The good news is that the world did not end in the 2012 winter solstice – December 2012 – as the Mayan predicted it. Thank goodness. The bad news is that we still have to put up with the world problems. It is a mess. Maybe we can petition the Almighty God to stop it as world turns… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Despite the two successive setbacks by Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, Da Pacman has dismissed them as bumps, not end, of the road. I don’t blame him if does not see the setbacks as some kind of Biblical handwritings on the wall. In the book of Daniel Chapter 5, I am sure the Bible-reading Pacman… Read More »
As we were was having our traditional “Noche Buena “ Christmas Eve festive meal of ham, “queso de bola “ roast turkey and other sumptuous goodies, a tinge of guilt suddenly struck me. Here we are amid the comforts of our homes, with family and friends while 13,000 kilometers away in typhoon –ravaged Compostela Valley in Mindanao, a… Read More »
MANILA It’s been a December that will not be easy to forget by Filipinos. A couple of weeks before Christmas, a devastating typhoon leveled many parts of Mindanao in southern Philippines. And a very controversial bill on reproductive health passed through a needle’s eye in the Congress after many months of bitter debate. In sports, international boxing icon… Read More »
HELLO AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, TORONTO! O, let bygones be bygones daw, request ni Sen. Ping Lacson. Bati- bati na tayong lahat, pwede ba? Sen. Lacson, ex- pa-in-law of Jody Sta. Maria of the very sikat ‘Be Careful with my Heart’ tv series wishes to see the end of the divisiveness that characterized the relationship of government and… Read More »
“When will this happen again, Daddy?” This was what a scared seven-year-old kid asked his father several hours after 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, drove to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and shot to death 20 of the kid’s schoolmates and six adults, including the school principal, in another surge of senseless violence… Read More »
Q. Hi Atty , my younger sister, Eva, lived but was not legally adopted by the eldest sister of my mother when she was about two(2) years old. The couple, being childless, considered Eva as their own child. Eva lived with them and sent her to school through college. In 2000, my uncle died. All of the properties… Read More »
With his recent best actor trophy handed during the 55th Asia-Pacific Film Festival for Bwakaw, Eddie Garcia gleams with hope this New Year, 2013. He anticipates accolades to come in Europe filmfests for the same film. And Eddie yearns for another victory. Bwakaw vies for Oscar’s best foreign movie come Oscar’s awards night by February. “If I’d be… Read More »
~ A mix of leaves, twigs, branches and kulms boiled in water resulted in a healthy drink – the bamboo tea, or green tea, as most people know. But the enterprising Filipino farmer had his sights on another by-product, reputedly the very first in North America at least, and possibly the world – the bamboo beer. Yes, the… Read More »