The News UpFront: (TOP STORY) as of Friday, January 10, 2014 ~ An interview statement from the Toronto-based reigning Miss International 2013 Bea Santiago that her father had apologized to her for leaving the family allegedly for another woman has opened a can of worms involving her mother and the entire Santiago family. The story spins out of… Read More »
When President Aquino promptly rejected an offer by Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla to resign over a failed promise to restore power in the areas devastated by super typhoon Yolanda before Christmas, he simply proved he didn’t give a hoot about making and breaking promises. After all, the President has made and broken a lot of promises himself.… Read More »
It should not surprise us anymore that despite the difficulties and corruption scandals of the past year, the Filipinos would remain as optimistic as ever of the coming year. Year after year, hope springs eternal for Filipinos as shown by surveys in the last few years. The surveys last year by both Pulse Asia and the Social Weather… Read More »
There were signals that this is going to be a bad winter. Remember the plunging temperature and snow storm in November? But what do we expect? This is Canada. As a friend of mine from Quebec said. “This is nothing. This is winter in this part of the world.” In early December temperature in the mid west was… Read More »
I am told that Toronto is experiencing winter that is quite bitter with heavy snow and biting cold winds. Climate change, sabi nila. But talo pa rin ang Toronto sa Pinas. Abusive talaga ang climate change phenomenon dito. Latest news reports say that rains and flooding continue to pour and cover most of Mindanao.These have brought an increase… Read More »
I am writing by the window to get some light. We have power outage here in Thornhill. IT started at about nine on Saturday and it is already eleven in the morning Sunday and electricity is not back. Is this the last storm of the year? I wonder!. There are nine more days left. I woke up this… Read More »
For Filipinos who have been outside of the Philippines for years, Christmas is both a time for rejoicing and a time for remembering. Even as the Filipino in America begins to feel the holiday mood immediately after Thanksgiving when people start shopping for gifts and Christmas decors, he feels at the same time a longing for home. For… Read More »
Vibration is once again so high and psychics and seers are again asked by people what are the things we will expect and adjustment that we will be doing to have a wonderful year of 2014. Once again the coming New Year starts with a year-ender reading and forecast from psychic vibrations of things that will happen in… Read More »
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein CHICAGO (jFAXX) – In 2009, the Philippine government came up with a scheme on how to avoid a mega-disaster comparable, if not worse than super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). It was supposed to be replicated nationwide in various cities and towns all over… Read More »
Christmas 2013 for me will probably be remembered as the season when I did not have to go so frenzied with shopping and gift- wrapping as much as I was all out in checking out and hauling down maong pants and tshirts outgrown by my many ‘children’ from the attic- these are all still in good condition and… Read More »