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ABS CBN News | MA-NILA, Philippine, 3/23/2012 – Foreign tourist arrivals in the country hit a record monthly high in January, breaching the 400,000 mark for the fi rst time.

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On March 24, 2012, the Filipino American Community Empowerment (F.A.C.E.) hosted a historic mayoral debate specifi cally aimed to address the Filipino community and their needs as Americans, as San Diegans and as Filipinos. Presidents and leaders from active and prominent Fil-Am organiza-tions throughout San Diego joined and over one hundred fi fty members of the community ranging from students to seniors were in attendance. Attendees eagerly awaited to hear what the Mayoral candidates plans were for San Diego. Of the four attendees invited and confi rmed, City Councilman Carl DeMaio was unable to attend due to a last minute confl ict in schedule.

Like most Mayoral debates, the jabs and banter were thrown back and forth amongst the three candidates. The community not only received information but a little bit of amusing entertainment.

The event was benefi cial for both the candidates and the audience because both experienced a hopeful glimmer of what the future of San Diego could be for the Filipino-American community especially when they get engaged and hold elected public offi cials who serve them ac-countable.

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Mercito Gesta

By Zena Sultana Babao

SAN DIEGO, CA - Undefeated Filipino southpaw Mercito “No Mercy” Gesta, 24, the cur-rent WBO Youth Light-weight Champion, holds an enviable record of 24 wins, 12 knockouts, 0 defeats and 1 draw. He is ranked #2 at 135 pounds and # 27 at 140 pounds by the World Boxing Organi-zation (WBO).

Of Mercito’s 24 wins, 13 of them were here in America and 11 in the Philippines.

He won the Junior Light-weight title in 2010 in Florida in the North American Boxing Or-ganization’s championship bout

against Oscar Meza of Mexico. Last Novem-ber 11, Mercito fought and defeated Ricardo Dominguez, Mexico’s Lightweight Champion, in a non-championship bout held at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

At a recent bout at the Hard Rock Hotel in San

Diego’s Gaslamp Quar-ter, Mercito electrifi ed the crowd as he stomped across the ring in

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According to the source, many of the Filipinos who worked on

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‘Big part of population nearing working age’

By: Michelle V. Remo, Philippine Daily Inquirer | MANILA, 3/23/2012 -- Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on Wednesday wooed foreign investors to do business in the Philippines, claiming that the country was to enter a sweet spot where enterprises could reap “demographic dividends” resulting from the rising proportion of young,

consumption-driven workforce.In a speech during an investment

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Consumption is a key driver of economic growth for the Philippines, but Tetangco said the contributions of consumption would be even more pro-nounced in the next few years as more young and educated Filipinos enter the workforce.

“The ‘demographic window’ is that period in an economy’s history where a prominent portion of the population is of working age. These people have the purchasing power that can drive con-sumption, encourage investments, and thus accelerate growth of the econo-my,” Tetangco said before members of the business community, including representatives from foreign fi rms.

“We [the Philippines] will have reached that window by 2015,” the central bank governor stressed in his speech delivered during the forum, which was held in Makati City and organized by Euromoney, an interna-tional business publication.

Citing offi cial statistics, Tetangco said the current average age of Filipi-nos was 22.2 years, indicating a signifi -cant portion of the country’s population with the capacity to improve household incomes and increase the economy’s overall productivity over the next few years.

By Pia Lee Brago (The Philippine Star) | MANILA, 3/29/2012 - The European Union (EU) on Tues-day said it continues to support a peaceful resolution to the dis-puted South China Sea.

China, Philippines, Ma-laysia, Brunei, Vietnam and Taiwan all claim territory in the South China Sea.

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Sisa came to the United States in 1985 based on the immigrant peti-tion fi led by her only son Crispin. Except for one month every summer when she would return to the Philip-pines to visit her only sister, she devoted her time caring for Crispin‘s growing family.. She was cook, nanny, housekeeper and even an oc-casional gardener for the family. For her efforts, her doting son provided her with a generous monthly salary and Sisa religiously would send half to her sister in the Philippines. On weekends when the family would go shopping, Sisa never failed to buy her sister whatever she would buy for herself and more. A ready Balik-bayan box was in the family garage ready to be shipped once full. Last year, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Since her sister had no other living relative, Sisa rushed back to the Philippines to care for her. Mi-raculously, her sister got better and after 9 months she returned to the United States. At the port of entry she was detained for questioning be-cause she was returning to the U.S. after more than 6 months. Crispin suggested to his mother to fi le for naturalization so that she would not encounter any problem returning to the U.S. in case she needed to stay in the Philippine for a longer period . Sisa who is now 72 is hesitant to apply for naturalization for two reasons: (1) she had stayed outside the United States for more than six (6) months; and (2) since she hardly speaks or writes in English she may not pass the English test and cor-rectly answer questions regarding U.S. history and government.

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(1) For an applicant who is mar-ried to a U.S. citizen, the applicant must have been a U.S. resident for 3 years after obtaining lawful perma-nent resident status; applicant’s U.S. citizen spouse must have been a U.S. citizen for 3 years; and the applicant and the spouse must have been mar-ried and living together for 3 years.

(2) For an applicant who is not married to a U.S. citizen spouse, the residency requirement is 5 years after obtaining lawful permanent resident status.

An absence of 6 months (but less than 1 year) raises a rebuttable presumption that the continuity of residence may have been dis-rupted. This rebuttable presumption, however, can be overturned by a showing that applicant had no intent of abandoning her U.S. residence such as: (i) applicant’s immediate family live in the U.S.; (ii) applicant retained full access to a U.S. home; (iii) applicant continues to be em-ployed in the United States; and (iv)

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have been absent from the U.S. for 9 months, she may still meet the residency requirement by showing that her son and his family continue to live in the United States and she has a residence in the U.S. she can return to at any time. She could also add that she is “employed” in the U.S. by her son, Crispin. Additional documents can also be presented to establish that applicant had no intention of abandoning her U.S. residency.

The naturalization applicant is also required to demonstrate knowledge of the English language (ability to read, write and speak English) as well as knowledge and understand-ing of U.S. history and government. However, under section 312(b)(2) of the INA, the English language requirements shall not apply to the following:

(1) persons who are over 50 years old and have lived in the U.S. for pe-riods totaling at least 20 years after obtaining lawful permanent resident status; or

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As to the civics test, section 312(b)

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Presuming that Sisa will be able to

overcome the presumption that she has abandoned her U.S. residency, Sisa who is now 72 years old and has lived in the U.S. for a period totaling 20 years will be exempt from the English test as well as be accorded special consideration in taking the civics test.

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triumph. One reporter said about him, “Gesta is a fi nisher and an en-tertainer to the highest degree. He is a certifi ed banger. Don’t let his baby face looks and his articulate conversation fool you. Once the lightweight left-hander laces up his gloves and pops in his mouthpiece, he is all business.”

Mercito has the skills necessary to make him a big star. He is talented, young, and eager to make it to the big-ger stage. He is fast with his counters, quick with both his left and right, and although he fi ghts as a south paw, he was born right-handed.

Boxing is easy for him because he is a champion Muay Thai fi ghter, a martial arts fi ghting system which make use of hands, elbows, knees and feet. When he was 12, Mercito started fi ghting in Muay Thai competitions in Cebu (Philippines) and he has a record win of 31-0. When he turned 16, he switched to boxing per his Dad’s advice.

Mercito’s perfect record caught the eye of Top-Rank CEO Bob Arum, who signed him up to a multi-year contract. Top Rank Promotions is one of the biggest promotional companies in the United States. Arum was amazed after Mercito knocked out Jose Pimentel in 2011 at the Home Depot Center in Car-son City, California, in his debut fi ght under Top-Rank Promotions.

This young boxer, known as “No Mer-cy” in the ring, is compared favorably

with the great Manny Pacquaio, and Bob Arum even proclaimed him as “the next Manny Pacquaio.” Young, agile, strong and very personable, Mercito cuts quite a formidable and amazing fi gure in the ring. In some of his fi ghts, he sports the “3 stars and sun” Philippine national emblem on his shaved head and a fl ashy tattoo on his right shoulder and chest.

Mercito is as low-key and humble as his ring idol Manny Pacquaio, but he makes it clear that while he is proud of his roots in Cebu, his visual personality distinguishes him from the world’s most famous Pinoy.

“Manny is the one who opened the doors for Filipino fi ghters,” Mercito said. “That’s why promoters are inter-ested in us now. He’s helped us a lot. But Manny is Manny and I am differ-ent. I look up to what he did and his trailblazing efforts, but my main thing is how to make my own name in boxing. I am content to be my own man.”

Mercito will be matched against Jose Alfaro, former World Lightweight Champion, on Saturday, April 14, 2012, as a supporting event at the Top Rank Promotions bout between Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Richard Abril at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Alfaro is a Nicaraguan boxer with a record of 20-3-0-1 (18 knockouts) who captured the vacant WBA lightweight title against Thai Pravet Singwancha in a split decision in Dec 2007 in Bielefeld, Germany. He later lost his title in 2008 to Yusuke Kobore who knocked him out in the third round.

In the main event, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios was originally slated to fi ght Yuriokis Gamboa, but Gamboa bailed

out last week on this major HBO fi ght in a contract dispute with promoter Top Rank. Instead, Rios will face Richard Abril, Top Rank announced. After Gamboa dropped out – eliciting a breach of contract suit from Top Rank – HBO elected to scrap the April 14 telecast when it could not come to an agreement with Top Rank on a replacement op-ponent for Rios.

But Top Rank said the April 14 bout would go on at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas even without HBO’s hefty fi nan-cial backing. Top Rank signed Abril to face Rios and will package the fi ght as part of a $44.95 split-site pay-per-view card that will include Mexican star Juan Manuel Marquez.

This Las Vegas event will be Mer-cito’s last tune-up fi ght before his World Championship title bout in the 140-pound Junior Welterweight Division, most possibly against Juan Manuel Marquez (Pacquaio’s latest opponent) to be held July 14, 2012, at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

Mercito’s remarkable story began in his hometown in Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines, where his father, Anecito Gesta, owner of C-MAC (Cito’s Martial Arts Club), introduced him to Muay Thai, a combative martial art from Thailand.

