Category Archives: Editorial

A Selfish, Thoughtless Deed!

That recent news of this young woman, who committed a series of frauds by pretending that she has cancer, has evoked a range of deep painful emotions in thousands, probably even millions of people who have been touched by this dreadful disease.                 She was previously charged with three acts of fraud below five thousand dollars each and… Read More »

LETTERS FROM THE READERS

Spirit or ghost months are now upon us. This is the time when the spirit world opens its door between their world and our world. This is the time where we are experiencing apparitions and possessions of some kind. Enough understanding is the key to this mystery.                                                                                                                                     0810               Inquiry No. 1 – SCHIZOPHRENIA.   My daughter… Read More »

Eyeing the gold in London

If there’s anything that stood out in Rep. Manny Pacquiao’s first privilege speech, it was his humility and his sincerity to serve the best way he can. The ever-humble Pacquiao immediately earned the respect of his colleagues in the House of Representatives when he admitted at the outset that he was awed by the fact that he is… Read More »

The Military –Minded Man

“Hey Suseng, you look spic and span in your military uniform” observed Raul, a barrio friend when he saw the uniformed barrio lad alighted from the bus on its last trip.             “I’m now taking PMT or Preparatory Military Training course in high school, it is compulsory for all male seniors, replied Suseng as his khaki uniform had… Read More »

Now the hard part begins

After nine years of lies and empty promises, we finally heard the true state of the nation and how the new administration plans to lift the nation from where it now stands to where it should be a year from now.               While Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had to use props in the person of three little boys… Read More »

P10.5 billion gone like magic

And we thought we’ve had enough of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Just when we thought she was ready to fade away and that we’ve heard the last of her administration’s shenanigans, another questionable disbursement that would dwarf the P728-million fertilizer fund scam was revealed last week.               On July 14, just a day before Arroyo, her husband Mike… Read More »

Feel good new Pinoys

NEWS ITEM:  “ A devoted Filipino maid inherited  S6 Million Singapore dollars(about P202 Million ) from her late employer  after more than 20 years of service “. Can this be happening?  This jewel of a good news is really true amid the spate of reports we read and hear every now and then of miseries suffered by our… Read More »

MID-YEAR FORECAST 2010

In the middle of the year, things will be clearer. Future for the rest of the year can now be felt and not just seen. The good thing is we can prepare for the issues that will come if we can’t prevent it to happen                                                                                                                         AVV710               Election 2010 did push through, amid speculations of NO-EL… Read More »

What money can buy

I turned on the television one morning to get the weather forecast and I hit the Regis-Kelly show. My attention was caught by Regis’ exclamation,” Five hundred thousand dollars for two weeks?” He appeared he could not believe what he was reading in the New York morning paper. It developed that it was a news item about a… Read More »

The Instalment Man

Modern business today thrives on the commercial instrument of credit.  By proper spaced payment, an item can have by a buyer from the creditor who sells the desired items.  The spaced payment is known as instalment or “hulugan”, the amount depends on the arrangements usually on the paying capacity of the buyer or customer.             Long before the… Read More »