This is my column for the Collegian this week. *** Some of my Filipino friends back home have asked me about how clean Americans are inside the house. I could not answer straight to the point, because the term “clean” is relative: cleanliness in the Filipino perspective could be a far cry from the American [...]
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Poverty and corruption will not change national pride
July 22nd, 2009
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I write about national issues and also about touching lives. This is about two of my Filipino friends, Sharon and Mimi. The oil-rich Saudi Arabia became Sharon’s home right after her college graduation. As an entertainer in a foreign land, money fills her purse with no trouble at all when she belts out her songs [...]
SMS spamming abused by mobile service providers
June 3rd, 2009
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“You are qualified to win the daily lotto, to join please text back……” I suspect that the number of text messages sent daily is growing very rapidly anywhere around the world. As per estimate, the sent rate is hundreds of billions per annum. With its wide coverage, text messaging has been the target of spammers, [...]
Live life happily
June 3rd, 2009
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How to live life happily? Most often, I’d get suggestions like: make a contribution by working hard in a work you love; be in the know and intelligent; gather a surplus; love your family above your friends, your cellphone, your dog, your career; and progress in the firm and gain high title and salary, stock [...]
When brown is mixed with white – finding your true identity
May 26th, 2009
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Brown-colored skin. That’s what I have. No trace of yellowish or white tints in me. Only pure brown, like I was baked to perfection, so to speak. With both parents having the lineage of the locally-bred mature generation, the product is a no more than a similar-looking life form. To translate it into percentage of [...]
Which is better – Prime Minister or President?
May 1st, 2009
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Cha-cha has come out in the news again. Charter change, that is. Opposing Philippine politicians are in a brawl once more, debating the need to shift from a presidential, bicameral system to a unicameral, parliamentary form of government. So, which is preferable? Should the Filipino people retain this current presidential form of government or should [...]
Others’ joy is real meaning of happiness
April 15th, 2009
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How would you measure happiness? Is it the size of your smile while working on a job you really love? Is it the number of degrees you have attained and the amount of knowledge you have collected? Is the gauge of happiness allied with gathering a surplus, or loving your family and friends, or collecting [...]
Youth may be nice, but ‘aging is not negative’
April 7th, 2009
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While having my daily dose of coffee mocha at Cottonwood, I gazed upon a couple who also frequent the shop, just like me, but for their evening tea and slices of sandwiches. She is not the usual lady who bends her head on her partner’s shoulder. Neither is she the one who smiles constantly and [...]
