Category Archives: General

by Joyne Lavides  TIFF50  Toronto International Film Festival  September 4-14, 2025  Turning 50 in a grandiose domain of showbusiness dredging in elegance,  fame, and pomposity seems fitting for one festival organization that has  auspiciously brought and showcased thousands of films from around the  world to Toronto audiences. Since its inception in 1976, this group’s own  backstory mirrors a… Read More »

Though we are thousands of miles away from the Philippines, we Filipinos, who live in Toronto and elsewhere in Canada, feel as if we have not left our home after all, and the country of our birth. Why? Well, let me tell you how most of us spend our days making a living in this newly adopted country.… Read More »

By: Rodel Ramos  The National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José P. Rizal, was the conscience and intellectual spark of the Philippine nation. His life, works, and death awakened Filipino nationalism and played a pivotal role in the eventual achievement of Philippine independence.  Filipinos in Canada are proud of their national hero, and his legacy will forever live… Read More »

“Time is an eraser leaving the board of consciousness blank. Only chalk marks of thought and feeling remain…Stories and poems are their maker…They are what he thought and felt when he crafted them.” — Teodoro M. Locsin, Trial & Error [Preface]. I wasn’t much of a reader then. But our house would have reading materials such as books… Read More »

Fortune telling is so popular these days because most people want   to know if they would have some success in life — having stable jobs, doing right career moves, making good in their businesses, finding the right married mates and the wishes go on ad infinitum. And to peer into their future, they would usually   consult… Read More »

Ni Edwin Esteba Ang bisyong ito ay walang mabuting maidudulot Sa buhay natin ito ay isang salot Ang pera ng iyong kalaban hindi mo mahahakot Kapag ikaw ay natalo napakalungkot Noong una ako ay tuwang tuwa sa panalo Kaya linggo linggo ako ay nasa casino Akala ko wala nang katapusan ito Pero sunod sunod dumanas ako ng pagkatalo… Read More »

Sarap sa pakiramdam Mawala mga agam agam Iyon bang kailangan nating maglibang Upang sa buhay hindi tayo mahibang Wala na tayong ginawa kung hindi magtrabaho Sarili naman natin dapat inaasikaso Dahil nagkakaedad na tayo Baka ang panahon hindi na pumabor sa iyo Kung sa buong buhay mo ikaw ay abala Hindi inisip na magpakaligaya Baka ngayon ang panahon… Read More »

Many people in Christendom believe that Jesus Christ is our Almighty God who deserves to be worshipped.  By quoting the Holy Scriptures, let us hear Jesus himself explaining to us who he is, whether he deserves to be worshipped, where he came from and his relationship with his Father, Jehovah God. When Jesus was baptized, immediately, Satan tempted… Read More »

“Torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool/Loving both of you is breaking all the rules.” — Lyrics from Torn Between Two Lovers, a song by Mary MacGregor. “What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle.” — Sigmund Freud. Marriage is the total surrender to love, I thought, when I married my… Read More »