Facts on cancer
What is a malignant tumor? Cancer or malignant tumor is a disease entity where the cells in the tissues of an organ (like the breast, lung, prostate, liver, brain, etc.)…
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The friendship of Alma Alvarez: San Diego’s pearl
San Diego: The alpha lunch. The stage setting for our first lunch at the Coronado Hotel was planned as no big deal. It lasted two hours. “This is good,” she…
Trini P. Foliente: Intrepid but gracious trailblazer
The story of this interview is special. I’ve spent high interesting hours, abandoning political questions as Trini Paredes Foliente, vice president of the LA-Makati Sister, Inc. talked exclusively about casual…
Peace! Do not let yourselves be troubled
THE acolyte summoned the priests to say a prayer before Mass. He implored, “Oh, Lord, our God, thank you for the beauty of this brand new day. Thank you for…
John Derick P. Co holds on to his conquered terpsichorean prominence
WHERE words fail, music speaks…and where communications fall short, body language conveys emotion. There is always a strange fascination in the interpretation of one’s emotional expression through dance. There is…
Can too much sleep cause a stroke?
The benefits of adequate sleep are well established. Insufficient sleep can adversely affect the mental processes, including concentration, and over all bodily functions. It also increases the risk for cardiovascular…
Maestro Dexter Grey: One day in the Great Wall of China
This is a little back story. It is about that day Piano Virtuoso Dexter Grey, dubbed The Maestro in the literary world of music and its horizon, created a splash…
Sally Jamorabon: The human heart of a teacher
The prestige is always there. Teaching is a very serious pursuit where one starts with a calling and lives it as a purpose. “Those who can, do; those who can’t…
Feasting on God’s Mercy!
THE Easter Season is not over yet! We just started it last Sunday. We’re celebrating this Sunday, the Second Sunday of Easter or, as Pope John Paul II promulgated in…
PACCAL: Reaching further heights, accomplishing valuable services
“The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi AFTER having meticulously assessed all possible resources, conscientiously brainstormed the brightest…
Health and air travel
How safe is air travel? There are more than 4000 accidents, mostly non-fatal, that occur around the world each year in general aviation, varying in degree of gravity, mostly involving…
The riddles of life
I don’t know the answers to the big questions of life. But everything is relative, everything has a story. Yes, I’ve met amazing souls, and the lights fill me—flattering lights…
Observing Holy Week
Lenten season is the time when Christians — Catholic and other religious denominations — remember Christ’s passion (his suffering and death) and resurrection. Ash Wednesday (40 days before Easter Sunday)…
Behind the bylines of AJP
IT was an exquisite comfort to gaze at the building occupied by Asian Journal Publications, Inc. – upright and permanent, yawning with the rest, in a block of prime real…
Jesus triumphs and lives!
IT’S Easter Sunday and according to the Gospel of John, this is the celebration of the triumph and the glory of Jesus on the cross because of his fulfillment of…
FACLA @ age 70
It will be an unbridled celebration of sight, sound and scene that will collide with the Filipino-American community of Los Angeles at Temple Street on April 25-26. It will be…
Fe Labilles Sales… her name spells philanthropic service
“A woman is like a tea bag…you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water!” Eleanor Roosevelt DURING the recently concluded PACCAL (Pan American Concerned Citizens’…
Ways to prevent cancer
Cancer is the second among 10 leading causes deaths in the United States and in many other developed countries around the world, just below heart disease, the # 1 killer….
The vampire of family life
MEMOIRS after memoirs, celebrities reveal unhappiness hidden beneath all the glitz and glitter. Of voids they fill up with drinking; broken marriages, failed relationships, troubled childhoods, frustrating careers, bereavement—all sources…
PACCAL recognizes 2015 women achievers & influential women
“A woman is the full circle…within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform!” (Diane Mariechild). THROUGH the years, history has remarkably generated an immense number of empowered women…
Palm Sunday and the call for solidarity
IT’S Palm Sunday this weekend, the beginning of Holy Week! We also call this Sunday, Passion Sunday, because we commemorate the entrance of Jesus to Jerusalem to be crucified, to…
Maintenance 101
Vehicle maintenance is one of the more bothersome aspects of automobile ownership. Taking your ride into Auto Shop or Dealer is often like having a tooth pulled–painful, but necessary. Maintenance…
The bitter controversy
What is Ampalaya? Commonly called bitter melon or bitter gourd and known scientifically as Momordica charantia, ampalaya is a very popular vegetable in Asia. This vegetable is green, tubular in…
Spring once more
Spring has sprung. It is upon us in a scent that grows deeper, dizzying, improbable. It is too heady, too provocative to be diminished. Seeping through open windows, under doors,…
Lydia V. Solis: On the threshold of a great job with the PWUAASC
This piece began as an act of friendship. But because friendship has no biological purpose, no economic status, savored without rules that turned out to be a sparkling conversation—with pauses…
I am God’s beloved child!
FR. Steve, my colleague in the seminary, told me as soon as he left my office after we chatted, “Fr. Rodel, God will never abandon you. And remember, just as…
Grace Wong, a mother on the totem pole
In every connubial set-up, regardless of creed, religion, color or orientation, the state of muliebrity has always considerably been on the paramount level of recognition and in high esteem simply…
Brain pill: A hoax?
Alzheimer’s Disease is an ailment more dreaded and feared than most illnesses, including cancer. The mere thought of losing ones mind, of having a brain with less capacity than of…
If I could Interview Jesus Christ
LENT is a season of Christ’s teachings which are presented self-righteously, mournfully, nasally, coldly, feebly, flamboyantly, blandly in a thousand pulpits across the nation. If I were asked the rationale…
Mayweather and Pacquiao: The epic, cracking fight
LOS ANGELES—Who said downtown LA only gets crowded when the Lakers are playing? Last Wednesday, the only game in town was when boxing superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao…