After quietly celebrating Christmas Day, many people must now face reality and ask themselves: What’s ahead in 2009? How are we going to cope? The past year, with all its problems, is better left forgotten. The new year always brings new hope, but with last year’s problems threatening to worsen and bring about even bigger problems, many people… Read More »
Q. Dear Atty. Wong, I always read your column in the Balita newspaper. I really find your column very informative. May I please seek your advice regarding my land in the Philippines? For quite sometime I have become Canadian citizen way back in 1978. I have a house in Bulacan, which is constructed adjacent to a parcel of… Read More »
This article is in commemoration of the 112th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Philippine National hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, observed December 30, 2008. While certain groups paused and recalled the event on this date many Filipinos especially those who were born outside the Philippines do not see the relevance of the contributions of this great man to… Read More »
Anno 2008 will perhaps be remembered (or best forgotten) as the year that spawned the unprecedented global economic crisis never been seen since the Great US depression era of the 1920s. No wonder, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in his traditional Christmas message warned that 2009 will be a “difficult year “. It means for all of us… Read More »
2008 has been an incredible year! Beautiful babies have been born to joyful, expectant parents. New graduates have received job offers. Motivated employees have been promoted to positions they love. Creative individuals have invented new gadgets and technologies to make life easy for everyone. New and old cities have experienced business boom. After going through loads of challenges… Read More »
I hope that you all had a Merry Christmas and you received all the best things you were dreaming to have. Now comes the New Year that almost always brings glad aspirations and certain nostalgia for fond things in the past. This time, let’s face it – times are hard and most people are looking at the coming… Read More »
Two weeks ago, CNN, an American Channel, presented a program honoring heroes of America. When we think of heroes, what often come to our minds are the men and women with distinguished courage who fought in battlefields and often gave their lives in the cause of freedom . Before the program actually started, I was thinking of the… Read More »
“Badong, I am promoting you to Supervising Inspector,” the Transportation General Manager told him when the driver was stationed in the city waiting for passengers. “You will be on your own, and you can travel at your own desire. This will also mean increase in your salary,” concluded the General Manager. Mang Badong could not say a word,… Read More »
Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. As I sit here writing this column against the deadline, I’m reminded of my days as a young advertising copywriter when I occasionally needed a deadline as motivation to finish a boring project. The deadline did more than motivate me to finish — more often than not, it was what finally stimulated enough creative… Read More »