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The greatest legacy we can leave the children we raise now is a healthy environment. Safe not only in the food they eat, the air they breathe, but secure most of all from the invisible dangers which will manifest not in our time but 15 to 20 years from now.
-Posted: 2:48 AM 8/16/07 |



'Why is it that their moon here in Pun Yu is much brighter and bigger than our moon in Macau?' asks my seven-year old daughter. 'Because Pun Yu,' my five-year old son says, 'has lots of mountains and wider streets to light.'
-Posted: 2:48 AM 8/16/07 |



The former British colony had always evoked images of a shopper's paradise brought about mainly by stories my mother told me about the trips she made there as a viajera in the early eighties.
-Posted: 4:32 AM 7/29/07 |



As a diplomat, I am a peacemaker. While I remain true to this responsibility, I believe that this should not prevent me from learning the art of war. Somehow, war and peace go together. How can one appreciate peace if he has no idea about war?
-Posted: 10:48 AM 7/19/07 |



A family man like me should focus on working for his family's daily bread. I did not choose writing for a career because it has nothing to offer. Writing is a death sentence by starvation and penury.
-Posted: 10:48 AM 7/19/07 |



You made every birthday unique. Its meaning went beyond guests and presents, delicious food and parties. You taught me early on to regale in the gift of life, to be thankful even for its curveballs and oddities, to find significance in every day we spend on this earth.
-Posted: 9:25 PM 6/27/07 |



With the stunning victory at the polls of Fr. Eduardo "Among Ed" Panlilio as the governor of Pampanga, Kapampangan priests continue to make history in the 21st century. Contrary to popular impression, however, Among Ed is not the first Filipino or Kapampangan priest to be elected to public office.
-Posted: 9:25 PM 6/27/07 |



Now live and and streaming: 'Amonged' - the political phenomenon that is Among Ed Panlilio of Pampanga (an exclusive YouTube video collection)...
-Posted: 1:16 PM 5/19/07 |



And what about the future of the next generation? Bright and promising, if you can believe it, considering that your babies and mine are now supposed to be the proud heirs of a Strong Republic.
-Posted: 1:00 AM 5/10/07 |



Our bond developed from student-and-teacher relationship and grew to friendship that extended to family ties.
-Posted: 9:40 AM 5/7/07 |



Aside from poverty and decay, everything else in the Philippines is more fictitious than North American wrestling.
-Posted: 12:04 AM 4/12/07 |



A faded photo reproduction of my grandfather shows a hint of a gentle smile on his furrowed face, which, most definitely, comes from the feeling of accomplishment and pride at having raised his children well.
-Posted: 12:04 AM 4/12/07 |



Inyang epa naman kelwatan milabas tang kayanakan, ustung magpatingapun ka king pamagaral o pupuntalan siguradu yamu ing atin na kang bakal a nasi makabalut bulung sagin.
-Posted: 12:04 AM 4/12/07 |



Now on test broadcast, live and streaming: '10,000 Kristos' A special 'mal a aldo' presentation, featuring a collection of video documentaries on modern-day crucifixions in Pampanga, Philippines (courtesy of YouTube.com).
-Posted: 1:22 AM 3/18/07 |



It was a romance with AM/FM that burned hot, but that eventually burned itself out. I was having a good time, but there were other things that waited to be done. Before I knew it–just like Peter Pan's Wendy–I had grown up and wandered away. The songs kept riding the airwaves even as I had stopped listening.
-Posted: 1:22 AM 3/18/07 |



There is music that people's lives make that is passed on and leaves a mark on others.
-Posted: 1:22 AM 3/18/07 |



When The Beatles were Fab, Lennon and McCartney wrote many songs with lyrics that verged on poetry. Aside from melodic inventiveness and infectiousness, lyricism delivered with homegrown wit, a rebel streak, and, later, a mystic tinge gave their songs a universal and irresistible appeal...
-Posted: 1:22 AM 3/18/07 |



The Macabebes, unfairly portrayed in Philippine history as iniquitous if not wicked, a most derided bloodline, prodded me to travel back in time, to rummage some brittle pages of old books, and to surf the Internet to get answers to some queries that bothered me ever since I was in college.
-Posted: 1:12 AM 3/12/07 |



How do we reckon in peso terms the decimation of 71 trees in ratio to the impact on the environment or the loss of a landmark and a cultural heritage?
-Posted: 1:12 AM 3/12/07 |



As a young postgraduate medical intern, tension seized me everytime my resident or the attending consultant said "Crowning!" It was not so much the way they said it, it was what it stood for that kept me on my toes, teetering on my excitement in watchful (sometimes, anxious) anticipation.
-Posted: 12:12 AM 3/4/07 |


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