My social networking accounts were smoking with ‘tweets’ and posts about the recent calamity that happened in the Philippines. At the time of writing this article, fifty-seven people were declared dead after a group of people related to Vice-Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu were kidnapped and brutally murdered. This bloody incident surely called the world’s attention, and [...]
I remember that my mother used to tell me before that the songs “Got to Believe in Magic” and “King and Queen of Hearts” are the template songs that high schoolers dance in their promenades or graduation balls. I have to support her statement, for these songs were played during my own formal dance, which [...]
Last May 29, I joined hundreds of students and obtained my bachelors degree. After four years of sleepless nights, long (and cold) bus rides going to school, numerous cups of coffee and sugar-laded energy drinks, I was able to obtain the certificate that shows that I was able to complete the requirements in order [...]
Noong nakaraang Enero ay nanumpa na ako sa harap ng hukom at naging ganap nang mamamayan ng bansang Canada. Taong 2006 ko pa napagdesisyunan ito at naayos lang ang proseso ng application ko noong nakaraang taon. Bandang Hunyo ay naisaayos ko na ang papeles; dumating ang Nobyembre at naganap ang pagsusulit.
Sa mga buwang nagdaan habang [...]
Living away from one’s home country, I’ve heard a bunch of stories from fellow Filipinos, from family problems, to fellow kababayans who spend a lot of time gossiping about their co-workers. But one type of story that always catches my attention is that whenever an acquaintance mentions that he or she is involved in a [...]
Sa araw na tumapak ang aking mga paa sa campus ng University of Manitoba, isa sa mga hinanap ko ay ang isang samahan para sa mga Pilipinong estudyante ng nasabing pamantasan. Subalit laking panghihinayang ko nang malamang ang samahang hinahanap ko ay hindi na pala matatagpuan. Sa madaling salita, naglaho na ito.
Dumaan ang ikalawang taon [...]
Sa gulong nagaganap sa Pilipinas ay nananatili kami ng aking pamilya na nakatutok sa The Filipino Channel o TFC, kung saan kami nakakakuha ng mga balita, maliban sa pagbisita sa mga websites ng mga pangunahing pahayagan sa Pilipinas. Gaano man ang pagkaaliw ng aking nakababatang kapatid sa teleseryeng Kampanerang Kuba ay ganoon naman ang pagkadismaya [...]
I realized that I sucked at Math when I was in high school. Related subjects (i.e. Chemistry, Physics and Accounting) also su ffered the same thing. Numbers confused the hell out of me and it didn’t help that my parents are both engineers. I was unfortunate that I wasn’t as brilliant as my cousin who graduated [...]
I HAVE been living here in Winnipeg for about eight months now, and I am proud to say that I have been to different places by riding a bus, and not by driving a car. Of course, that does not mean that I do not know how to drive; or like my mother, am too [...]
The future sounds intimidating. It gives us the feeling that things that will come are inevitable, and that we cannot do anything to avoid what will happen. The thought makes us incapable of manipulating the upcoming events. We cannot see it, but we know that sooner or later, time will run out and everything will [...]