“My dad was a professional Muay Thai and MMA (mixed martial arts) fi ghter in the Philippines but he used to box amateur when he was a kid,” recalled Mercito.

Without a prior amateur boxing expe-rience, Mercito became a professional boxer under the able tutelage of his coach, Carl Penalosa, brother of former

two-time boxing world champion Gerry Penalosa, who happened to be the idol of Manny Pacquaio.

A sensational fi ghter at 135 pounds, 5’7’’ height and 68” reach, Mercito was a quick study and in his Philip-pine bouts, won 11-0 from 2003-2005 against Edwin Picardal, Terry Tayao, Renato Nival, Sherwin Daguhoy, Christ Dujali, Roldan Malinao, Alex Guevarra, Rey Llagas and Lee Escobido.

When the “Manny-mania” reached fevered-pitch here in America, there was a sudden demand for fi ghters from the Pacifi c Rim. Mercito came to the United States and started training at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood in Los Angeles. The Wild Card Gym, owned by legendary boxing trainer Freddy Roach, became the Mecca of aspiring young Filipino boxers hoping to make it big in America. At one point, Manny Pacquaio personally managed Mer-cito and even let him stay at Manny’s Palazzo apartment in L.A.

Later Mercito moved to Las Vegas. Now, he calls San Diego, America’s fi n-est city, his home.

“I love it here in San Diego,” Mercito said. “I like the climate, I like the beaches, and it’s also quiet. It’s not crazy like Los Angeles. There are a lot of Filipinos, and a lot of Visayan- speak-ing Filipinos.” There is also a big fan base, not only in San Diego, but in other cities as well, thanks mainly to fans of Manny Pacquaio who are on the lookout for potential successors once the “Pac-man” calls it a career.

From 2007 to 2011, Mercito won 13


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The Aging Summit is one of the events the Aging and Indepen-dence Services Advisory Council works on every year. The council works year-round on issues such as technology, housing and nu-trition for seniors and disabled adults.

County News Center | SAN DIEGO, 3/27/2012 -- “It’s really been a fulfill-ing thing,” said Jack Duff, the current president of the group. “In retirement you need things to do and you need a little bit of a challenge.”

The council acts as a liaison for AIS in

the community, basically acting as a set of eyes and ears on issues affecting se-niors and disabled adults and their needs. They are especially in need of Asian, Hispanic and Native American seniors.

“Most of the feedback comes through our own information centers,” said Bob

Involved Seniors Help OthersIf you’re a San Diego County older adult and you’re looking for a good time here is a suggestion for you: join the county’s Aging and Independence Services (AIS) Advisory Council where you can advise the county on services provided for older

adults and disabled people. A week-long series of events de-signed to inspire and empower San Diego County women is back for

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DIEGO, 3/23/2012 -- San Diego Women’s Week 2012, hosted by the San Diego North Chamber of Com-merce and sponsored by the County of San Diego and more than two dozen businesses and organizations features nationally-known speakers, breakout sessions and networking opportunities.

The list of speakers includes Dr. Michael Moreno, author of “The 17-Day Diet”; Tanya Brown, sister of Nicole Brown Simpson; Tina Mick-elson, PGA golf professional and Sam Zien, better known as Sam the

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Here is a rundown of events: Monday, March 26, 5:30 – 7:30

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Wednesday, March 28, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Bellus Academy, 13266 Poway Road, tickets $20 – Ladies Night Out featuring the Bellus Beauty Battle Event. Speakers include Dr. James Chao, DeeDee Marcelli, Dr. Howard Murad and Dr. Donna

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Prath, a former two-time president of the council. “We go through feedback from the public and we seek our own grassroots advice.

“Most of us are involved in our local senior or nutrition centers in our com-munities.”

“Our AIS Advisory Council members don’t just advise; these dedicated volun-teers actively participate on our commit-tees, and with our events and meetings,” said Pam Smith, AIS Director. “The individuals on this board are active in the community in other ways, as well, and provide tremendous perspective on what’s working and what’s needed.

“We count on their inspiration and wisdom.”

And members of the council do indeed bring a lot of wisdom to the table, as well as experience and an eagerness to serve and make a difference. The oldest current member of the council is 93.

There are 30 representatives on the council and each San Diego County Board of Supervisors member appoints two positions. The rest are selected to serve after they file an application with the county. In accordance with the Older Americans Act, the council needs to be representative of the community based on geography, income and diversity.

The time commitment is relatively small. Members meet once a month (the second Monday of the month) at the AIS offices in Kearny Mesa. Meetings start at noon and last about two hours.

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Yes, it really is workGreetings from Hawai’i. For the

past few days I’ve been attending the Pacifi c Rim Conference on Dis-abilities and Diversity in Honolulu. Dr. Wendy Chung and I gave a presentation on balancing cultures entitled Exploration of a Cultural Balancing Act.

We all balance assorted cultures. Some are age related, some are

related to our heritages, and some are related to our identities. The cultural balancing act Dr. hung and I discussed has to do with how people change their cultural identity based on disability.

This was our presentation: Exploration of a Cultural Bal-

ancing ActA Hybrid Cultural Identity: Con-

templating the Role of Disability or Redefi ning the Cultural Self to

Integrate Notions of Disability We focused on “how membership

in a culture that includes a disability has stark similarities to those in mi-nority cultures. We examined the ex-

periences of both the newly disabled (propelled into a cultural experience by accident or post-birth cause) and those who were born into the culture. The experiences are quite different, so we talked about the process of forming a new cultural identity that includes a disability (a culture different from the one with which you have been accustomed).

The presentation was part of a greater work of research that Dr. Chung and I have been involved in that delves into how disabled indi-viduals are perceived and how they are integrated into other cultures and how that integration is portrayed.

One of the preeminent conferences

on this topic and offered by the Center on Disability Studies, Col-lege of Education at University of Hawai’i, “The International Pacifi c Rim Conference (Pac Rim) on Dis-

Pacifi c Rim Conference on Disabilities and Diversity

ability & Diversity has been widely recognized over the past 27 years as one of the most “diverse gatherings” in the world.

The event encourages and respects voices from diverse perspectives across numerous areas, including: voices from persons representing all disability areas; experiences of fam-ily members and supporters across all disability areas; responsiveness to diverse cultural and language differences; evidence of researchers and academics studying disability; stories of persons providing power-ful lessons; examples of program providers, natural supports and allies of persons with disabilities and; ac-tion plans to meet human and social needs in a globalized world.” “Each year the conference hews to its traditional areas which have bred much of the interdisciplinary re-search and educational advances of the last three decades. But each year new topics are introduced to foment discussion and change. The intent is to harness the tremendous synergy as generated by the intermingling of these diverse perspectives, thus, creating a powerful program which

impacts each individual participant in his or her own unique way.”

This was my second and Dr. Chung’s fi rst Pacifi c Rim Confer-ence. It won’t be our last, of course, because there are few chances to meet, teach, and learn that come anywhere near it.

The rest of the time…My family usually doesn’t come

with me for conferences. Kids have school, my wife has work, and well, life gets in the way. This time, how-ever, everyone came along. It was spring break for everyone and the conference was in Honolulu. While I was at the conference the family played, had fun, and shopped. The best of work, play, and family.

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Top: Paige in a kid-sized waterfallBottom: Ryan enjoying the water

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Guest Writer: Willie D. RacelisFOREWORD by Dr. Ofelia Dirige

-- Kalusugan Community Services will be sponsoring the “Riz A. Oades Memorial Charity Golf” tourna-ment on April 28, Saturday, at the Eastlake Country Club located at Eastlake Country Club, 2375 Club-house Drive, Chula Vista, 91915, Tel. (619)- 482-5757. This tourna-ment is held in collaboration with the Fore Organized Golf (FOG) Group, founded by Femie Cupit, one of the leading local golf organizers in San Diego.

This event is not only for fun and health but to benefi t KCS’ programs and activities. Most of all, proceeds from this fund raiser will support the programs of KCS. The current recession threatens the survival of KCS, limiting and disrupting pro-grams and activities for the commu-nity so we need funds to sustain the organization. We would also honor our late Founder and President, Dr. Riz A. Oades, who passed away in October 8, 2009. His 77th birthday was March 27, 2012. He was our mentor, guide, inspiration, and his pioneering spirit propelled KCS to what it is today.

There are several benefi ts for participating at this event. First, it provides fun and entertainment for the golfer and his/her family and networking with fellow golfers and other golfi ng enthusiasts all over San Diego (SD) County. Since this is a sport, it provides physical activity exercising most parts of the body that is benefi cial for the prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes

that are major killers of the Filipino American (FilAm) population.

Here is what Willie Racelis, chair of the Riz Oades Memorial Golf Tournament, say “why he plays golf”:

WILLIE RACELIS

In my younger years, I was a huge fan of the Boston Celtics and the Crispa Redmanizers. I tried to copy the moves of Sam Jones, John Havlicek, Danny Florencio, and Adriano Papa Jr. I thought I had the speed and the shooting prowess of my idols. As I got older and on the urging of my father, I took up chess. The Fischer-Spassky chess champi-onship fueled my interest in chess. I read chess books and magazines. I joined chess tournaments and simuls. I thought I did well in chess. I was even an arbiter in a couple of tournaments. When tennis boomed, I jumped on the bandwagon. I took formal tennis lessons and I devel-oped a wicked kick serve and decent game. I followed closely the games of Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe,

Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl. As my age advanced, I found that

my body could no longer stand the rigors of tennis and basketball. Not wanting to get tennis elbow or a bum knee, I gradually slid into a sedentary lifestyle, until my son-in-law introduced me to golf. At fi rst, I thought the game was rather stupid and easy. You hit the ball, walk to it and hit it again until you sink it. I later found out that it was not at all easy.

As my son-in-law suggested, I went to the driving range to get the feel of hitting balls. The moment I hit the ball fl ush and straight, I was hooked. It was the same feeling I had when I fi rst hit a tennis ball over the net and inside the baseline.

