Category Archives: Editorial

Filipino oppression through the centuries

“Your heart will tell you that you can’t let it go and that you have to challenge the oppressor.” Pura Velasco, Toronto Star, April 3, 2009 Her face dominated the front page of the Toronto Star on April 3, 2009 as she expressed her jubilation over the announcement that the Ontario Government is going to introduce legislation to… Read More »

How to Change Your Partner?

“Something is wrong with my husband Doc. I don’t know how to change him. He’s annoying. Is there any way I can change him?” In my practice, I’ve met many people trying to change their partners for whatever reason. They want their partners to change their attitude, their style of communication, their personality. They want others to change… Read More »

Pulling our legs again

Either way you look at the announcements of Philippine House Speaker Prospero Nograles and Rep. Luis Villafuerte that they are resigning their leadership of Lakas and Kampi, respectively, to hasten the merger of the two administration parties, it definitely does not bode well for the opposition in the 2010 presidential elections and in the battle for charter change… Read More »

The Main Ingredient

THE UN-COMFORT ZONE with Robert Wilson In 1907, during a major league baseball game, second base was stolen 13 times by the winning team. The catcher for the losing team, Branch Rickey, was unable to pick off even a single runner. That record stands to this day. It also spelled the end of Rickey’s career as a baseball… Read More »

Warning on warming

The world’s foremost experts on global warming gathered in an emergency meeting in Copenhagen last week to warn politicians to act now to minimize the impact of what they described could be ‘irreversible’ climate shifts and hopefully save a world that they said was “on the brink.” The 2,500 scientists from 80 countries who attended the conference warned… Read More »

Volunteering

Volunteering is simply giving back. When you volunteer, you give a big part of yourself — your time, your energy, your talent, your money, your individuality . . . and your vision. You can’t give something you don’t have. You can give only what you own. So giving back is more profound than what it means. It conveys… Read More »

A Handy Helper

In Depoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, the main character found a handy helper in the island-domain in the person of Man Friday. A handy helper was an individual who could perform so many jobs at any time either on his own volition, as directed or requested. Such a type of a young man was found in the quiet barrio… Read More »

Juana and Kiko: “Kababayan natin“

Two Filipinos of substance had left a lasting legacy to their “Kababayans “ , including those millions scattered around the world, the OFWs, The expats and others in search of better lives, of good fortunes not found in their homeland to clothe and feed their hungry families back home and some more of them who are plainly disillusioned… Read More »