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 fury of nature; the backlash of neglect; the anger of hatred; the funny superstition of the pious; the vengeance of retard minds; surviving, moving on, away from reality. These are the article titles that came to mind as I began writing this piece. Instead of just mere words strung together I need paragraphs to flesh out these… Read More »
Yesterday (July 24, 2012) I watched through the internet President Aquino delivered his third SONA before Congress. I am still to figure out why only three days after full media coverage the SONA seemed to have become dead old news. Instead of gloating over or criticizing it, media and the people must have wisely, had moved on to… Read More »
Laughter is best medicine Sometimes a bad joke is a dose for a killing. Yet laughter is the best medicine. I subscribe to this old adage but many don’t for one reason or another. Whether we laugh or not, a little bit of humour would change our sometimes boring or regimented way of life in search of those… Read More »
Bakit si Noynoy ay parang isang bangaw lang . . . Noong 2009 panahon pa lang ng kampanya para maging presidente itinungayaw ni Noynoy sa buong kapuluan ang pundasyon ng plataforma at palakad (policy) ng kanyang administrasyon kapag siya ang nanalo. Sundan dito sa website ng Pangulo ang kanyangang kanyang itinaga sa bato: http://www.gov.ph/about/gov/exec/bsaiii/platform-of-government/ Marami, pero seguro tama… Read More »
“Don’t let me die. Save me.” Joshua Yasay Gangs, gangs, gangs. City bang bang. Deaths, deaths, deaths. The City of Toronto is in shambles. Not yet. But soon. Unless the government and the civil society will join hands in battling the fire of violence and creeping deaths which are spreading like wildfire in Ontario’s capital city. Torontonians still… Read More »
Yesterday (July 24, 2012) I watched through the internet President Aquino delivered his third SONA before Congress. I am still to figure out why only three days after full media coverage the SONA seemed to have become dead old news. Instead of gloating over or criticizing it, media and the people must have wisely, had moved on to… Read More »
Danny my eldest grandson has lived and worked out of New York City for the last two years. In the beginning of March this year we got a call from him asking for help to settle him in Hollywood Hills where is relocating for an indefinite period of time. Part of his contract with Sony Studio is to… Read More »
Member, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) LONDON – As the biggest sporting event in the history of the United Kingdom in 64 years, the Olympic Games is unparalleled in scope and immensity. Budget allocations are in the billions of pounds. The security net… Read More »