With some trepidation and anxiety, I began to play at a golf course. I scored 124 in my fi rst game. Its 52 strokes way over par and for some, it would mean the end of any preten-sions of being a golfer. For me, though, it was different. I had fun. It didn’t matter to me that I fl ubbed every shot. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed playing out in the open and walking on grass. I enjoyed the beauty of the course. I enjoyed the conversation and banter with my fellow players.

Just like chess, golf takes your mind off the everyday concerns. You just focused on the stroke. Just like chess, golf requires some imagina-tion. In large part, golf is a mental game. Typically, a round of 18 holes will take about 4 1/2 hours to com-plete. For non-players this would seem to be an eternity. Golfers will hardly notice the time.

I play golf regularly now. I meet new friends at the course and we seem to share the same fascination about the game. I now follow the games of Phil Mickelson, Fred-die Couples, Rory Mcilroy, Luke Donald and Tom Watson. Not a day passes without me watching The Golf Channel.

On April 28th, I will play at the Riz A Oades Memorial Charity Golf at Eastlake Country Club. The course is one of the best in San Diego, and the charity golf tourna-ment will raise funds for one of the non-profi t organizations in National

City deserving of public support - Kalusugan Community Services. Its tag line “Play for Fun, Golf for a Cause” certainly rings true to me.

RIZ A. OADES MEMORIAL GOLF: YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP!!!!!!!

For players, check-in begins at 6:30 AM followed by a breakfast and a driving range competition. The reverse “Shotgun” competition starts at 7:30 AM. Cost for individual player is $95.00 and foursome is $360 ( special discount of $320 if payment received before April 1). There will be many fun activities and surprises along the way such as raffl es and games for those who are there with their spouses, friends and family. Lunch will be at 12 noon followed by an awards ceremony. Individual non-players pay $20 for lunch.

There are many ways that one can help and participate in this event. One can still be a sponsor at this late date. The ones remaining are: Title Sponsor- $2,500; Corporate Sponsor- $2,000; Hole-in-One Sponsor- $1,500; Practice Range Sponsor- $500; Volunteer Sponsor -$300; and Player Gifts, Prizes and Award Sponsors- $50.00 to $275. Sponsors receive different amenities depending on level of sponsorship, golf tickets and plaque or certifi cate of appreciation for their donations. Golf ticket includes breakfast, range balls, player gift pack, 18 hole-golf with cart, lunch and awards cer-emony.

One may also place an ad in the program book to advertise their company or programs. The book contains information on all activi-ties, sponsors, and individuals as-sociated with the event. This will be distributed to all who participated in the Riz Oades Charity Golf as well as leaders of the FilAm community. Ranges for ads are: Full page $100, Half-page $75; ¼ page $50 and Business card $25.

For information about sponsoring, placing an ad, playing, and volun-teering, please contact Fore Orga-nized Golf at (858) 220-5487, Willie D. Racelis at (619) 405-2603/email: [email protected] or Nori Gamboa at (760) 274-4817/email: [email protected].

Why I Play Golf

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Opinion

By Cesar D. Candari, MD. FCAP Emeritus

By Cesar D. Candari, MD. FCAP Emeritus

The inscrutability in the title catches your eye. Once I was asked by a group of concerned citizens of a Filipino American Community Organizations of San Diego to be a member of an Ad Hoc Committee to help mediate and bring together two indi-viduals in the Community, one, his 49 years old son and the other his brilliant father. The latter is a leader in the community. The son is an aspiring American born but with a shallow conscience. He disliked his father. Like a typical Filipino psyche, he threat-ened to kill his dad for no other reason but leadership. Roy A., the son is a deranged person. He has diffi culties perhaps products of the Filipino psyche, “our pride, our intel-ligence, our “amor propio,” our culture, our loss of face, and concern for our sign of weakness or surrender.”

There is an amusing similarities between primates and humans in peacemaking abili-ties/scenario.

I wrote a commentary entitled, “Primates do better job of resolving differences than human counterparts” published in the Filipino Press in San Diego, where I was a contributing columnist for a long time.

Frans de Waal, an author of a fascinating and marvelous book entitled “Peacemaking among Primates”, have a marvelous take on the visible elements, leaving the roots the business of the likes of Darwin and Dawk-ins. He is a pioneer in looking specifi cally for how confl ict resolution varies among the various species, and how the various genetic traits interact to create individual

A Filipino-American son who wished to kill his father.

Beware of this man!


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Immigration 911

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IMMIGRATION 911 by Atty. Susan V. Perez | SAN DIEGO, 3/30/2012 -- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on March 27, 2012, that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 cap on Monday April 2, 2012. The congressionally mandated numerical limitation on H-1B petitions for FY 2013 is 65,000. Additionally, the fi rst 20,000 H-1B petitions fi led on behalf of individuals who have earned a U.S. master’s degree or higher are exempt from the fi scal year cap.

USCIS will monitor the number of

petitions received and will notify the public of the date on which USCIS received the necessary number of peti-tions to meet the H-1B cap. If the num-ber of applications received exceeds the numerical cap, USCIS will randomly select the number of petitions required to reach the numerical limit from the pool of petitions received on the fi nal receipt date. USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions that are not selected, as well as those received after the fi nal receipt date. Cases will be considered accepted on the date that USCIS takes possession of a properly fi led petition with the correct fee. USCIS will not rely upon the date that the petition is postmarked.

Petitions for new H-1B employment are exempt from the annual cap if the benefi ciaries will work at institutions of higher education or related or affi liated nonprofi t entities, nonprofi t research organizations or governmental research organizations. Petitions fi led on behalf of benefi ciaries who will work only in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are exempt from the cap until December 31, 2014. Employers may continue to fi le petitions for these cap-exempt H-1B categories seeking work dates starting in FY 2012.

Petitions fi led on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap also do not count towards the congressionally man-dated H-1B cap. Accordingly, USCIS will continue to process FY 2012 peti-tions fi led to: 1) extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States; 2) change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers; 3) allow current H-1B work-ers to change employers; or 4) allow current H-1B workers to work concur-rently in a second H-1B position.

The H-1B program allows employers to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in a specialized

fi eld and a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent. Typical H-1B occupations include architects, engineers, computer programmers, accountants, doctors and college professors. The H-1B nonim-migrant visa category is popular be-cause of its basic feature-- qualifi cation in an occupation that usually requires a college degree. This can be easily met by a lot of foreign workers especially the Filipinos. The Filipino culture highly regards education as an impor-tant part of life. A lot of colleges in the Philippines made it to the list of top universities of the world and Asia. In

my experience, a degree from a college or university in the Philippines qualifi es for a U.S. bachelor’s degree equivalent. A foreign-educated applicant needs his/her credentials evaluation by an ac-credited evaluation agency to determine if his/her foreign degree is equivalent to a U.S. degree. The law permits a foreign worker to qualify for a specialty occupation based on experience that is equivalent to a bachelor’s degree. For example, Juan completed a two-year course in computer programming but has ten years work experience in this fi eld. His work experience may wholly substitute for a U.S. bachelor’s degree.

The next H-1B season will start on April 2, 2012, with an employment start date of October 1, 2012. This means that if you plan to stay in the United States while waiting for the H-1B visa approval, your I-94 should be valid until October 1. If you are in the U.S on a visitor visa, make sure that you’re authorized to stay in the U.S. until Oc-tober 1, 2012. Otherwise, your applica-tion for change of status (COS) will be denied. This is without prejudice to the H-1B approval. If COS is denied, you can go to your consular offi ce and present your H-1B approval there. The consular offi ce will determine if you are entitled to the visa or not. The consular offi ce is not bound by the decision of USCIS. The consular offi ce may ask for more documents or deny your H-1B petition.

For students who are applying for a change of status to H-1B, the rules are more relaxed. The April 2008 regula-tion helps students who are applying for a change of status to H-1B who are in two different predicaments: (i) those in the 60-day regulatory “grace period” on April 2, and (ii) those still working in practical training on an employment authorization document that will expire before October 1. The fi rst group, i.e., in the grace period, are treated differ-ently depending on whether their H-1B petition is accepted for processing. If

it is accepted, they may remain in the United States until October 1 if their H-1B petition is chosen, but they may not work. Students in the grace period on April 2 whose H-1B petition is not accepted for processing may remain in the United States for an additional 60 days after they are notifi ed their peti-tion was not accepted or was denied. Students in the second group, those who are working on optional practical training on April 2 and whose H-1B petition is accepted for processing, will automatically have both their stay and work authorization extended to cover the time period between the end of their optional practical training and October 1, when their H-1B employment begins.

To obtain an H-1B visa, a foreign national must fi rst fi nd an employer or sponsor. Then your attorney can take care of the rest. An H-1B visa is typically valid up to six (6) years and entitles your spouse and children to accompany you and live in the United States.

We welcome your feedback. If you have any immigration questions, please feel welcome to email me at [email protected] or call 619 819 -8648 to arrange for a telephone consultation.

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Give F.A.C.E. a Voice

FACE with Candidates. In order from Left to Right: Melissa Meci-ja (10News), Jen Lebron Kuhney (U-T San Diego), Arthur Teodosio, Jr., District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, Congressman Bob Filner, As-semblyman Nathan Flethcher, Julius Alejandro, Marlon Saria, Alyssa DeGuzman, Elaine Valdez, and Jay Mendoza Montenegro.

(Continued from page 1)

Community

San Diego County District Attor-ney Bonnie M. Dumanis, announced her offi ce hosted a 10-week edu-cational program for students that culminated in a mock trial for fi fth grade students at two San Diego-area schools.

“I’m proud of the students and legal professionals who came together over the last 10 weeks to inspire each other,” DA Dumanis said. “Children are our future and we should invest in them early on to give them the tools they need to be successful.”

Project LEAD is an educational program made possible by the col-laboration of the San Diego District Attorney’s Offi ce, the Superior Court, the San Diego County Proba-tion Department, the United States

Probation Offi ce and La Raza Lawyers Association of San Diego.

