Trivia: Veteran showbiz celebrities were reunited to observe the 87th birthday of the late German Moreno, known as Master Showman. These included the hosts of his most popular TV variety show That’s Entertainment. Among them were Piolo Pascual, Lea Salonga, Jestoni Alarcon, Sheryl Cruz, Billy Crawford, Romnick Sarmenta, Lotlot de Leon, Ramon Christopher, Kristina Paner and Lovely Rivero.… Read More »
“I think that inside all of us…is a devil just dying to break out. Most of us, we know how to keep him penned up. We lock him away in a personal jail with bars of morality. But sometimes, he’s able to pry those bars apart, just enough to slip out. And if he’s been in there for… Read More »
The wishy-washy style of undocumented minutes of meetings, inaccurate and incomplete financial reports, and questionable handling of funds characterize a culture of leadership at the Filipino Centre Toronto (FCT) akin to running a bubble gum store. For example, a scramble for payable invoices ensued to justify the release of $678,000 in 2017 when FCT sold its building in… Read More »
For four years, we saw the meteoric rise of Donald J. Trump from a reality show producer to the President of the United States. That’s a quantum leap from an obscure position in the TV industry to the highest political position in the world – the leader of the Free World! How did he manage to achieve that? By sheer… Read More »
All Souls Day is here and for people who lost their loved ones, it will surely be a day for remembering. For me, my late husband Ruben Cusipag, had been gone for over seven years, but his memories remain as fresh, as if it happened just yesterday. The Founder of Balita Newspaper, a journalist by heart, a social… Read More »
The Notorious RBG “I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Being a male, it’s very natural to idolise someone in the same sex but not the opposite. But because it is now the 21 st century, considering… Read More »
Q: Atty greetings po! Ang tatay ko po ay may minana na lupa sa kanyang mga magulang(pareho ng patay), pero hindi pa po nakapangalan sa kanya ang titulo ng lupa. Na-transfer lang po angtitulo ng lupa sa kanyang pangalan lamang noong sya ay may asawa na (nanay ko). Ang tanong ko po aykung may karapatan po ba ang… Read More »
Trivia:With the intriguing resurface of ex-veteran actor Mel Francisco, the supposedly death father of ex-actorJohn Regala from the famous Padilla clan, controversy did burst anew. He showed a garish proof thathe’s still alive, didn’t pass away as reported decades back. After staying abroad, he opted to quietly livein Laguna and away from showbiz.However, Mel who’s Adolfo Padilla off… Read More »
Are you feeling overwhelmed these days? Or am I just getting more angsty, being cooped inmore as a result of COVID-19 restrictions? Maybe I am watching too much news, and a lot of itis not uplifting, more depressing to be precise. I looked deeper into some statistics to gauge thedistress in the general population. In a nutshell, my… Read More »
By Socrates ‘Soc’ Moreno Non-profit organizations like the Filipino Centre-Toronto (FCT) do not belong to a chosen few but to itsmembers, who in our case, represent the Filipino community.FCT executive council officers and board of directors (BOD) who volunteered their services have afiduciary responsibility to safeguard members’ interests, manage assets of the organization withintegrity, and promote the Filipino… Read More »