Where is Christmas?
Everybody in this world needs Christmas. It is the holiday that brightens the end of the year and helps lift up the spirit burdened by all the sad and sometimes horrific events of the earlier months. After Halloween, by the first of November, hints of Christmas would be on the air. Yuletide decorations start to appear on window… Read More »
THE AFTERMATH OF A DISASTER
Events do happen, good and bad. We know God has a reason but man’s nature of attachment destroy man’s capacity to learn the lesson in everything that happened in our lives. AVV1212 When everyone is looking forward to the most wonderful season of the year, tragedy strucks almost every year. Some incidents are so near to Christmas day… Read More »
OBAMA WANTS FRIENDS CLOSE, ENEMIES CLOSER
CHICAGO (jGLi) – In his first official act following his re-election, President Obama decided to visit Thailand, Cambodia and Burma. This gesture of Mr. Obama of excluding the Philippines from his itinerary has confounded political opinion makers in Manila. There is no doubt the Philippines is the U.S.’s oldest ally in the region when it became part of… Read More »
The irony of Christmas
MANILA The irony of Christmas is that while it’s the happiest time of the year, it can be the loneliest for many people. The suicide rate in some countries rises during the holiday season. Filipinos love Christmas. After New Year’s, Filipinos can’t wait until its Christmas again. The countdown to December 25 begins immediately on January 2. This… Read More »
Hang those gloves
I hate to disappoint many Filipino boxing fans. It wasn’t a lucky punch from Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez that viciously floored boxing icon Manny Pacquiao on his face to the canvas in the sixth round of their fourth match in Las Vegas last Saturday. It was a calculated punch that some boxing experts described as the “perfect punch.”… Read More »
Pablo’s deadly aftermath: TRAGEDY IN THE VALLEY
It will be a bleak and traumatic Christmas for most of the victims of super typhoon “Pablo “(code named Botha) in Eastern Mindanao. As of latest count, there are at least 700 dead and 800 more missing in the aftermath of the most deadly and strongest storm ever to hit Mindanao in decades. The death toll could easily… Read More »
ROSARY & SONGS, MANNY’S SECRET WEAPONS
CHICAGO (jGLi) – If Manny Pacquiao would not suffer brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder from the devastating right straight he absorbed from Juan Miguel Marquez, by all means, let him go back to the ring if he feels he still has what it takes to win. But he would need to go back to some of his… Read More »
Liability of Guarantor
Q.Back home about five(5) years ago, I helped a close family friend to obtain a loan from a lending company. I wrote a letter to this lending company who happened to be owned and managed by my compadre. I am not sure whether what I did was a form of guaranty. However, this letter made reference to the… Read More »