Program members worked in teams to fa-cilitate weekly lessons for 10 consecu-tive weeks in three fi fth grade classrooms at Laura Rodriguez and Johnson elementary schools. The course included a tour of the East Mesa Juvenile Deten-tion Facility and culminated in a mock trial and award luncheon at the courthouse.

The program utilized lesson plans

DA’s Offi ce Hosts Mock Trial Event for Fifth Grade Students

County asking them to become more engaged and involved in creating what will be the future of San Diego.

Ultimately F.A.C.E. is going to endorse candidates and proposi-tions that best express the needs of the community as a whole. The fact that this organization is endorsing is very controversial but in order for our community to have a voice, we need to take a stand. Having a voice begins with deciding which people we like to represent us, which initiatives

and propositions are supportive of our long term growth of our Fil-Am / Am-Fil communities and our greater regional San Diego community as a whole. The real work truly begins when we hold those we elect to rep-resent us accountable to the prom-ises that they made before they held public offi ce.

In the bigger picture, endorsement is minor compared to the massive undertaking of mending fences, build-ing bridges and uniting the Filipino American community.

Is the community ready to put their differences aside to come together

and act as One? Or will that take a miracle?

I guess you can say in a sense that I am very Filipino in a lot of ways. Ruled by my heart (seemingly at my

own expense like many Filipinos), and like my parents, I want to see a better, brighter tomorrow. One where, despite our differences, we can fi nd common ground and begin to stand for something. One where my family and kids one day can have a voice and know that they are a necessary and integral part of San Diego’s history, present and future.

I am American but my heritage calls me back. The legacy that our parents have left

us making us uniquely Filipino is simple but very profound and can be found in the 3 F’s of what it means to

be Filipino: Food, Family and Faith. I hope and have faith that we can come together, celebrate our struggle and growth, and reunite as a family to make a positive change for tomorrow.

We cannot do this alone. We need your time, your dedication and your love for the community. Please participate by attending and joining us to “give your face a voice”? Every person, especially when we all come together, makes all the difference.

F.A.C.E. is comprised of passionate, young, dedicated leaders with diverse backgrounds and professions: Jay Montenegro, Julius Alejandro, Femie Cupit, Alyssa Deguzman, Lauren Garces, Antonette Paguio, Norliza Rodriguez, Marlon Saria, Art Teodisio Jr., Elaine Valdez and hopefully, YOU.

To join F.A.C.E. or for more infor-mation, log on to www.fi lamvote.org.

Project LEAD Provides Positive Values and Confl ict Resolution Skills

consisting of instruction on the criminal justice system and other social issues. The curriculum aims to instill positive values in students and help them develop self-esteem, confl ict resolution skills, and the ability to resist peer pressure.

City of San Diego Mayoral candidates Dumanis, Filner and Fletcher


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by Atty. Rogelio Karagdag, Jr.Member, State Bar of California & Integrated Bar of the Philippines

Phil - Am Law 101

I was watching a replay of the testimony of former Mayor Lito Atienza the other day. A few things bothered me.

Cristina R. Corona derived her authority to sign on behalf of BGEI, owners of the Bustillos/Legarda property from a mere Corporate Secretary’s Certifi cate that a Board Resolution existed appointing her as an “agent” entitled to receive a sales commission of 5%, plus some gen-eral powers related to the property.The certifi cate did not include an actual Board Resolution. Neither was a Special Power of Attorney appointing Cristina R. Corona to negotiate and consummate a Deed of Sale relating to the property. In real estate sales, a Special Power of Attorney specifying and describing the property and the special powers of the Attorney-in-Fact is necessary if the owner is represented in his absence.The certifi cate is dated and signed in 1987, which is 14 years old at the time the Deed of Sale was consum-mated, by Cristina Corona and the City of Manila. The former Mayor and his staff did not bother to check whether the corporation still existed, whether the stockholders and the offi cers and directors were still the same. He and his staff did not ask

for a more current authorization, board resolution, and Special Power of Attorney. There was no due dili-gence exercised.Atienza took pride in being able to negotiate a good price on behalf of the taxpayers of Manila by getting the Coronas to agree on a price of P34, 000/sq. meter. This is suppos-edly closer to the budget allotted, which is P30 million to expropriate the property per Ordinance #1795 (from my memory).

The lot involved is 1020.70 sq. meters in area. So, considering that the City did not have to incur additional costs for expropriation proceedings and having been pres-sured by time, it did seem reasonable and satisfactory.I replayed the part where Atienza read aloud the provisions of Ordi-nance # 1795 where it said that the amount appropriated is P30 million to pay Basa-Guidote Mercantile (Not

Enterprise), Inc. for the purchase of a lot the land area of which is 4643.7 sq. meters. By computation, the al-location was to purchase the lot at a price of P6460.37 per sq. meter. But an amount more than P30 million was paid in exchange for a lot much less than the area indicated.

The capital gains tax, documentary stamps and other related costs were on the account of the seller. Priced at about P34, 000/sq. meter, a check paid to Cristina Corona ITF (In Trust For) BGEI, amounting to P34.7 million was issued. Per cancelled check, it was deposited in a Corona account in a Land Bank branch near Malacanang Palace.If it is commingled with the Coro-nas’ personal funds and withdrawals were made for personal use, there is presumption of “misappropriation”. If the contents were transferred to a Renato Corona personal account, which I suspect eventually happened and not to a Trust account set-up specifi cally for the benefi t of BGEI, then, such funds were treated as personal funds of the Coronas and conclusively and indisputably owned by them.

This means, all these funds that became personal deposits of the Co-ronas regardless of the source should have been declared in CJ Justice Corona’s SALN.

Although not relevant to the case at this point, it is now discovered that the title of the property is still under the name of BGEI because of the unpaid taxes. This could have some unexpected consequences for Cristina R. Corona and/or BGEI and for some selected ex-offi cials of the Manila City government.

Indeed, the Queen who is her-self in trouble even with a Sicilian defense led by Black Knight Cuevas, Bishop Oscar Cruz and Pawns like Atienza and other defense witnesses would fi nd it hard saving the Crown (Corona).

A Queen in Trouble Cannot Save The Crown (Corona)

PHIL-AM LAW 101 by Atty. Rogelio Karagdag, Jr., Member, State Bar of California & Integrated Bar of the Philippines

Most cases of adoption have a happy ending. The adoptive parents, usually previously childless, fi nd joy in fi nally able to complete their family and in the satisfaction that they are able to not only care for an abandoned child, but also contribute to betterment of society. The child fi nally fi nds peace, security and identity in the loving arms of his newfound parents. Unfortunately, in a few cases, especially of the adop-tive parents did not have ample time to bond with the child, the relation-ship turns problematic. The adoptive parents want to get out of the adop-tion. Can they still revoke it?

Unfortunately, Philippine law says that the parents can no longer revoke the adoption. In this regard, we fol-low Philippine law for adoptions that were fi nalized in the Philippines, even if the parents and the child are already American citizens and living in the United States. Actually, the adoption can still be revoked, but only the child – and not the adoptive parents – can revoke it. Republic Act No. 8552, otherwise known as the Philippine Domestic Adoption Act of 1998, clearly provides this:

Sec. 19. Ground for Rescission of Adoption.- Upon petition of the adoptee, with the assistance of the Department if a minor or if over eighteen (18) years of age but is not incapacitated, as guardian or coun-sel, the adoption may be rescinded on any of the following grounds committed by the adopter(s): (a) repeated physical and verbal mal-treatment by the adopter(s) despite having undergone counselling; (b) attempt on the life of the adoptee; (c) sexual assault or violence; or (d)

abandonment and failure to comply with parental obligations.

Adoption, being in the interest of the child, shall not be subject to rescission by the adopter(s). How-ever, the adopter(s) may disinherit the adoptee for causes provided in Article 919 of the Civil Code. (Em-phasis ours)

This may sound very unfair to the adoptive parents, especially if the child has committed wrong against them. However, as mentioned above, there is still a way for the parents to protect themselves, and this is by disinheriting the child in their last will. Remember, the adoptive child is considered a legitimate child and therefore legal heir of the adoptive parents. This recourse is available whether the parents are still Filipino citizens or are already naturalized Americans. However, if the parents are already Americans, their last will including the provision in disinheri-tance, will be governed by United States law. In fact, this is explicitly recognized by the Civil Code of the Philippines which provides:

Article 16. Real property as well as personal property is subject to the law of the country where it is stipulated.

However, intestate and testamen-tary successions, both with respect to the order of succession and to the amount of successional rights and to the intrinsic validity of testamentary provisions, shall be regulated by the national law of the person whose succession is under consideration, whatever may be the nature of the property and regardless of the coun-try wherein said property may be found. (10a)

Adoption is a serious matter that carries with it great responsibilities. It is even a more serious commit-ment than marriage because, unlike marriage, there is no divorce or

Adoptive Parents Cannot Revoke Philippine Adoption

annulment in adoption. Parents are stuck in it forever.

Atty. Rogelio Karagdag , Jr. is licensed to practice law in both California and the Philippines. He practices immigration law in San Diego and has continuously been a trial and appellate attorney in the Philippines since 1989. He travels between San Diego and Manila. His offi ce address is located at 10717 Camino Ruiz, Suite 131, San Diego, CA 92126. He also has an offi ce in the Philippines at 1240 Apacible Street, Paco, Manila, Philippines 1007, with telephone numbers (632)522-1199 and (632)526-0326. Please call (858)348-7475/(858)536-4292 or email him at [email protected]. He speaks Tagalog fl uently. Articles written in this column are not legal advice but are hypotheticals intended as gen-eral, non-specifi c legal information. Readers must seek legal consultation before taking any legal steps.


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MANILA, 3/19/2012 -- Panglao Island in Bohol is one of the best secret beaches in the world, ac-cording to an infl uential American magazine.

The island, a well-established tour-ist destination in the Philippines, is one of the 17 areas featured in Travel + Leisure’s “Best Secret Beaches on Earth” feature, which is part of the magazine’s March 2012 issue.

