CHICAGO (jGLi) – How do you feel if a teacher gives you an assignment while you are in a time-out room? You might grudgingly agree. After all, the teacher will not really be able to find out if you are doing your “roomwork” or not. Your only problem: the teacher had installed a monitoring camera that would record… Read More »
Did you know that the landing on the moon of Apollo 11, July 1969 coincided with the finals of the Miss Universe tilt held in the United States? Thus, the first query thrown by the late astronaut Neil Armstrong while in his spaceship was what’s the latest on earth? The reply was, “for the first time a Filipina… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Fifteen Filipinos, who became victims of labor trafficking to Florida, are going to appear before the Eastern District court of New York at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York on Monday, Sept. 24, according to a press release from the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), U.S. Northeast in New York. NAFCON urged its… Read More »
Everybody waits for the miracle. But the truth is all of us are a symbol of miracle for others. The right moment and opportunity will come although some may act properly while others may not. AVV912 There are a lot of people who ask for a miracle and wasted all their precious time on… Read More »
Did you come across that comic strip in the Saturday Star just last week? Two characters were conversing. One was surprised to see the other. “I thought you were in Boston to visit you parents,” one of them remarked. The other narrated what happened to him.” “I went to the airport for my flight to Boston,” he began.… Read More »
The brouhaha over an alleged attempt by DILG Undersecretary Rico E. Puno to enter the condominium unit of the late DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo on the very first day the latter went missing after a plane crash couldn’t have come at a worse time for Puno’s shooting buddy and benefactor President Noynoy Aquino. Aquino didn’t even have… Read More »
By Lee Lagda Guest Writer A few years ago, I wrote to Professor Patricia Callasan of Pamantasan Ng Lungsod Ng Maynila (literally, University of Manila) and a University of the Philippines classmate of mine. She is a very good friend who now calls France home. I wrote her of both bitter and sweet memories “that somehow… Read More »
After two years in office President Noynoy it is hoped, have already realized that the problems of the country as if imbued with an unstoppable dynamic force continue to interlink, to meld and weld in increasing numbers, in increasing strength, and as a defiant force to constitute a dilemma impossible to solve during his remaining four years in… Read More »
The appointment of two Liberal Party stalwarts to highly sensitive Cabinet posts signals the start of a three-year long campaign of President Aquino’s party to hold on to Malacanang for six more years after Aquino’s term expires in 2016. Last week, Aquino named LP president Mar Roxas, his running mate in the 2010 elections, as head of… Read More »