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Happy International Women’s Day (2009)
Sunday, 8 March is International Women’s Day, a global day of celebration. It is the global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. International...
View ArticleDiabetes Awareness (Facts about Diabetes)
I promised my exADB yahoo group friends that I would spread the word around–for awareness of DIABETES. There are plans for a medical mission next year. In the meantime, we go for awareness. The more I...
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Takbong Pangarap: Joy Rojas, Filipina Runner to Run from East to West Coast...
I would like to introduce Joy Rojas, Filipina Runner. She has been running since she was in her early 20s. She would run from Manila to Tagaytay (7 hours), and to so many places in the Philippines. I...
View ArticlePOC Presents Takbong Pangarap with Joy Rojas (Bloggers’ Meet on 18 April)
UPDATE as of 15 April 2009 You are all invited to join the Blogger’s Meet with Joy Rojas When: Saturday, April 18 (Event moved from April 15 to April 18) Where: Powerbooks, Megamall A Time: 4:00 PM to...
View ArticleApproval of HR 1109–like a thief in the night, they again robbed the...
A lot of Filiponos will wake up today–surprised, or even shocked with the latest development. While many were asleep, the Philippine House of Representatives, like a thief in the night, has again...
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Blog Action Day ’09 Climate Change: There is HOPE…if only
Here is my contribution to Blog Action Day ’09 Climate Change. When I was a little girl more than 4 decades ago, I lived in a house overlooking a major river in my hometown. A dike separated the river...
View ArticleLeptospirosis Alert: a silent killer on the loose (an information campaign)
After super typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, those affected have been focused on picking up the pieces of their lives, with restoring order and peace in the country being the main priority of our...
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Meeting Our Presidentiables: Nicanor Perlas–An alternative to traditional...
Who is Nicanor Perlas? After reading up on him and watching the Probe candidate profile of the man I found that he gave up a potential career as a soccer player and in nuclear physics to take up...
View ArticleToday, I Fell in Love
by BA Racoma Your beautiful eyes never fail to captivate me. Every time you flap those sweet eyelashes of yours, I can’t help but just look back in awe. And your warm and oh so tender touch, brings...
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Despite Ondoy, despite Haiti, despite Chile…life has to go on (help save...
Despite Ondoy, despite Haiti, and despite Chile which lately experienced an earthquake with an 8.8 intensity in the Richter scale and the upcoming tsunamis in Hawaii and the Pacific basin…life has to...
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World Habitat Day: better city, better life
Everyone has the right to adequate shelter, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If so, then about 1.6 billion people living in substandard housing have been violated of their...
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Small Steps to Achieving a Green Manila
There is a global trend towards becoming more environmentally aware and proactive. In the US, arguably responsible for a large percentage of the garbage in the world, there is a huge push to recycle,...
View ArticleDISCIPLINE – The One Thing We Need for Change (Part 1)
If you look around the country and read the newspapers, it seems like the problems that the nation faces are insurmountable. There’s joblessness, high inflation rates, lack of classrooms, rampant...
View ArticleDISCIPLINE – The One Thing We Need for Change (Part 2)
Discipline is much needed and sorely lacking in the country today. It is probably why things are the way they are. There is chaos, no order, no system. It’s a mess! Promises aren’t kept, there’s no...
View ArticleWhy we need to be so hard on the prosecutors (2/2)
Continued from Why we need to be so hard on the prosecutors(1/1) Using the media Another tactic that is backfiring on the Prosecution team is the extensive use of media outlets to air their side or...
View ArticleWomen at War: Violence Against the Filipina (Part 1/2)
Nora is a house helper now in her 50s. Her older brother’s friend raped her at the tender age of 14. Because of the shame of the rape, she was compelled to live as husband and wife with her abuser even...
View ArticleWomen at War: Violence Against the Filipina (Part 2)
When it comes to sexual violence, one in ten women have experienced sexual violence or rape. 8% of Filipinas have experienced sexual violence at the hands of their husbands. One in 25 women between the...
View ArticlePssst… Tama ba ang water bill mo?
The country was not spared from the meltdown of the current global economy. With the unconcealed increased rates of electricity bills, gas, and food, we continuously struggle to make ends meet while we...
View ArticleHow to help disaster victims (the creative but practical way)
The recent Habagat brought about some of the worst destruction of the year and at the same time, put a spotlight on some of the best attributes of the Filipino people. Stepping up If there’s something...
View ArticleThe Outstanding Principals (TOPS) Awards – Recognizing the Leader Behind the...
As we look back during our childhood days, there was always that someone who was always there for us, with a ready smile on her face as she painstakingly taught us about the wonders of the world. There...
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