As Black Friday kicks off a month-long activity of gift-giving and partying, I’m here to reflect on what it means to give and to know ones gift. In giving, the giver feels the joy of the gesture, and the receiver feels the happiness associated with kindness. Both the giver and the receiver of the gifts experience a shared… Read More »
In physics, there is a law called “Newton’s third law” or the “law of conservation of momentum” which basically states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” For example, if you jump from a boat, the force of your jump pushes the boat backwards, or as the bullet is fired from a gun, the… Read More »
MANILA High tension and higher drama gripped the Philippines on the week of Nov. 13-19 as two opposing political sides raced to outwit each other in the continuing saga of one Gloria Arroyo. Mrs. Arroyo has been treading burning coals since leaving office in July 2010 as her successor, President Benigno Aquino III, goes after her for crimes… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – The Maguindanao Massacre happened two years ago on Nov. 23 but apparently the wheels of justice are grinding soooo slowly – nobody has been convicted from the world’s biggest mass murder of journalists in a single event. Meanwhile survivors of 58 massacred victims, 32 of them Filipino media workers are trying to follow the court… Read More »
The timing was suspicious, but the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to order the distribution of some 4,915 hectares of land in what is known as the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac to 6,296 farmer-beneficiaries could not have come at a better time. The decision ended more than 40 years of difficult, often bloody, struggle for the poor… Read More »
If not for Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila de Lima’s insistence to see the official Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from the Supreme Court issued on November 15, 2011, ex-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo could have been relaxing at Costa del Sol in Spain or skiing in the Swiss Alps right now. And if De Lima took the word… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Trust Sen. Miriam Santiago to author bills that stem out from her ‘inis’ with what she seems to regard as ‘sobra na’. Tiempo naman that most of the Philippine public shares her feelings with what both see as ‘kapalaluan’- yun bang over- over and major- major talaga. Hence her bill that is getting to be known as the… Read More »