The title of this piece smacks of ludicrous thinking. Hopefully it’s NOT libelous but catches the reader’s interests and a bit elucidating. Writing can be, especially in the Philippines a most dangerous hobby. It is a wee bit precipitous if one writes about million-US-dollars men, but read this first to its last period to see whether the piece… Read More »
Philippine giant network ABS-CBN through it’s the Filipino Channel (TFC) will join the downtown Toronto celebration of “Filipinos making Waves Festival“ (FMWF) at the famous Dundas-Yonge Square on August 18/2012. Now on its 6th year, organizers of the biggest free-to-the public event and festival showcasing the varied culture of Filipinos have signed an agreement with ABS-CBN officials recently… Read More »
“The failure to prevent the killing of journalists and attacks on the media means that governments and authorities around the world are depriving you, me and everyone else of a fundamental right guaranteed to us by the Universal declaration of Human Rights – that of freely receiving and imparting information and ideas. “Barry James (Press Freedom , Safety… Read More »
In the first two words of the title there is no connect between these two human behaviour of valor and its absence; not or, or an and/or; just a comma separates them. When photos are put side-by-side of two people taken at eternal time, it should mean no connection. Separateness should be understood. Take a series of two… Read More »
I consider my written pieces a river. Philosophical or metaphorical, I cannot step into the same river twice. And no two rivers are alike, similar or comparable. It is extremely rare that two rivers (works by others) may share the same watershed, the same headwaters, the same numerous tributaries or end their journeys in the same delta. It… Read More »
GUILTY! Siyang hatol! Alahoy! Alahoy! Twenty sa senators, sa pipol umayon! Tatlo ang hinde! Miriam! Joker! Bongbong! Pubring Alindahaw! Maryanung Garapon! * * * Yung Impeachment Trial madla sinubaybayan! Malateleserye! Nguynguyan! Tawanan! Wa! Lecture ni Miriam! Me tuwa! Me asar! Nagtakip ng teynga! Tsk – tsk! Nabulyawan! * * * Putong na Corona ngayong inalis na! Inda cu!… Read More »
In a novelist’s fertile imagination there’s a “Dead Poets Society.” In a mad poet’s searching mind he can ask: If there are Beauty Contests, why can’t there be an “Ugly Contest”? The poet after all is not afraid to write there is also beauty in ugliness. So also is the writer who proved Ugly Betty is not really… Read More »
There is no dearth of material source for writing on the impeachment of CJ Corona. There is as much dirt as there is much dearth of clean surface to write on. Those who have time say their pieces of criticisms or defense and vent their anger as emails to media and as feed to the internet. As yet,… Read More »
By David Grossman SPECIAL TO BALITA It took quite some time for Melissa Vilar to understand that she was not living in a dream. The 19-year old native of Toronto, and of Philipino descent, attended the annual George Brown College salute to athletes, coaches and officials expecting to share the good times, memories and more in the final… Read More »
Toronto, Canada – Filipino-Canadian For Good Governance (FilCan4GG) is calling upon all Filipino-Canadians to join the Global Protest alongside the US Pinoys for Good Governance (USP4GG) and all other groups worldwide to protest China’s bullying tactics on the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal. GLOBAL DEMONSTRATIONS SCHEDULED ON MAY 11, FRIDAY IN FRONT OF CHINESE EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES The territorial dispute… Read More »