In the past few weeks, the Philippine peso has been climbing to record highs, with investment bank Goldman Sachs seeing the peso climbing to 43 per dollar in the next three months, 42 in six months and 41 in 12 months. Barclays Capital was even more optimistic, expecting the peso to rise to 40 against the dollar over… Read More »
Except for his closest friends and relatives, no one will ever know for sure why Marlon Cueva, a 36-year-old power plant technician returning after a three-month deployment in Dubai, hanged himself in the lavatory of Gulf Air Flight GF 154 last week, just an hour away from being reunited with his wife and children. Neither shall we know… Read More »
Emotional attachment of the dead makes one place haunted. AVV1110 It’s Halloween once again and for today’s article, we will feature three of the world’s most famous haunted houses and the stories behind it. THE WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE The Winchester Mystery house located in San Jose, California was once the house of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester and… Read More »
I often face questions from friends about people who complain a lot and how to deal with them. Somehow they sound exasperated and desperate when they pose their concerns. But why? I can’t blame them if they feel the way they do. Life in itself is complicated. Dealing with complainers just adds spice to the complexity of it… Read More »
Hello, Toronto! Biggest news on the last week of the month just passed (my birthmonth, incidentally, I am now 59) was the baranggay and kabataan elections of October 25. On the morning after, as I woke up to write this column, I found it strange that the street where I reside was unusually quiet. When I left the… Read More »
It was sheer joy to meet old friends and relatives. They all say how good I looked and how I never aged at all. I foresaw all these and of course I was prepared. I have gifts for everyone, small momentous for remember me by. After the usual round of meeting friends and relatives, and old friends my… Read More »
Hello, Toronto! Itigil ang bangayan- yan daw ang mahigpit na bilin ni PNoy sa kanyang govern-ment staff(from cabinet secretaries hanggang pinaka junior official). Panu nga naman, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth na here is PNoy calling for unity tapos ang mga tauhan nya mismo ay nag- aawayan, may pagkakahatian, may intrigahan pa (balita ko lang).… Read More »
Above the din of emotional outbursts and threats of excommunication is an article written by a Catholic priest in the Manila Standard Today last week. In his article, “Excommunication and other non-issues,” Fr. Ranhillo Callangan Aquino called for sobriety and rationality, and demanded that the Roman Catholic Church should be ready to convince the people – Catholics and… Read More »
My four kids are back to school. And they’re so glad to see their old friends and classmates who they only communicate through Facebook and e-mails last summer. I’m not sure how they could have survived those lazy afternoons without being online. No doubt, internet like food, shelter, and clothing has become a necessity. And Google has become… Read More »
It was a beautiful autumn day. The sun was shining brightly. The fall was at its peak with the treetops glorious in yellow, orange and green. The temperature went up to 23 degrees C. It must have been the Indian summer day of the year. The bus with forty one passengers, mostly Filipinos with a sprinkling of other… Read More »