Huwag kang sasagot!” Answering back elders is a sign of disrespect. No matter whether the elder is right or wrong. Respect for elders is a tradition deep in Filipino culture. Younger generations are expected to kiss the hand of parents, grandparents, uncles or aunts as sign of respect. The Filipino language (Tagalog) contains expressions of respect like “po… Read More »
(Author’s note: At this time of the year, this writer pauses from political and other issues and focuses on the Christmas season. The article below was first written in 2003 and has appeared in this corner during the Christmas weekend every year since.) For Filipinos who have been outside of the Philippines for years, Christmas is both a… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – Filipino voters should rejoice that they are being offered an alternative with the rising popularity of Sen. Grace Poe, who can pull even, if not get ahead of faltering Vice President Jojo Binay if the current trending continues. But the fickle-minded voters should also be reminded that a presidential election is not just a popularity… Read More »
With the Aquino administration, when something goes wrong there is always somebody or something to blame. After all, President Aquino is still blaming former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for everything that ails the country more than four years after he took over the reins of the country. For example, when the government failed to fulfill its promise and… Read More »
MANILA There is no holiday bigger than Christmas for us Filipinos. We’re simply crazy about it. The longest Christmas (I believe Mexico makes the same claim). The happiest holiday. The best time of the year. All true. As we all know, Christmas carols start wafting in the air the moment the “ber” months come rolling in.… Read More »
Sen. Grace Poe denied again on Monday that she has any plans of running for a higher office in 2016. That’s the second time she has said so amid increasing calls for the 2013 senatorial elections top vote getter to run for president or vice president in the coming presidential elections. The neophyte lady senator made the statement… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – If President Obama fulfills his promise to issue an executive order on Friday (Nov. 21), there is no more need for Filipino Americans to press for Temporary Protective Status (TPS) that would have authorized tens of thousands of undocumented Filipinos in the United States to obtain work permit and stop their deportation following the devastation… Read More »
More than a year since super typhoon Yolanda brought death, destruction and deprivation to Leyte and other provinces in Eastern Visayas, nobody still knows for sure how many died, the destruction remains very visible, and the victims continue to be deprived of food, shelter and jobs. And all because more than a year since the world’s strongest recorded… Read More »
The death last Saturday – the day millions of people in some countries remember their dead — of Brittany Maynard, who chose to end her life at the young age of 29 rather than suffer while waiting for the inevitable, reignited the dormant debate over the right to die with dignity. “Goodbye to all my dear friends and… Read More »
I have just finished sharing the Remembrance Day Celebration in Ottawa via television. It was a very emotional celebration—–warm, poignant and solemn. The prime minister and his wife were there, the governor general and his wife, Princess Royal Anne, the lady who was chosen to represent all Canadian mothers, the top heads of the different branches of the… Read More »