“An hour-long fl ight from Manila to Bohol island followed by a 25-minute drive across a 19th-century causeway brings you to this secluded Central Visayas isle,” author David Keeps wrote in the Travel + Leisure article.

Keeps particularly cited the Anan-yana Beach Resort and Spa, which “occupies a prime spot on a mile-long stretch of sand.”

“The 12 luxe thatched-roof huts have bamboo-framed king-size beds; the al fresco restaurant turns out Filipino-Mediterranean dishes such as penne with pork adobo; and the lounge is outfi tted with regionally made rattan and abaca furniture,” he wrote.

“Hop a resort boat for dolphin watching, diving amid the drop-offs of Balicasag island, or, for the ultimate castaway fantasy, a sunset dinner on deserted Puntod Island,” he added.

The article also recommended other sites in Bohol such as the Bohol Bee Farm, which serves dishes such as homemade ube (purple yam) ice cream, and the Chocolate Hills, which was described as “a surreal wonder of 1,776 dome-shaped hills formed from limestone covered in grass.”

Meanwhile, here are the other beaches that made it to the list of Travel + Leisure’s best secret beaches:Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, MexicoPuako, Big Islang, HawaiiIbo Island, MozambiquePhu Quoc Island, VietnamSalema, PortugalBethany Beach, DelawarePalm Beach, BarbudaCirali Beach, TurkeyKoh Lanta, ThailandGrand Haven, MichiganLord Howe Island, Australia

Bohol’s Panglao Island is one of world’s best secret beaches

It’s more fun in the Philippines

Pyla-sur-Mer, FranceCayucos, CaliforniaAlagoas, Brazil


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Magulong-magulo ang pag-iisip noon ni Nelsonsa kanyang paglakad halatang wala siyang direksyontanging pag-asa lang ang gumagabay sa kanya nuonna sana ay ligtas ang pamilya sa bagyo at lindol.

Hindi dapat balewalain ang pag-asa, Marinapagdating ng panahon kakailanganin mo siya‘di ka niya iiwan sa sandali ng pag-iisamaniwala ka lamang dahil iyan ang mahalaga.

Sabi mo nga, David, minsan ay nagsasawa ka na ngamaghintay ng maghintay, sa pag-asang nawawalatingnan mo ngayon ang nangyari sa lotto ay tumamamalaking pasasalamat ngayon ang iyong nawika.

Ang pag-asa ay nandito lang sa ating kalooban‘di lang sa akin, sa kanya, nasa ating kalahatandamhin mo ng mabuti ang tunay nitong kahulugandahil ‘to ang ilaw natin sa mundo ng kadiliman.

Joke of the Week: A priest had just heard a man’s confession and was pondering the man’s penance. “Are you certain you’re going to try to turn away from all sins?” “Yes, Father, I am certainly going to try hard,” replied the man. “I promise to amend my life.” “And you’re going to go to Mass regularly especially on holy days of obligations?” the priest added. “Yes, Father, I am decided to fulfi ll my obligations as a good Catholic.” “How about your debts and those you have defrauded?” the priest asked. “Now, wait a second, Father,” said the man. “Now, you’re talking business, not religion.”

Scriptures: First Reading: Isaiah 50: 4-7. The exiled people became complacent with the comfort that Babylon offered them to the point that their longing for a return to the Jerusalem was no longer vis-ible in their actions. It seemed that the Israelites had put on hold their desire to be back to the homeland. The people were weary and tired of waiting for the end of the exile in spite of the prophet’s message of deliverance. They have traded their “true security in their true home” to the “false security” of the pagan Babylon. Second Isaiah was given the diffi cult mission of delivering the word that “will rouse” the people, even at the price of his personal suf-fering. He knows that his obedience will pay off in the end because God will vindicate him. Second Reading: Philippians 2: 6-11. The disobedient people have exchanged their true home with the fragile and false se-curity in a foreign land. In contrast, Jesus, the obedient Son of the Most

High, “emptied himself and took the form of a slave,” gave up the glory of heaven and died, but was exalted and gained back what he had given up. In Jesus keeping is losing, giving up is gaining!

Gospel: Mark 15: 1-39 (short form): God’s love has no need for sin and death to manifest itself, yet his love and victory over life’s end became more visible at the Cruci-fi xion of Jesus. The evangelist was stressing the fact that through the prophecies of the Old Testament God had announced to his people the life and death of his Son and Jesus fulfi lled their messianic expectations at the most tragic moment of life: death on the Cross. It is clear that after his Crucifi xion, Jesus is not a false prophet. God had mani-fested his love at his Son’s death on the Cross and had vindicated him against those who doubted his divine origin. This affi rmation came through the lips of an unlikely per-sonality, a pagan Roman centurion who said, “Truly, this man was the Son of God.”

Refl ections: Today is Palm Sun-day of the Lord’s Passion. Tradi-tionally, Jews carry palm branches during festive occasions. Early Christians used the palm branch to symbolize the victory of the faithful over their spiritual enemies, similar to the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, a prelude to his crucifi x-ion. At the Roman catacombs, Chris-tian martyrs were usually depicted holding a palm frond to represent their victory of spirit over fl esh, and a picture of a palm on a tomb meant that a martyr was buried there.

The Paradox of the Cross

The late Fr. Raymond E. Brown in his commentary on the Passion narrative wrote, “The drama of the tragedy has been heightened by con-trasting one character with another.” There is Pilate, afraid of losing his popularity with the people, released a criminal, and condemned an inno-cent man. He sacrifi ced the innocent to maintain his hold on power. (This is still happening in our days. The world has not changed at all!) On the one hand, a crowd welcomed Jesus with shouts of “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes as the King of Israel;” at another time, there are shouts of “Crucify him.” (Going with the fl ow for the sake of conformity is a sign of immaturity!) In the procession the people praised Jesus as King, and then in the passion they insulted and accused him of blasphemy. (This is a clear example of fi ckle minded-ness!) He was welcomed into the city as King and Messiah; later on he was crucifi ed as a criminal outside the city. The crowd struggled against each other to lay their clothes on his path; the soldiers divided his gar-ments later. The scoffi ng religious elders and scribes, and the revil-ing passersby in Golgotha were in sharp contrast to the Roman pagan centurion who recognized him as the Son of God. He was early on hailed as Wonderworker; in the end he was judged a rabble-rouser and dema-gogue. (Cave canem, beware of the underdog, literally.) The Cross is not the end. The Resurrection is!

Because of the dramatic presenta-tion of the Passion narrative, each person is invited to see himself in the different characters. We should ask ourselves how we would have stood in relation to the trial, suf-fering and death of Jesus. With which of the characters would you identify yourself most? Have you found yourself like Peter who denied Jesus because you were afraid or ashamed of practicing your faith? Have you played the role of Judas who betrayed him for monetary gains? Have you acted like Pilate who in order not to lose popular-ity sacrifi ced the truth? Fr. Brown had a message also for the reli-gious leaders when he wrote, “Not Jewish background but religious

mentality is the basic component in the reaction to Jesus.” Fr. Brown believed that very often religious people have a profound and deep commitment to what they have been taught. Jesus was a challenge to the religious conservatives and traditionalists of his time because he wanted them to change their minds and not to present human precepts as God’s commandments. Have you found yourself like the Jewish elders and scribes who believed that they served God and implemented the laws of Moses by presenting their will as God’s will and their personal ideas as God’s? The focus of the story is of course on Jesus. By look-ing deeply into his trials and death on the Cross we should realize how we are living today as Christians.

The word paradox comes from Latin paradoxum “paradox, a state-ment seemingly absurd yet really true,” and from Greek paradoxon, para- “contrary to” + doxa “opin-ion,” from dokein “to appear, seem, think.” The Cross and the sufferings of Christ may look absurd to those without faith. Veridical (Latin verus, true) paradoxes are seeming absurdi-ties but are nevertheless true because they are perfectly logical. St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:18 wrote, “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” To men with faith there is no need to prove that the death of Christ is not absurd. St. Thomas Aquinas said, “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is pos-sible.”

When the Passion narratives are proclaimed and read (at the Pabasa or devotional reading of the Pasyon, a traditional custom among Filipino Catholics) so many times during Holy Week, we should refrain from putting in one basket the individual evangelist perspectives. Fr. Ronald D. Witherup, S.S. wrote that we should avoid blending the Passion stories “into one seamless story and ask, rather, what we learn anew from each retelling and from each indi-vidual evangelist. Like a common picture painted by four different art-ists, we have been given a multifac-eted account of Jesus’ suffering and death. This fourfold model gives us multiple ways to refl ect on how Je-sus’ suffering brought new life into the world, and how we ourselves can face suffering that comes our way.”

When Leonardo da Vinci was painting “The Lord’s Supper,” he chose Pietri Bandinelli an attrac-

tive young man to be his model for Jesus. The complete work took several years to fi nish. Later on, the fi nal character was Judas Iscariot, and Leonardo went out looking for someone who would look as depraved and vicious. He fi nally found the perfect model. Later as he was painting, Leonardo sensed there was something familiar about the man. He asked if they had ever met before. “Yes, we have,” replied the man, “but much has happened in

my life since then.” He said he was Bandinelli, Leonardo’s model for Je-sus some time before. He had fallen from grace to a life of sin!

Quotation of the Week: “In his passion, death and resurrection, we are shown that the last word in human existence is not death but God’s victory over death. Divine love, manifested in its fullness in the paschal mystery, overcomes death and sin, which is its cause.” Pope John Paul ІІ.


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Sobra na ang kahangaan ng mga Pinoy sa Pilipinas dahil sa tinatamong kahusayan ni Jessica Sanchez sa ‘American Idol’, karamihan bukang bibig ang name ng nasabing singer.

Marami na naniniwala na siya ang ta-tanghalin na American Idol this year base sa mga comments na ibinibigay sa kanya ng mga judges sa naturang programa.

