The greatest healer that walked on earth is too unconventional yet so effective. He made dead people rise up from their death. He symbolizes the epitome of hope; in Him nothing is lost until one says so. AVV412 I am impressed and amazed of the power of healers. The miracle and the good it brings on man. But… Read More »
Filipinos love sweets! Some of my personal favourites are biko and leche flan. These memorable for me because of their sugary, palatable taste. Sweet foods have a reputation of being high in calories but yet so irresistible that you can’t just have one bite! For several decades now, food scientists and researchers have come up with other ways… Read More »
Those islets and shoals west of the Philippines have again come to the limelight with Philippine and Chinese vessels engaging in a battle of nerves over what both the Philippines and China claim to be their territories. The standoff began on April 8 when a Philippine Navy surveillance aircraft monitored eight Chinese fishing vessels anchored inside the Bajo… Read More »
It may not be so apparent but President Aquino is under siege from many sides. Observer wonders if he’ll survive for long. A reformist president will attract opposition, some virulent, sooner or later. Mr. Aquino ran under the banner of a crusade to clean up government, identify past plunderers and lock them up for a long time. Already… Read More »
”The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” — Dick the Butcher in ”Henry VI,” Part II, act IV, Scene II, Line 73 of William Shakespeare CHICAGO (jGLi) – There are only very few Filipino American lawyers in the Chicago, Illinois community. But at the rate community lawyers are conducting their practice, this legal profession might… Read More »
I grew up in Pangasinan, in beautiful town of Lingayen, graduating in physiotherapy from Virgin Milagrosa University. But these days, I run a physiotherapy clinic in Toronto at St. Clair and Dufferin. I have learned so much about accident recovery, chronic pain – and what my patients really want. In this column I look forward to sharing my… Read More »
It is scandalous. It is hypocritical. While Canadians hype themselves as being tolerant, humane, gentle and polite people, the opposite happens in ice hockey, bandied and glorified as Canada’s national sport. It spurts blood! The Wikipedia says violence has been with ice hockey since the 1900. It also says that in 1904 alone four players were killed. It… Read More »
More than half a million students graduate from more than 2,000 colleges and universities in the Philippines every year. Only about 30 to 40 percent of them would find any kind of employment, and only about 5 to 10 percent would be employed in jobs that match their course, while close to 60 percent would join the growing… Read More »
With the 2016 presidential election still four years away, Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay is busy forming a grand “opposition” political union of his party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), with other political parties. And on top of the heap of those he’s trying to lure into his new United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) is former President… Read More »
Heto at katatapos lang ng Mahal na Araw dito sa Pilipinas- almost a week- long holiday for most (walang pasok! But for the daily wage earner,walang sweldo!) for this predominantly Catholic nation to to give time daw to‘observe’ the true meaning of Lent. And I will now be writing about PORK , the kind one eats – a… Read More »