Up to now, it is still a puzzle as to who came first the usurer or the borrower. It is probably as puzzling as determining who came first the egg or the chicken. In the barrio during the yesteryears, there was such a userer or “loan shark”. A widow of about fifty with no children, Aling Goreng was… Read More »
Taller and heavier than most of his friends of his age in the quiet barrio, Turing grew up with his younger brother Atoy under the care of their grandparents. No one in the barrio seemed to know the parents of these two boys and their grandparents refused to talk about them. Some said that the parents of the… Read More »
That controversial Hong Kong journalist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines as a “nation of servants “ must be suffering from “historical Alzheimer”. Did he forget that the word “Amah” originated from his country of origin which means, a servant or a nanny ? Today, Filipinos all over the world serving as caregivers or nannies have given the… Read More »
Despite denials by officials and allies of the Arroyo administration, it is becoming obvious that they will move heaven and earth to push through with amending the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is no secret in the House of Representatives that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s son, Rep. Mikey Arroyo, has been making the rounds of congressmen’s offices or meeting with… Read More »
Hello, mga friends in Canada and around the world! Life for me is quite full these days. Schoolbreak season in Philippine schools but Imbes na makapagrelax ang fulltime mommy(that’s me), ano ba’t parang pagud na pagod ako! For sure, it’s not so much the weather coz surprisingly, hindi masyadong maalinsangan ngayon (humid is the English word, I think)… Read More »
“Your heart will tell you that you can’t let it go and that you have to challenge the oppressor.” Pura Velasco, Toronto Star, April 3, 2009 Her face dominated the front page of the Toronto Star on April 3, 2009 as she expressed her jubilation over the announcement that the Ontario Government is going to introduce legislation to… Read More »
“Something is wrong with my husband Doc. I don’t know how to change him. He’s annoying. Is there any way I can change him?” In my practice, I’ve met many people trying to change their partners for whatever reason. They want their partners to change their attitude, their style of communication, their personality. They want others to change… Read More »
Either way you look at the announcements of Philippine House Speaker Prospero Nograles and Rep. Luis Villafuerte that they are resigning their leadership of Lakas and Kampi, respectively, to hasten the merger of the two administration parties, it definitely does not bode well for the opposition in the 2010 presidential elections and in the battle for charter change… Read More »
THE UN-COMFORT ZONE with Robert Wilson In 1907, during a major league baseball game, second base was stolen 13 times by the winning team. The catcher for the losing team, Branch Rickey, was unable to pick off even a single runner. That record stands to this day. It also spelled the end of Rickey’s career as a baseball… Read More »
The world’s foremost experts on global warming gathered in an emergency meeting in Copenhagen last week to warn politicians to act now to minimize the impact of what they described could be ‘irreversible’ climate shifts and hopefully save a world that they said was “on the brink.” The 2,500 scientists from 80 countries who attended the conference warned… Read More »