philippines
October 3, 2009
- The year was 1985. The month was May. I was 22 years old. An Army Intelligence soldier on leave from Okinawa, Japan, I was in the Philippines for my 4th time in three years. Had I known the impact this trip would have on me, I may never have gone, fearing the emotions I would have to endure later, when I returned. Three friends had accompanied me on this trip. We all took our ...
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January 12, 2009
- Filipinos are very good English speakers. Any English-speaking tourist can take directions from a child on the streets here in English, there would be a lot of gesticulation but more often than not they'd make it to their destination. After being rescued from the Japs in the second world war, we have always looked up to the Americans. We housed their biggest overseas military bases for decades ...
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January 9, 2009
- Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 1, 2009. I HAPPEN TO RECEIVE from my email an item that got caught my interest. I would have deleted it outright were it not for the phrase “sparks blog outrage”, that I began to unravel this news which got posted in Infotech Section of the Inquirer.net on December 28, 2008 which read: “Masui, Lanao del Sur Mayor Nasser ...
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December 21, 2008
- I TOOK A HALF-DAY FROM work on December 6, 2008 as I have to be at the Ayala Terminal at 2:00 PM. From there I will go up to Gaas, Balamban to attend the Cebu Mountaineering Society Christmas Party and Camp at the Sierra Tree Farm of the couple Ramon and Ann Vidal. At 12 noon, I raced from Mandaue City to Cebu City. There was a heavy downpour and traffic slowed down. I reached home at ...
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October 9, 2008
- “When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed to two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” - John F. KennedyWhen I was a child, we drew our drinking water at the edges of Padsan River in Laoag City.Every ...
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October 2, 2008
- "In the Philippines, the best man is woman"-- these were the words of Leonard Wood, the late Governor General of the Philippines during the Spanish era. The Filipina woman is a combination of grace and elegance, intelligence and practicality and most of all at these present times, she is the image of a working mother who is capable of managing what she does with her time to ensure that ...
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August 9, 2008
- I just spent more than twenty years of my life as a writer. Nothing extraordinary about that except that I should have been a lawyer. My father wanted me to be a barrister and I, myself, wanted to become one. But, The Fates are always more knowledgeable. Had I become a lawyer, I would not have suffered what I'm suffering now.Being a writer in the Philippines is always a struggle. For, there's ...
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