Welcoming the New Year – the Pinoy way
Regardless of which part of the world you live in or which country you were born, part of your cultural upbringing will always include traditions and superstitions. Traditions, for the most…
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Losing weight & keeping it off
Tips from Balitang America’s Steve Angeles As the New Year approaches, we tend to jot down a list of resolutions, whether it’s staying organized or saving more money. One resolution…
Wrestling with an angel
Everybody has a story to tell. But we stop telling stories when we start to lose that sort of time—pausing time, reflecting time, wondering, while life rushes us along. Very…
Pope Francis: the ‘sweet scent of Jesus’
FILIPINOS are excited about the coming of Pope Francis to the Philippines on January 15-19, 2015. As many Filipinos would say, “This is a good start for the New Year!”…
December’s Gifts
IT comes to us wrapped, not in tissues and ribbons but in cherished events of ceremonies, celebrations, and connections, through parties that constellate about the holiday seasons. Guests that trooped…
Kaia Alanna: An impressively prolific raconteur at 12
One of English philosopher and essayist Francis Bacon’s popular quotations states: “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse,…
Tainted food handlers’ gloves
There are more and more fast food chains requiring their food handler to use gloves when preparing food items, as an indication of hygiene and food safety. The holiday season…
How does traveling make us richer?
They say, “traveling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” Cliché and overused —yes, that statement is. However, you cannot deny the things that traveling do which…
If love were all, I should be lonely
EACH of us encounters those sad stormy days, when we feel very small, very fragile and very frightened, as if one might shatter into a thousand pieces and break into…
The call to be joyful
I SPENT most of my time this week visiting our seminarians who are on parish internship this year. As always, I feel happy when I hear them express their excitement…
Glitz and glamour on the red carpet
IT was once a stately glamorous ritual limited to lavish red carpet gala premieres, which flourished in Hollywood’s golden era gods and goddesses. It used to be synonymous with night…
Ed & Olyn Bautista: Life on the silvery route
Feeling the same intensity of emotional affection for each other after a score and five years of blissful togetherness, medical couple Eduardo and Olyn Bautista had triumphantly survived all possible…
Alcohol increases cancer risk
The abuse of alcohol is the leading risk factor for disability and premature death in the world. Besides tobacco an other harmful agents, alcohol is the most common cause of…
It’s beginning to look like Christmas
It’s because everywhere, you see good cheers, as the season bring tidings of comfort and joy. Everyone seems decided to be happy, living, fulfilled, generous, peaceful, contented, joyful, festive and emotionally…
Advent: a penitential season
“ Advent is the time to strengthen the uneven and crooked shapes of our lives, to broaden our horizons, and to reform of our ways.” THERE is still a great need…
Gawad Kalinga’s Genius of The Poor
By: Charisse Trinidad The Gawad Kalinga Community proudly hosted the book launch of renowned British journalist Thomas Graham’s newly published book Gawad Kalinga’s The Genius Of The Poor. The event…
Diosdado Rey Banatao: An inherited surname
WITHOUT question, this interview is due to a name, to a relationship, to the fact that he is Disodado Banatao’s son. This may sound unfair and discourteous, perhaps it is. The…
An unbounded amity defying all odds
The invite in blue and silvery white indicated the specially conceptualized party to celebrate Aaron Tupaz Frias’ 46th birthday last Saturday, November 29, would start at 8:15 PM and so…
The impact of grandparents
Countless scientific studies in different countries have been done on the influence of grandparents on their grandkids concerning various facets in the life of the children. The better known researches…
Christmas as told by lights and sounds
WHAT do you expect of the country’s leading commercial city? In Makati, everything is in motion—so fast and busy that one forgets to slow down and take in the beauty…
On a Saturday evening
IT is the time I prepare myself for worship on Sunday, by reading beautiful and poetic stories from the Bible. Our knowledge of the Bible was limited to memorizing the…
Ground and crushed, thanks be to God!
MY fellow priest in the seminary, Fr. Leon, gave a beautiful homily last Tuesday, the day that the seminarians left for Thanksgiving break. He said that we’re like grains of…
Pacquiao: The triumph of the spirit
THE boxing arena has all the great literary themes. Money, power, romance get played out in the careers of the these elite marquee fighters—perhaps a little bigger, a little gaudier…
Marieta E. Lamar: On a trendy savoir-faire amid a tumultuous plight
Gorgeous, big-hearted, pious, amiable, strong-willed single mom, civic-oriented community leader, and passionately fashionable…these and much more best describe the socially indefatigable community figure Marieta Esquillo Lamar from Majayjay, Laguna and…
Enterovirus-D68: Polio-like
On top of the Ebola scare, we now have enterovirus D68 infecting children and producing polio-like symptom, including limb paralysis in some. The poliomyelitis epidemic in the United States dates…
Vigan’s battle ends on December 7
The fruit of our labor is finally sprouting; but they still need to be cultivated. The Philippines’ very own Vigan made it to the final phase of the New 7…
A day of thanks and giving
THIS great holiday of thanks and giving is not a date on a calendar, but a state of mind. It is about our capacity to realize things that we can,…
Pope Francis and Filipinos’ view of a Benevolent God
MY dear friend, Prosy Delacruz, pleaded that I respond to Rodel Rodis’ column, Pope Francis’ View of God on Inquirer.net. My tukayo’s column reflected on Filipinos’ perception of God in the…
Gone but not forgotten
IT has been five years since the ignominy of a conscious and premeditated crime, where 58 people (32 of them were media workers) were slaughtered on a hill top in…
Jose Mari Chan juggles between his music and business enterprise
(and ends up a winner in both) “…Love has to cry…But need not die… Heart has to sigh…the test of time… We’re at the afterglow…and ‘though we both do know…