Welcome 2012! One challenging year is gone. Another year beckons and another chance to live a renewed, positive life. All of us will be a year older but hopefully a year wiser. Although most people welcome the New Year with gladness and enthusiasm, some are still hounded by gloom and uncertainty. I can’t blame them. With a backdrop… Read More »
For certain: Rob Ford will continue searching for the gravy. The uncertainty: What else will he find? I hope it does not leave Toronto too much of a dry meat. A certainty: The National Democratic Party will have a new leader in 2012. The uncertainty: Who will she or he be? No one seems to measure up to… Read More »
Q. Isang magandang araw po! Matagal na po akong nag hahanap ng mapag tatanungan sa aking suliranin. Hindi na po ako makatulog at makapag trabaho ng maayos dahil sa kakaisip kung papaano ako makakahanap ng Legal na Opinyon mula sa mga eksperto. Kaya nag lakas loob na po akong mag email sa inyo Ako po si Letty nag… Read More »
By Carmencita ‘Ging’ Hernandez What now, Ging? Nothing like a funeral to get people together, a time to see old friends and reacquaint with new ones with you as a centrepiece for conversation. They said you spent your life for others. There were many who visited the website John Flores, Zoraida’s nephew) set up for you. www.tinyurl.com/7gyrtvy or… 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 »
Christmas is here! Although the holiday season elicits cheers and excitement especially among children, some people feel stressed, nauseated, and overwhelmed by just the thought of it. Why is it so? Isn’t Christmas supposed to be fun and jovial? Nowadays, Christmas has been so commercialized that many children yearn for the latest, expensive gadgets. Some kids, even toddlers… Read More »
It has been clear weather the past few days now. Most people here in MetroManila are on their routine activities most of the time- home- office or place of work- home again. The shopping frenzy associated with the season is evident only during the weekends. The nighmarkets at Greenhills and Divisoria have not reached a ‘fullhouse’ rating yet… Read More »
The telenovela continues. The Christmas season of 2011 will be an unforgettable one for former President Gloria Arroyo. After the Nov.17 airport drama where she and her husband Mike Arroyo were stopped from taking their flight to Singapore, she is now finally a detainee: officially under hospital arrest at the government-run Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC), a far… Read More »
By Ricardo Jorge S. Caluen Word of the passing of Carmencita “Ging” Hernandez last December 6th left the tight circle of activists within the Filipino community—in Ontario, for that matter– in a state of shock. Everyone knew how dynamic a person Ging was. As she lay comatose in her deathbed at Toronto Western General Hospital, life support systems… Read More »