One beautiful and endearing trait of the rural people of yesteryears was the spirit of damayan or mutual community help. This admirable spirit was a traditional expression of mutuality and communality among our forebears when existence was a continuous struggle for survival. Possibly, the provenance of damayan was borne out of experience, for without it the early… Read More »
Two weeks ago, a presentation on Hepatitis C awareness was held at the Markham Federation of Filipino Canadians Center in Markham. 14 women and three men, all Filipinos, attended it. The information-giving session was made possible by the Canadian Ethnocultural Council in collaboration with the Canadian Liver Foundation, with the cooperation of the Markham Federation of Filipino… Read More »
Different beliefs debate on miracles having stopped a long time ago, that was during Christ’s time. But for those who still believe that Christ is alive and never left us in the first place, miracle is at hand, all the time. AVV909 I have personally heard several people of different religious beliefs… Read More »
Do you sleep well every night? Do you immediately fall asleep as soon as you hit the bed? Or are you awake the whole night as if waiting for the sun to rise, tossing and turning endlessly? If somehow you manage to sleep, how many hours is it? Do you often wake up in the middle… Read More »
The recent flash floods in Luzon brought about by Typhoon Ondoy brought back memories of the July-August Floods of 1972, less than two months before martial law was declared by President Marcos. I was a recently hired reporter for the Philippines Daily Express and was at the same time a senior student at the University of… Read More »
One of the most ancient methods of preserving food was smoking. Due to the absence of refrigeration, protein foods had to be preserved like fish and meat in excess of the home requirements, and for the rainy weather ahead. This is the story of an “umbuyan” or fish smoking house worker during the years before the Pacific War… Read More »
Q. Dear Atty. Wong, we have a 39-year-old apartment rental building in the Philippines that we inherited from our parents. Property title is under all our names. Being an old building, lots of repairs are needed. One of my siblings does not want to share the apartment repair expenses but wants to receive the monthly rental income collection… Read More »
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Presidential son and congressman Mike M. Arroyo is under heavy scrutiny these days over his alleged failure to declare millions of properties and assets including a beachfront property in Northern California, USA. This comes close at the heel of the now infamous expensive marathon dinners in New York and Washington D.C involving her mother President Gloria M Arroyo… Read More »