Isang bagay ang napuna naming nang minsang ma-interview siya ng TFC at tinanong si Jessica kung sino sa mga pinoy singers ang hinahangaan niya.Mas nauna niyang nabanggit ang name ni Sarah Geronimo kaysa kay Charice.Ibig bang sabihin nito mas idol niya si Sarah compare kay Charice?

Sabagay, mas malapit ang physical feature ni Jessica kay Sarah compare kay Charice na paiba-iba ang hitsura.Medyo conservative ang dating ni Jes-sica, pati ayos ng buhok simple tulad ng kay Sarah at maging sa pananalita ng dalawa parang pareho sila.

Actually naghahanap nga kami ng picture na makamukha silang dalawa kaya lang ,wala pa kaming makita.Pero isang bagay ang napuna namin, mas kino-compare si Jessica kay Charice sa

kahusayan sa pag-awit kaysa kay Sarah dahil marahil nasa international limelight ang dalawa.

Marami pa nga ang nagsasabi na mas gusto raw nila si Jessica ang boses kaysa sa way ng pagkanta ni Charice.Ti-yak, kapag pumunta ng Pilipinas si Jessica at

nag-concert ito isang malaking event ang mangya-yari.

Pero kung kami ang tatanungin,mas gusto namin si Charice ang boses com-pare sa kanya, dahil siguro mas strong at mas matured ang boses.

Sana bago pumunta ng Pilipinas si Jessica, kailangan niya munang mag-perform muna siya rito sa San Diego na kung saan maraming pinoy ang humah-anga sa kanya rito.

MAY BAGO NG DARNA SA KAPAMILYA NETWORK !!! Nakuha na pala ng ABS-CBN ang rights para ip-alabas sa Tv ang mga pinoy heroes tulad ni Darna at Captain Barbel.Alam nyo ba kung sino artistang babae na handa ng lumipad sa himpapawid , etoy walang iba kundi si Cristine Reyes?

Yes si Cristine na ang gaganap bilang

Narda at Darna, nagpakuha na nga ito ng picture with matching costume ni Darna.

Takenote, super sexy na naman ang dar-nang ito.Akala namin kay Angel Locsin eto mapupunta, dahi naging Darna na ito noon sa GMA 7 na umarangkada sa Tv rating noon.Yun pala ang kapatid ni Ara Mina at girlfriend naman ni Rayver Cruz ang siyang napili sa nasabing role.

KRIS AQUINO GUSTONG MAG-AMPON NG ISANG BABY GIRL !!!Natutuwa si Kris Aquino kapag nakikita niya ang kanyang dalawang lalaking anak sa paglaki, kung baga ito ang buhay niya sina Joshua at Bimbi.Pero, alam nyo ba na gusto rin ni Kris na sana nagkaroon din siya ng isang baby girl? Iniisip nga daw niya minsan, bakit hindi siya mag-ampon ng isang baby girl na siya na ang magpapalaki dito.Ayaw pala ni Bimbi na umampon ito ng ibang bata, dahil nagse-selos ang bunsong anak ni Ms. Aquino.

Kesyo lalayas daw

ang anak kapag umampon ito ng isang baby girl, pupunta raw ito kahit saan na siyang ikinatakot ni Kris. Kaya minabuti na lang niya, na huwag mag-ampon at maging satisfied na lang siya sa kanyang dalawang anak na lalake.Yes, sinunod ni Kris ang kagustuhan ni Bimbi, masunur-ing ina.

ANGEL LOCSIN AT MARIAN RIVERA MAGKAROON KAYA NG

BANGGAAN?Gagawa pala ng movie sina Angel Loc-

sin at Dingdong Dante sa Star Cinema.Balita namin co-prod daw

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Mas Hanga si Jessica kay Sarah kaysa kay Charice!!!

ikasusuya ni Marian Rivera kay Angel Locsin.

To think na parehong malaking artista sina Angel at Marian, si Marian ang nag-iisang kapuso Reyna samantalang si Angel naman ay isang kapamilya Reyna(kaya lang hindi niya solo marami sila sa channel 2), kapag naintriga ang dalawa tiyak pag-uusapan ito.

Hindi pa natatapos istorya ng pag-sasama nina Angel at Dingdong, eto ang huling balita namin magsasama isang movie naman sina Marian at Coco Mar-tin, aba bongga.

MUNTIK NANG MAKASAMPAL SI DINA BONNEVIE NG ISANG FEEL-ING SUPERSTAR !!!Alam nyo bang pinag-antay ng isang feeling superstar ng channel 5 (hindi po si Nora Aunor) si Dina Bonnevie sa isang taping para sa isang teleserye? 7am pa lang nandun na si Dina sa location, pero yung feeling superstar na hitad pinag-antay siya at 4pm na ito dumating.Hindi man lang

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It’s now offi cial. AT&T has an-nounced that the Nokia’s top-of-the line Windows 8 phone, Lumia 900 will be released on April 8. It will be priced at $99 for a 2-year contract.

It is very attractive considering that the cost of the iPhone 4S, Apple’s top-of-the line is $199 while the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google’s top-of-the-line Android phone is $299. Both also require a 2-year contract.

I have a Blackberry, a couple of iPhones (2nd and 3rd Gs), and an Android phone. The fi rst three were hand-me-downs from my kids,-Tanya, Traci, and Raul respectively. The fourth is attached to a family voice plan contracted with T-Mobile by my wife, Tina.

I use all of them to test the electron-ic libraries that I create after convert-ing regular digital fi les into eBooks using the formats of the different devices. They are mostly available for the Kindle device and Kindle readers for Android, iPhone and Windows phone. Kindle is the predecessor of eBookMan, which we were licensed to manufacture in the Philippines.

I also have a Nokia N95 using the Symbian OS that I have had for years. It has been the most expensive invest-ment I have ever made on a phone. It was also Nokia’s top-of-the-line at the time I bought it. I used it as a phone, a video and still camera, music and video player, and most importantly, as a storage for my electronic libraries like the others. Its memory is expand-able through its micro SD slot.

As I mentioned in a previous article, one can store 1,000 pages of eBook-converted documents in one megabyte (MB) of memory. This means, you can have 1,000, 000 pages in one gigabyte (GB) in any of the devices I mentioned above.

That’s why even if they are old and used; they are still valuable to me because I enjoy using them as “librar-ies in your pocket” and “knowledge at your fi ngertips”.

I fi rst heard of Nokia Lumia 900 Windows 8 phone at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 held in Las Vegas, Nevada last January 2012.

At CES 2012, Nokia Lumia 900 took top honors. It received the CNET Best of CES 2012 award; PC Mag gave it the “Best of CES Smartphone Award”; TechnoBuffalo named it the “Reader’s Choice Award”; Popular Science also gave it the “Best of CES 2012 Award”; LAPTOP Magazine proclaimed it as the Best Smartphone of CES 2012 Winner; eWEEK named it Editor’s Pick Awardee; and so did Popular Mechanics, Computer Shop-per, ZD Net and Wired Gadget Lab.

I decided to visit both the Windows/Microsoft Store and an AT&T outlet yesterday hoping to have a hands-on look at the device. The former still did not have it but luckily, the latter had it.

At a glance, the device has a display

size of 4.3 inches, bigger than any of the smartphones in the market. The weight is 5.6 ounces; height is 5.03 inches; width – 2.7 inches; thickness - .45 inches; 7 hours maximum 3G-talk time; 300 hours maximum 3G standby time; 60 hours maximum music play-back time and 6.5 hours maximum video playback time.

Cameras include Carl Zeiss optics, 8 megapixels for the main camera, dual LED fl ash, Auto Focus, 1 megapixel for the front camera, video calling.

It is supposed to be built for speed and the Internet. It has a 1.4 GHz processor; 4G LTE; Bing; Internet Explorer 9; HTML5; and WiFi.

As of now there are about 75,000 applications available for Windows phones. Windows 8 OS in smart-phones is new but if it catches fi re, it should not take long for it to catch up with the iPhone’s 500,000 apps and the 250,000 apps for the Android. This is especially true because Nokia is investing millions of dollars in an APP Campus that gives incentives to developers to create new apps.

I have about 400 apps in my iPAD 2. The most number of apps ever downloaded is 1500 by a Geek and Mac lover who was at the MAC-WORLD show that I also attended.

You do not really need to have that many apps to be productive, useful and entertained. In fact, I downloaded many of the apps just to try them out. I seldom use many of them. I have a few favorites that I use daily and often.

The Nokia Lumia 900 would have all the popular Windows applications for the enterprise and individuals. They fall under business solutions, personal information management, gaming and entertainment, commu-nications, productivity and utility, sharing and Internet, navigation, photography, music and audio, video and many others.

It would surely be a good eLibrary of selected electronic fi les that include documents, photos, graphic arts, mu-sic and audio fi les, videos and movies and other multi-media contents.

It would be a retrievable, search-able, bookmarkable, and annotatable “library in your pocket” and “knowl-edge at your fi nger tips”.

For only $99, why not?

NOKIA LUMIA 900: Windows 8 Phone

TRENDSSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NEWSNotes on Ray Kurzweil’s SXSW keynote:

“Expanding our intelligence without limit.”Source: William Hertling’s Thought-

streamThe hippie movement morphed into sili-

con valley movement. What we have today is the democratization of technology.

You don’t need millions of dollars — you can start world-changing revolutions with what you have (11 year old girl starts blog, now at 14 is on the cover of vogue with her own fashion line).

A boy in Africa today has access to more information than a U.S. President 15 years ago.

“Hardware increases exponentially, but software is stuck in the mud” is an errone-ous comment by some critics.

Watson is very impressive because it’s able to handle the vagaries of the human language.

Made a prediction that computers would beat humans in chess by 1998, and that immediately afterwards we would dismiss chess as a non-signifi cant program.

Watson is dealing with human languages. It master human language by reading 200 million pages of English content.

It can call up any fact in less than 3 seconds.

Some may say that it doesn’t understand it: because it is just statistical extraction of data.

But this is exactly how the human brain works.

Watson is not operating at human levels of intelligence yet.

It combines the capability that it does have with natural language, and combine that with what computers are good at: hav-ing total recall of all information.

