From Washington to Manila to Vegas, baby!

As far as Manila is concerned, the Obama fever and honeymoon period is over. While it is true that most Filipinos are happy for the historic win of the first African American President of the most powerful nation in the world, Pinoys are naturally shoulder shruggers and take the wait-and-see attitude hoping that the Change [...]

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To be color blind…

There are over 150 dialects in the Philippine Archipelago. Various schools dispute the fact that these are not dialects but languages. So there is an ongoing debate whether it’s Language or Dialect…potato, patata…tomato, tomata. I don’t want to get into that. Let the linguists battle in that arena. Anyway, since there are 150 dialects (or [...]

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Yes they can!

Facebook is amazing. You can get instant updates from friends and relatives who are thousands of miles away and in different time zones. It sure is a lot cheaper than calling them on the phone. But you already know that. What I really appreciate is the fact that you could tell everyone how even your [...]

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Change Has Come…with a new puppy.

This is a historic day for The United States of America. As I write this, it’s only been 3 hours since Barack Obama spoke in front of a huge congratulating crowd in Chicago. His speech was as powerful as expected and thousands of folks in the crowd were in tears. Though the crowd was expected [...]

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