During the pre-war ear, gaining success in the silver screen was no ordinary achievement. No matter what role a person played in the movie, the ardent fans everywhere would somehow recognize him or her. Even during that time, Manilan’s were avid moviegoers, and so today, the Guinness Book of Record places the average Filipino as the most frequenter… Read More »
Hello, dear friends from Toronto and everywhere! Hoping you are taking in our summer with a smile- we do that with the rains that come in almost everyday during this period in the Philippines. Pero parang medyo iba na-Ayaw ng mga kids magbaon ng kapote at payong, ano ba yan? Kaya hayun, my own 5 children all went… Read More »
Marcelo Martin was a small frame man with squarest jaw, bristly hair, bog forehead, bushy hair and of average height. His constant work under the sun tanned his skin is like a leather. He had large uneven stained teeth due to smoking. Shortly before the outbreak of the Pacific war and during the Occupation, Marcing, as he was… Read More »
Next to exorcising the demons of a 20-year old dictatorship, Former President Corazon C. Aquino is now facing another big challenge in her Life: Her fight against the Big C. The 76-year old former chief executive and the first woman president of the Philippines, was rushed to the Makati Medical due to loss of appetite making her weaker… Read More »
“I want people to think of me as a person, not a personality” Michael Jackson Organizers of the Michael Jackson Memorial held July 7, 2009, were nervous. Would it be mourning or a celebration? Would the crowd be uncontrollable? One and a half million applied for a ticket to attend; the venue could only accommodate twenty thousand. There… Read More »
It seems it is all-systems go for the automation of elections in the Philippines. For a while, it seemed the Commission on Elections would have to revert to the decades-old manual voting system when the Philippine partner in the joint venture that won the poll automation bidding said it was withdrawing from the venture because of some internal… Read More »
MID-YEAR FORECAST 2009 VIBES AND VISION by Anthony Vivero Daily Tribune- Monday, June 29, 2009 The future is pre-destined and yet our free will is more powerful than destiny. The bad can turn out good or it can get worse. The good can turn bad or be better. It is up to the person concerned how he will… Read More »
Something’s sneaky about recent developments in the Philippines – the visits of two senior US officials, the radical proposal of Malacanang’s top security adviser for a revolutionary government, the sudden departure to the US of Interior Secretary Ronnie Puno and the subsequent naming of retired PNP chief Gen. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. as OIC of Puno’s department, the bomb… Read More »
The eerie similarity between the events that led to the ouster of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya and the events leading to the May 2010 elections in the Philippines should serve as a warning to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to back off from any plan to remain in power beyond her constitutionally mandated term. Zelaya was seized by soldiers and… Read More »
One of the most ancient methods of preserving food was smoking. Due to the absence of refrigeration, protein foods had to be preserved like fish and meat in excess of the home requirements, and for the rainy weather ahead. This is the story of an “umbuyan” or fish smoking house worker during the years before the Pacific War… Read More »