Filipino cooking just cannot be complete with a “sprinkling” or two of salt. Kare-kare is not as delicious without its partner, bagoong. There seems to be something missing if fried fish is not served with patis, or soy sauce. Aside from contributing saltiness, salt actually enhances other flavours such as sweet, sour, and umami. Furthermore, it disguises the… Read More »
Drugs and medication comes from simple things inside and around our house. All we have to do is know its uses and know when to use it. AVV312 We forgot that drug companies use the basic formulation from the basic things we have in our kitchen, in our gardens, the leaves and fruits from the nearby forest and… Read More »
MANILA The prosecution rested its case on the seventh week of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona after presenting only three of its eight articles of impeachment. But that was not the big news here. The headline news was the confrontation between Sen. Miriam Santiago and a private prosecutor over courtroom behavior. Santiago is a loud,… Read More »
At this time and till the next couple of months, many young people (and some ‘mature’ folks who willed to finish the dream, too) will be cheering after successfully hurdling the challenges of finishing a course, high school, and elementary school. The number of cheerers may double or triple as the graduation occasion is inherently a family affair… Read More »
About two months ago, Filipinos all over the world celebrated their Christmas Eve with Noche Buena and their New Year’s Eve with Media Noche. These special times are celebrated with friends, family, and of course, lots of food! Filipino-Canadians’ tabletops were most likely a fusion of traditional Filipino and Western fares. During my family’s annual Noche Buena feast,… Read More »
President Aquino’s “Daang Matuwid” has taken another crooked turn with the implication of his friend and classmate, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. chief Cristino Naguiat Jr., in a bribery scandal that came to fore when Wynn Resorts filed a lawsuit accusing its former vice chairman Kazuo Okada of paying off Philippine gaming regulators and cheating the casino giant.… Read More »
Did you see that news on television about a research that showed animals laugh? Several animals were used in the study. Among them were orang-utans, penguins and dogs. These animals were tickled and the study reported that there were concrete evidences that they laughed. I imagine that it was not too difficult to conduct the study with dogs.… Read More »
With these words, former president Fidel V. Ramos, then Philippine armed forces chief of staff in 1986 severed his links to his cousin and boss, the powerful president of the Philippines, Ferdinand E.Marcos in that fateful day of February 25,1986. It would later go down in history as Marcos’ last day in his 20-year old dictatorship, and the… Read More »
Recently, Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona’s defense lawyers at his Senate impeachment trial called on the House prosecutors not to associate Corona to former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Well, isn’t that like asking them to disregard that “chief justice” Corona was a creation of Gloria? In fact, “chief justice” Corana’s “birth” was induced during a period that… Read More »
Saying it obliquely is perhaps the most effective, least antagonistic manner to focus attention on some pernicious character traits that plague Filipino individuals and institutions. On Feb. 17, officials in Toronto announced the team-up of the Manila-based network giant ABS-CBN and UGAT (Ugnayan at Tulong para sa Maralitang Pamilya) Foundation in a world-wide search for Filipino organizations that… Read More »