Monthly Archives: February 2014

Headaches and Heartaches at Sochi 2014 Olympics

This is by far the most costly Olympics ever – about fifty billion dollars! The preparation started seven years ago. At the time of the opening, there were hotel rooms that were not completed, unclean water was coming out of some faucets and guests who reserved rooms a long time ago found their accommodations occupied by other people.… Read More »

Curb corruption and farmers will produce

After boasting that the country will be self-sufficient in rice by 2013 and a rice exporter by 2014, it appears the Aquino administration is admitting failure and is giving up on these lofty goals. Malacanang announced last week that it was shifting its focus from attaining rice self-sufficiency to the farming of alternative, high-value crops such as pineapple,… Read More »

ABS-CBN STILL WELCOMES VHONG; GMA-7 NOT BIASED ON HIS CASE

Through the business unit head of It’s Showtime Reily Santiago (brother of Randy, Raymart and Rowell Santiago), he discarded talks that Vhong Navarro would no longer be accommodated in the said program, out of his alleged rape case, mauling incident. “It’s Vhong’s personal battle but ABS-CBN management, its showtime will welcome him if he’s ready to go back… Read More »

PARTIHAN NG MANA AT KARAPATAN PANGALAWANG ASAWA

Q. Hello Atty Wong . Ito po ay tungkol sa problema naming magkakapatid sa naiwang lupain ng aming yumaong ama. Minana po ng aming ama ang mga lupaing ito sa kanyang mga magulang at ng mag-asawa siyang muli ay nakalagay sa titulo ang pangalan ng second wife niya. Tama po ba yon when hindi naman conjugal property nila… Read More »

Imelda exploits Gloria’s situation for cheap points

Imelda Marcos calls Gloria Arroyo’s continued hospital arrest “cruel, unjust and inhuman.” Look who’s talking. Mrs. Marcos adds that when President Aquino’s father, Ninoy, was the one incarcerated during martial law, her husband Ferdinand approved a trip to the United States so Ninoy could seek medical attention for his ailing heart. So why doesn’t the current president allow… Read More »

Obama’s call springs Fil-ams to act on TPS

“Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero” (Seize the day, put little trust in tomorrow (future). – Odes Latin Poet Horace CHICAGO, Illinois (FAXXNA/jGLi) – When President Barack Obama mentioned the U.S. disaster relief in the Philippines during his State of the Union address last Tuesday (Jan. 28), it moved a gritty bunch of Filipino American leaders into action.… Read More »

HELLO TORONTO!

Last February 5, the territory of Hongkong shall have begun the first of what it says is a series of sanctions for the Philippines that is expected to ‘convince’ the Philippine President to announce this country’s apology for the Luneta hostage- taking incident of 2010 that killed 8 Hongkong nationals and hurt 7 more, also from that Chinese… Read More »

‘Sorry bridges the gap’

When Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was caught in a storm of protests on June 27, 2005 following the Hello Garci scandal, wherein she was taped talking to Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano about election results in Mindanao, she addressed the people to say “I… am… sorry” in a melodramatic tone. Nobody probably believed she was indeed sorry for… Read More »