Computers are shrinking at an exponen-tial rate: a 1000x decrease in size and 1000x increase in performance since Kurzweil was an undergrad.

Moore’s Law is only one example.If you measure the basic fundamental

aspects of technology, they are very smooth curves over time. Paradigms shift: from vacuum tubes to IC.

But overall, the curves are very smooth.It’s not just computers.It’s also smartphones.

And the bits we move around on wireless networks.A very important area is biology. It wasn’t an information technology problem until recently.

DNA Sequencing cost: dropping expo-nentially.Growth in Genbank DNA Sequence Data: increasing exponentially.Our genes are 23,000 software programs running in our bodies.

Health is now a software technology problem. Therefore, it will now be subject to exponential increases.

The world of physical things becoming information technology.

3D printing: “print me a Stradivarius.”Someone printed an airplane and fl ew in it.At Singularity University, we want to print out low-cost housing.The spatial resolution and precision of brain scanning is doubling.

The precision of brain simulation is doubling.

Is this good or bad?Plot of incoming and life expectancy

around the world.increasing for everyone. divide is still there, but the lowest countries also increased the most.Plot of education over time.Lev Grossman Interview

What do you think of Siri? What does it

mean for the landscape of AI?It’s great. People who complain remind

me of the joke about the woman who has a chess playing dog, but complains that it has a lousy endgame.It will keep getting better.Turing test: Is it still the benchmark for recognizing self-awareness? To say that it is sentient is just bizarre. What will it take for people to recognize it as sentient?

Of all the different proposals, it still has the most credibility.But it’s not perfect.We look like we’re heading for a date of 2029.As soon as we pass it, we’ll probably reject it as a valid test.People will accept an entity as conscious and as a person when it seems that way: when they convince us that they have the complexity and subtly to be our equals.Where is the serious progress going to come from? Is it from Siri? Watson? Some-where else?

It’s going to come where there is com-mercial value.Watson is understanding sequences of words.It would be of tremendous value for search engines to be able to do this.In the future, search engines won’t wait to be asked, they’ll be listening in, and they will pop up information we need.We’ll get used to having this information pop up in some sort of augmented reality.Are they going to judge us for our search terms?

Making judgements is the top level of our neocortex. It’s not built in, it’s built up over time, based on what we think. We need a whole framework to make judgements.These systems will make these judgements: what does Lev Grossman want vs. what someone else wants.How much confi dence do we have that if greater than human intelligence arises, it will want to be helpful?

Promise vs. peril has been an issue with technology since we had fi re: it can cook food, but it can burn down our villages.Biotechnology has great promise and great danger: it could be used by terrorists, and it can be used to arrest cancer.Genetics Nanotechnology Robotics (GNR): promise vs. peril is a very large issue. It’s not as much an us vs. them, but an us vs. us. We have confl icts today between groups of humans. They will add GNR into the tools they use for that confl ict.We are a human machine civilization. It’s going to be all mixed up: we are all enhanced with computer technology.We do have confl icts between humans. GNR technology can make these confl icts more harmful.Should governments be more active in regulating?

Confl icts come from governments. So they should not regulate.We (SXSW people) should be the ones to regulate it.Look at the major political power of Wiki-pedia: it killed SOPA in hours.When we talk about intelligence expanding, with technology, does it change us quan-titatively or qualitatively? Does it change human nature?

Mammals evolved and have a neocortex. It was the fi rst time we had an hierarchy of information.Then we had a mass extinction event.Given the radical sudden change in the en-vironment. the mammals survived because they adapted.Evolution recognized this, and used it more.Now we have a front cortex.If you take a congenitally blind person, the regions of the neocortex used for visual end

up getting used for more advanced capabil-ity of language analysis.We have about 300 million pattern recog-nizers in the neocortex.If we extend it, and are able to have even more complex thoughts.Backing up the consciousness in the cloud.My experience of the reality around me and the people around me feels diminished when I am buried in my smartphone during this conference. Is this a zero-sum game?

There was a big controversy that kids weren’t going to learn arithmetic when calculators were invented.And in fact, they don’t.We’ve outsourced some of our ability to technology.It frees up our energy to be able to do other creative things: like the people at the conference.We are free to choose how we spend out time and how we organize it.You are communicating with other people, either directly or indirectly.It has expanded our minds.We have a 19th century model of education.We should teach our kids how to solve problemsIn Paul Allen’s essay: published a few months ago, “The singularity is not here,” he said the law of exponential growth is not a physical law. It’s just an observation until it no longer works. What if we hit a wall?

Moore’s law will come to an end: but that’s just the fi fth paradigm. Before we had transistors, before that we had vacuum tubes, before that we had mechanical computers.Paul is confusing the end of one paradigm with the end of all growth. We’ll go on to another paradigm.Have you been wrong with your predic-tions?

In terms of the underlying capabilities: everything has stayed right on the curves.In terms of social predictions: those are harder. I rate myself as 86% correct on my social predictions… Like having self-driving cars.According to a research presentation at the Singularity Summit large year: the com-plexity of even a single cell is immense, and it will be impossible to simulate it all.

There is massive redundancy. When we look at how much information is encoded in the genome, you realize that the connec-tions are redundant.In the cerebullum you have connections wired together 10 million times. Massive levels of redundancy.You could say a forest is incredibly com-plex, but there is fractal redundancy.How confi dent do you feel that the kinds of marvelous benefi ts that are coming will be available to the 99%?

You have to take a lot of comfort from where we are today.Twenty years ago, if you took our a mobile phone, that was a sign that you were an elite. They were big and heavy and limited functionality.Now they can do so much more, and are small, and they are in everyone’s hands.Every fi eld is being empowered by increas-ingly inexpensive and increasingly power-ful tools: music, health, etc.They will make their ways into our bodies

and brains, but that’s an arbitrary distinc-tion.I don’t see a tremendous power being given to an elite.Say you’re graduating from college right now. What would you want to do to get yourself ready for the decades to come?

All of our education needs to encom-pass doing as a centerpiece of the cur-riculum.

If I was a student, I would be at an insti-tution where that was how it was done.Driven by Smartphones and Tablets, the

Market for Mobile Processors Is Projected to Reach 1.9 Billion Units Annually by 2016, Says NPD In-Stat

Scottsdale, Ariz., March 28, 2012—The term “mobile processor” refers to a range of processors used in mobile CE devices, often referred to as applications proces-sors and central processing units (å, and/or productivity capabilities. Mobile devices include e-readers, handheld game consoles (HGCs), mobile PCs, portable media play-ers (PMPs), smartphones, and tablets. New NPD In-Stat (www.in-stat.com) research, reports that the growth of mobile processors in 2011 exceeded 43% and is forecast to grow at a 22% CAGR through 2016.

“Although the total available market for mobile processors continues to grow, the emergence of industry leaders in the high-growth mobile device segment is becoming a key factor in the success of processor vendors,” says Jim McGregor, Chief Tech-nology Strategist. “Just having a captive smartphone and tablet market has propelled Apple into second place for the entire mo-bile processor market just behind industry leader Intel. In 2012, Apple will likely capture the top spot, in terms of unit ship-ments, driven by the success of its iPhone and iPad. Other companies that benefi tted greatly from new product releases or domi-nance by their OEM customers included Nvidia, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and Samsung.”

Key research fi ndings include:For all mobile devices, ARM is the domi-

nant processor architecture with over 73% of all units shipped and is growing.Intel’s dominance continues in mobile PCs, while Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung claim the top spots in other CE devices.Smartphones and tablets represent the greatest opportunity for growth with a combined 75% growth in 2011 and 29.3% CAGR expected through 2016.In-Stat anticipates consolidation in the mobile processor market beginning in the 2013/2014 timeframe.The release of Windows 8 later this year will be a pivotal point in the competi-tion between the ARM and x86 processor architectures.Quarterly shipment forecast by processor architecture, including ARM, MIPS, and x86Analysis of key issues potentially impacting the market, including the battle between ARM and x86, the pending release of Windows 8, the make vs. buy decision, dif-ferentiation and integration, the growth of the low-cost segments, industry consolida-

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There are now more than 3,000 ingredients on the FDA’s list of safe food additives—and any of these preservatives, artifi cial sweeteners and colorings and fl avor enhancers could end up on your plate. Do you really know what these chemicals will do to your waistline or health? Of course not. Here’s a rule of thumb: If a 7-year-old can’t pronounce it, you don’t want to eat it.

Snack on popcorn.In a 2009 study, people who ate 1

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ni Audele Batikang manananggol kabisado ang batasAng tingin sa sarili ay pagkataas-taasKapag nahinuha n’yang kaya kang iwasiwasH’wag makipagtalo, mabuti pa ang umiwas. Rapido ang bunganga ‘pag nakapagsimulaHindi masasawata, wala kang magagawaKung ang itinatalak, labis kang nasusuyaTakpan mo na lamang ang tainga magkabila. Ego niya’y nasaling doon sa Impeachment CourtIsa sa prosecutor gayon ang ikinilosLabis na ikinagalit s’ya raw ay binastosPinaratangan n’yang gago, anaki’y busabos. Nasaksihan ng madla doon sa Impeachment TrialAng mga taga-usig kung pa’no pagsabihanMatinding panlalait, palagay niya’y mangmangAng mga kaharap na pawang kagalang-galang. Di kasi n’ya talastas na siya’y lumalabisBawa’t salitang bitiwan ay nakasasakitKung ang paggalang ng kapwa ang hanap at naisBaguhin ang gawi’t iwasto ang pag-iisip. Arogante siya… ang palagay ng maramiIsang bakol ang mukha at nakakukunsumiKung magtalumpati’y laging nanggagalaitiLahat ng ipahayag sa kanya ay mabuti. May anting sa gigil hindi mo maibabadlingKat’wiran niya’y laging tama’t napakagalingAt sa pagtatalo lalabas kang sinungalingKapag hindi ka handa sa ano mang usapin. Eng-eng ang taglay niya pahayag noong iba‘Di dapat patulan matigil lang ang giyeraKung ikaw ay isang may maikling pasensiyaMagpakahinahon, pang-unawa’y habaan pa. ‘Yan ang katangian nitong tampok na nilalangKung susuriin mo’y tila walang kasalananKaya linta sa puwesto at kapangyarihanNagagamit ang posisyon sa pagpapayaman. Juez siya ngayon ng bantog na Criminal CourtDapat na ipagmalaki sa pagkakaluklokNguni’t kung s’ya dito’y magkakalat, maglalahokBrenda Meyj ay isang sakit na nakatatakot. Ika-15 ng Marso, 2012

January tourists (Continued from page 1)

Ako’y Nangangamba Sa ‘ting paguusap, naging tahimik ka,Na tila matamlay at wala ring sigla.Nagiisip ako, mandi’y nangangamba,Kung may dahilan ngang ako ay magtaka.

