Mabuhay! Mabuhe! EMERALD JUBILEE! Mapa Singko Syete! Mabuhay po kami! Selebrasyon satin kundangan nga kase, Pakiramdam iba kung nasa sarili! *** EMERALD JUBILEE! Translation: Fun! Fun! Fun! Tsikahan! Tawanan! Drama…at iyakan! Jokihan! Kurutan! Kornihan! Asaran! Pakapalan! Facial! Belo! Ingusan! *** Bien – bien! Fifty five years! Mantakin po ninyo! Maluhaluhang sey ni Ronnie Almero! Bagamat ang iba di… Read More »
Noel Copiaco January 16, 2012 As I mentioned in a previous article, many people here in Michigan assumed that I am an American Indian back in 1969. Having long hair and being a little taller than most Asian men in those days, people just assumed so. People called me “chief” almost everywhere even at my (daytime) workplace. In… Read More »
Alahoy! Alahoy! Happy Valentine’s Day! Sa nangagmamahal binabati namin! At sa hindi naman, binabati na rin! Kung hindi mangiti e huwag pilitin! * * * Pusong mapagmahal aliwalas ang mukha! Labing nakababa ala nang panaya! Wagas na pag – ibig di kumakabila! Panung “love you always” kung di nadarama? * * * Hugis nitong puso anupat iisa, Pero… Read More »
By Noel Copiaco, Lansing, MI After passing a civil service exam in 1969, I was offered a job at an engineering firm here in Michigan. It was my first “real” job with a big company. During the first few months at the firm, it amused me that many of my white co-workers assumed that I am an American… Read More »
By Carmencita ‘Ging’ Hernandez What now, Ging? Nothing like a funeral to get people together, a time to see old friends and reacquaint with new ones with you as a centrepiece for conversation. They said you spent your life for others. There were many who visited the website John Flores, Zoraida’s nephew) set up for you. www.tinyurl.com/7gyrtvy or… Read More »
By Ricardo Jorge S. Caluen Word of the passing of Carmencita “Ging” Hernandez last December 6th left the tight circle of activists within the Filipino community—in Ontario, for that matter– in a state of shock. Everyone knew how dynamic a person Ging was. As she lay comatose in her deathbed at Toronto Western General Hospital, life support systems… Read More »
Alahoy! Alahoy! Sang Maligayang Pasko! Tropa ng Kalabit, ang bati sa inyo! Sanman kayo naron sa dako ng mundo, Ang Diwa ng Pasko lagi nang isaulo! * * * Holy Kalungkaling! Doon sa Square One! (Dun sa ‘waiting area’ o sa ‘departure’ man!) Sa Howard Street, sa Scarborough Town! Tsikahan syempre pa! Itong Kapaskuhan! * * * Oka… Read More »
Publisher Pacquiao Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who is also the Congressman from Saranggani, the TV host, the singer, the basketball player, the billiards shark and many more, is taking on a new persona – a media mogul. To start his venture into the communications business, Pacquiao has already established a radio station in General Santos City which… Read More »
The church I belong to recently hosted an interfaith gathering. The subject of the presentations was water, its importance to man and the environment, and how the government takes care of its conservation. The program was arranged by an organization called “Mosaic”. The presentations which lasted for about two and a half hours were in two parts. The… Read More »
THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE PRINCE OF PEACE By Rudy M. Viernes The United Nations is a world organization of independent countries. It celebrates its 66th founding anniversary October this year. It is the precursor of the League of Nations formed in 1920 and formally dissolved in 1946. The UN was founded in 1945 in San Francisco with… Read More »