Monthly Archives: December 2013
The Philippines: Why We Never Should Have Left
By Bill Jethro Bagunu I was born in Canada, miles away from our native land of the Philippines. Compared to my cousins back home, I grew up in great privilege and took the blessings I had here for granted. Truthfully when growing up, I never really cared much for the Philippines. I adopted Canadian culture despite my parents’… Read More »
Goodbye to the Turmoils of 2013-
I am writing by the window to get some light. We have power outage here in Thornhill. IT started at about nine on Saturday and it is already eleven in the morning Sunday and electricity is not back. Is this the last storm of the year? I wonder!. There are nine more days left. I woke up this… Read More »
A distant Christmas
For Filipinos who have been outside of the Philippines for years, Christmas is both a time for rejoicing and a time for remembering. Even as the Filipino in America begins to feel the holiday mood immediately after Thanksgiving when people start shopping for gifts and Christmas decors, he feels at the same time a longing for home. For… Read More »
San Miguel de Allende Mexico
Travelogue by Mercy Maliglig The municipality is located in the eastern part of the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexio, 274 kilometres from Mexico City. To get to San Miguel, one has to fly to Mexico City International Airport and catch another flight to Queretaro Airport. Most foreign residents are retirees from the United States and Canada, attracted… Read More »
Sa Paskong darating Luha ay pahirin!
Tara! Sama – sama! Kabayan isalba! Tulong – tulong! Tara! Bago mahuli pa! Ibukas ang palad! Awa ilawit na! Sa mga biktima ng bagyong Yolanda! *** Anak ng Kalikoy! Dito ang Pinoycom, Di nagagtubili sa pagbigay – tulong! Naryan ang FCT, kaagad umaksyon! At ibat iba pang mga asosasyon! *** Nepu, grupo – grupo, mula sa Square One!… Read More »
2014 FORECAST
Vibration is once again so high and psychics and seers are again asked by people what are the things we will expect and adjustment that we will be doing to have a wonderful year of 2014. Once again the coming New Year starts with a year-ender reading and forecast from psychic vibrations of things that will happen in… Read More »
END THE VICIOUS, NOT THE VIRTUOUS CYCLE
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein CHICAGO (jFAXX) – In 2009, the Philippine government came up with a scheme on how to avoid a mega-disaster comparable, if not worse than super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). It was supposed to be replicated nationwide in various cities and towns all over… Read More »
Somebody stole the Filipinos’ Christmas.
There’s no doubt that we Filipinos celebrate Christmas the longest in the whole world. It’s the only holiday, except Valentine’s Day, when we go all out. And Valentine’s is only for one day. Our Christmas day is for four months. We pull all the stops when it comes to celebrating Christmas. We put on all the lights our… Read More »
Being deprived of House and Lot
Q.Hello Attorney, how are you? We always read your article in Balita Newspaper . We would like to seek your opinion or advice regarding our real property in the Philippines. We have acquired a property in 1977, but immigrated to Canada in 1987, without disposing of our house & lot. My brother lived there for a while from… Read More »