“I want people to think of me as a person, not a personality” Michael Jackson Organizers of the Michael Jackson Memorial held July 7, 2009, were nervous. Would it be mourning or a celebration? Would the crowd be uncontrollable? One and a half million applied for a ticket to attend; the venue could only accommodate twenty thousand. There… Read More »
It seems it is all-systems go for the automation of elections in the Philippines. For a while, it seemed the Commission on Elections would have to revert to the decades-old manual voting system when the Philippine partner in the joint venture that won the poll automation bidding said it was withdrawing from the venture because of some internal… Read More »
MID-YEAR FORECAST 2009 VIBES AND VISION by Anthony Vivero Daily Tribune- Monday, June 29, 2009 The future is pre-destined and yet our free will is more powerful than destiny. The bad can turn out good or it can get worse. The good can turn bad or be better. It is up to the person concerned how he will… Read More »
Something’s sneaky about recent developments in the Philippines – the visits of two senior US officials, the radical proposal of Malacanang’s top security adviser for a revolutionary government, the sudden departure to the US of Interior Secretary Ronnie Puno and the subsequent naming of retired PNP chief Gen. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. as OIC of Puno’s department, the bomb… Read More »
The eerie similarity between the events that led to the ouster of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya and the events leading to the May 2010 elections in the Philippines should serve as a warning to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to back off from any plan to remain in power beyond her constitutionally mandated term. Zelaya was seized by soldiers and… Read More »
One of the most ancient methods of preserving food was smoking. Due to the absence of refrigeration, protein foods had to be preserved like fish and meat in excess of the home requirements, and for the rainy weather ahead. This is the story of an “umbuyan” or fish smoking house worker during the years before the Pacific War… Read More »
The plot is beginning to unravel. After all the denials that the moves to amend the 1987 Philippine Constitution is being done to suit the hidden agenda of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, it is now becoming clear that the charter change (cha-cha) initiatives, begun as early as 2006, had just one goal in mind — to keep Arroyo in… Read More »
On January 31, 1987, I put to bed the last issue of the Philippines Daily Express as its last managing editor. Almost a year earlier, the revolutionary government of President Corazon Aquino had sequestered the daily newspaper, which was owned by Marcos crony Roberto S. Benedicto and widely perceived as the mouthpiece of the Marcos regime. Immediately upon… Read More »
Who are the persons behind the disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the two Filipina nannies formerly employed by the family of Brampton MP Ruby Dhalla? The two caregivers, Magdalena Gordo and Richelyn Tongson, accused Dhalla of alleged maltreatment among others and of confiscating their passports during their work stint with the MP from Brampton. Dhalla has since denied… Read More »
EFFECTIVE DAILY RITUALS VIBES AND VISION by Anthony Vivero DAILY TRIBUNE – Monday, June 1, 2009 Believe in rituals – our daily habit that are done as and with rituals becomes more effective, turns positive and the effects do last longer. Rituals and ceremonies are parts of our human nature. Why not do it for prosperity! AVV409 Successful… Read More »