people have been doing some Monday morning quarterbacking on the lackluster victory of Manny Pacquiao over Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez. But I’ve been doing this for many years, and it’s not the time to stop now. There is no doubt in my mind that Pacquiao won the fight, although not as convincingly as he… Read More »

OPTIONS OF DESPERATE WIFE

Q. Good day to you. Just call me M. Sometime is September 2004, I got married to a Canadian. He is based in Hamilton, Ontario. He came to our place in Cebu and we got married there. Our marriage was a fruitful years of courtship through the internet and email. The arrangement I had with my husband was… Read More »

“CUT THE LOSSES,” LET GMA GO!

CHICAGO (jGLi) – I really do not blame President Noynoy Aquino if he is too slow in allowing his predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), to leave the Philippines to consult the medical doctor of her choice to treat her ailment. Mrs. Arroyo is being charged with six plunder charges. A plunder charge means that Arroyo personally amassed at… Read More »

Ten Years Old and Growing

Philippine Press Club-Ontario was established in December 17, 2001. This year, 2011, it turns ten. Before PPCO, the Filipino community had seen a robust media presence for at least 30 years in the GTA. However, there never was a media organization that existed in Ontario during those years. It is not far-fetched to say that PPCO is the… Read More »

Of compassion and justice

One would think someone who is no longer in power would be less arrogant. But such is not the case with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Instead of continuing to plead for compassion so that the government would finally allow her to travel abroad supposedly for medical treatment of a rare bone disease, her spokesperson is now threatening to bring… Read More »

“Pagtitiwala”

I came across a segment of “60 minutes” several weeks ago wherein the wife and the son of Bernie Madoff were being interviewed. The wife revealed that the amount her husband defrauded from investors was about $67 billion dollars. Sixty seven billions? What can $67b buy? What did one person who it appears kept the secret of this… Read More »

Dole-out or fall-out?

I can understand why the Aquino administration allocated P39 billion for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) to be doled out to 2.3 million poor households. But to give P5 million to Muslim rebels and another P31 million to the dreaded Alex Boncayao Brigade is beyond reason. What is President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III up to? What did he… Read More »