SPIRITUAL BREAD Part 2

When you are in despair and things get worst because of advices that are based on personal motives, then it’s about time to look for the answer from the Word of God. AVV311 As of this writing, the trouble in the Middle East is widely spreading. Now it’s the turn of Saudi Arabia government to face a wide… Read More »

JAPAN TREMOR: Was this the big one?

Just how powerful was the March 11 earthquake that hit Japan? US geological survey data said the magnitude 8.9 (Richter scale) temblor that hit the Northeastern coast of Japan had a power equivalent to 336 megaton of TNT. If compared for instance to the atom bombs that were dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima 1946 during the end of… Read More »

Philippine scandals never die; they just fade away

For several days in February, the plot thickened in the case of former AFP comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, as the Senate and House probe into his high highly suspicious plea bargain agreement stumbled upon a bigger corruption scandal that threatened to destroy the credibility of the entire Armed Forces. The investigation was developing into a potential mystery… Read More »

Positive Parenting and Tough Love: Are they compatible?

Many parents have asked me on how to discipline a child and how to show tough love. They seem so conflicted about the idea that parents who love their kids should be in control and be tough. In fact one mother believes that tough love doesn’t even exist, that’s it’s just a philosophical concept worthy to be thrown… Read More »

Two Murder Survivors Part Ways on Death Penalty

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Two surviving Filipino Americans whose members of their families were victims of murders in Illinois share opposite views on death penalty. I sought out their views following the signing Wednesday (March 9) by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn of the ban of death penalty, making Illinois the 16th state to end capital punishment. As you know,… Read More »

Corruption Galore!

Ever since two brave military officers and a courageous government auditor came out to expose corruption in the military and the Commission on Audit (COA), two earth-shaking events occurred that could break through the massive “walls” that were built to protect corrupt officials during the nine-year presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. On February 14, 2011, Bayan Muna party-list… Read More »

The Gambler’s last Gamble

Romeo Roman was an indigenous product of Walled City. His parents were both from Intramuros where Romy, as many of his friends called him, was born. After finishing his high school, he was not eager to go to college for if he did; his parents would strive hard to let Romy have a college education. So Romy went… Read More »

Then comes someone like Maria

My mother will turn 92 this March and is upbeat as ever. When I talked to her by phone the other day —3pm in Vancouver, BC— she said that she’s fine and that she was baking pizzas for her apos, aged 18, 16, and 13. Whew, when are you going to stop, mother? No, not now — not… Read More »

The evolution of the Filipino Canadian seniors

I was in the house of a friend lately and I noticed that the pictures in the family room have been changed. The former portraits were gone and the new ones were all of young ones –hockey teams, a child’s birthday party, a young girl by a Christmas tree. They were all about two to ten year olds… Read More »