Lately we commemorate the people who died in 9/11 or the Twin tower tragedy that happened on 2001. It is that day when a passenger plane was hijacked and hit the first building of twin tower. Then few minutes later, another plane hit the second tower. Fire and smoke billow the area
Yey! It's new year time, a season of fresh start from the past 365 days we spent behind. Have you made a resolution before? It's a list of things you want to improve about yourself. Most listed there was connected to removing of bad habits or attitudes or personality or anything else you want to make new. However, change requires sacrifice. If we don't put an extra effort to our resolution, it is mostly likely to be a wishful thinking again. And it can be frustrating to find out that your New Year's resolution today is your
Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! But I don't believe in Santa. I believe in Jesus more.
Philippines has a great variety on celebrating Christmas. There came the food plus family gathering plus gift-giving plus Evening Mass plus Christmas Caroling. And caroling pictures out a large tin can covered with plastic and tied with rubber band to make a drum. It reminds me of bottle cups hammered to become as thin as it could, holed at the center, attached to a metal wire that creates tambourines.
Caroling hits me with a 7 pm high pitched children singing "Ang pasko ay sumapit..." or Christmas came. The end of their song would be a shout of errand, "Namamasko po!" There you'll have to decide whether to
When is your birthday? Have you been extracted through Cesarean Section or Normal delivery? In our country we have a native maternity custom called "hilot" or massage. Basically the practitioner of hilot, probably an old woman, is massaging the mother's belly and must be synchronized to its contraction to extract the baby. Hilot practitioners are not