Nangangamba ako sa aking pagalis?Na di mo matanggap, araw ay kay bilis.Iyan ang totoo, ako ay babalik,Sa hiram na bansa upang manahimik.

Kahit nadarama, bigat na dadalhin,Na labis na kita’y natutong mahalin.‘Tagal na naghintay na ako’y tugunin,Kung may pagasa ngang ika’y maging akin.

Wala kang tinugon saking pagtatanong,Patuloy nasayang ang mga panahon.Ngayo’y napagisip, dapat magpatuloy,Kung bigo man ako, may pagasa doon.

Oo, may pangamba, ito ang totoo,Kung kamalian man itong gagawin ko.Kung lilisanin ka, papaano ba ‘to?Kung mapagalamang mahal mo rin ako.

Paano papawiin ang mga pangamba,Na syang bumabalot sa ating dalawa?Nais kong ulitin, minamahal kita,Tugunin mo ako, bago mahuli pa.

Bago ‘ko umalis, kita’y magkikita,Aalaming lahat kung liligaya ka.Matiis mo kayang ako’y mawala na,Tuluyang mawaglit sa ‘yong mga mata.

Nadarama ko na ang hapdi at kirotNa syang titiising hindi malilimot.Tanging nais ko lang ay tunay mong sagot,Kung ako’y mahal mo, diringgin ka irog.

Tulang katha ni:Romeo NicolasBocaue, Bulacan1/13/2012

Billy Hallowell, The Blaze | wwww.theblaze.com, 3/27/2012 -- Chris-tian broadcaster Pat Robertson isn’t afraid to make his often-controversial feelings about both political and social issues known. On Monday, Robert-son’s show, “The 700 Club,“ aired a segment about ”Shawn,” a man who had extramarital affairs with men. During the broadcast, the media personality said he thinks Shawn’s struggle with homosexuality “is somehow related to demonic posses-sion.”

Here’s how Right Wing Watch sums up Robert-son’s coverage of the story:

Today the 700 Club featured a segment on a man who tried to “change” his sexu-

ality by marrying a woman, but later ended up having extramarital affairs with men. The couple reconciled after his “repentance and deliverance from the homosexual lifestyle” and decided to stay together…

“The world today says ‘Okay, Shawn, so you are gay, you want to have affairs with men — that’s

cool. You have an absolute right to do that, why not?’,” Robertson said. “That’s not the right attitude. The attitude is that this is sin. It’s wrong. And [this man] realized it was wrong but couldn’t control it.”

The religious leader went on to take aim at Shawn’s behaviors.

“But that type of conduct is wrong

and it’s time in society we say certain things are wrong. However you look at it … he is obsessed. He has a compulsion,” Robertson continued. “I would think it is somehow related to demonic posses-sion.” -- View on YouTube: http://youtube/6iTBHwG1bAo


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“By the way,” Sonny said, stab-bing his Pusoy cards in between other cards to figure out his best lay. “I have read your recent article in the Ventura Times on the NPAs. Good piece.”

“Thank you,” I said, figuring out, too, the cards on my hand.

Sonny used to be an activist during his college days. Finishing his engi-neering and his petition approved by the immigration office, he snatched the opportunity to immigrate to the United States. I expected him to be still sympathetic to the movement although now very much detached from it.

“But don’t you think that land reform is just another way of saying that the farmers would be, legally, squatting on the farmlands of the owners?” Ernest said, laying down his cards, facedown on the table. “I mean, they would still need their landlords, right?”

I bit my tongue. Ernest’s dad had just died and I did not want to ag-gravate his grieving by engaging him in an argument. Besides, he grew up in America and, to me, would have a hard time understanding how a peas-ant could feel. A bit of an answer, ab-sent of a long explanation could also merely trigger the argument. Besides, even if he understood, even just in theory, would he care? “You seem to have very strong cards,” I said.

“You think, those NPAs could really topple the Philippine government?” said Kuya Romy, also laying down his Pusoy cards.

Not finishing high-school in the Philippines, Kuya Romy had a trail of lay-offs from a train of jobs. He dabbled a bit on being an electri-cian, a carpenter, a mason, plumber,

and even a laundryman – all con-tributing to his being an honorable breadwinner for his family of four. Under the wings of my father-in-law’s petition for my eldest sister-in-law, Kuya Romy now has a steady job assembling micro-chips here in America. He could understand the theories of the revolution. Our Pusoy time, however, would not be enough nor would be appropriate to spill all that. Besides, he now has a relatively comfortable life in America. “I’ll let the future answer your question, Kuya,” I said, laying down my hand.

The future of the revolutionaries in the Philippines is in their hands. It will depend on how they play their cards. In the shuffle of their lives, they got dealt the theories of strug-gles, the lessons of the past. They have the terrain, their sufferings. They got the future interspersed in their deck of life. With their hearts, no mat-ter how long it might take, they would eventually stab out the royal flushes, if not for them, for their generations to come.

When we showed our hands, I won over Sonny and Ernest and they shoved me a dollar each. Sonny won over Ernest. We had to pay Kuya Romy three dollars each. He won over everyone.

Epilogue

Grandpa Jovencio, as everyone of the Samson clan endearingly address-es my father-in-law, sat at the center of the sofa facing the 60” Sony T.V. at my home. With Grandma Caridad, around them were my sons, in-laws, grandchildren and other members of his clan.

Grandpa Jovencio had the choicest spot in the living room.

Grandpa did not only deserve the choicest spot because of his now being feeble. Most of those around him are in the United States, savor-ing the benefits of being in the United States, because he joined the US navy in the 1920s. His nine children who have borne him around twenty-five grandchildren, twenty-five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, are, mostly, now squeezed in the living room.

Our children or who we call second generation Americans and their children may not appreciate that much their relatively comfortable life here in the United States but have an idea of the harshness of life in the Philip-pines. Most have been on vacation to the Islands and have observed the miserable situation of those left - other clan members who are still wal-lowing in poverty in the Islands.

Meanwhile, however, we cannot do anything about them and we must just go on with our comfortable lives.

I had ordered for the HBO channel and we were all geared up to watch the Manny Pacquaio versus Ricky Hatton boxing bout.

When the national anthem of the Philippines was sang, most of us felt the loneliness of being away from the Islands but this feeling was easily supplanted by the anticipation of the oncoming fight.

When Pacquaio floored the English the first and second time during the first round, the whole living room rocked with cheers. Even Grandpa Jovencio joined in the high-fives with his wriggly palm.

When Pacquaio finally landed the left hook on Hatton’s jaw at the near end of the second round and the Eng-lish smashed on the canvass almost breathless, we joined millions of Filipinos around the globe in rejoicing another brilliant win for the legendary Filipino.

Together with these millions, we, momentarily, forgot the poverty stricken condition of the motherland.

It is said that everytime Pacquiao, the renowned singing boxer who holds seven boxing weight crowns, has a fight, crime in the Philippines is down to zero. Most are pegged at TV sets put up in malls and public arenas in the Philippines sponsored by entre-preneurs or politicians. Filipino TV subscribers all over world also crowd in their living rooms to watch.

Everytime Pacquiao wins, his credo

of Laban ko, Laban mo - my fight is your fight - is imagined by most Filipinos as also their win.

Pacquaio became the hero of the masses. He became a collective win-ner, a personification of what they want to be but cannot be. He grew up poor, sleeping on cardboards, selling newspapers, and the like. Realizing he had the talent, he boxed so he could eat. Now every bout gains him no less than $20M. He has been tallied as sixth richest athlete by Fortune Maga-zine aligned with the likes of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.

In his every bout and win, however, the Filipinos forget their poor situ-ation momentarily and rejoice with Pacquaio. It is as if they gain part of the millions he wins. Although he per-sonifies greatness through hard work and talent, how many of the millions of Filipinos have any similar talents that no matter how hard they would work, they would not gain what Pac-quiao has gained? For every Pacquaio who rises from poverty and who is bannered to distract the Filipinos from the root causes of their misery, there are millions of Filipinos who stagger to subsist everyday.

Of course, my father-in-law is one among the exceptions. He had also brought his brood out of the poverty and misery in the Philippines. And his clan is growing in the United States, savoring the blessings of a county, with the tale end generations not even having an iota of concern from where they came from.

Jovencio Samson got up from the choicest sitting spot in the living room. Speaking to no one in particu-lar, he said “okay, who will drive me and mommy to the casino now?”

Meanwhile, somewhere in a nook

in the Philippines, a peasant, with no money for education, is being talked to by a soldier of the New People’s Army, explaining that the only way for his salvation and his generations to come is through the revolution.

-End-

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PusoyHERO

Poem No. 8

I thought I was a hero.That was a mistake.I recall somebody saying,"Don't be a hero. Heroes are so sad!"l bleed baby! I bleed f or you!I just wanted help to forgive you.To understand the design why yo u bought me such pain.To ease down my mind and to be able to say every things okay.But it is not happening that way.Instead, I am greeted by your wall of silence.It is a beautiful day babe. Every things bright and magnified.So is my conf usion and emptiness. I heard from some one that,"The ultimate act of forgiveness is the scent ofa crushed violetLeft at your heels. " I wish to forgive. But how can I, if it is noteven asked, like saying to a wall, I forgive you and feel okay!And I wish to forget. But it's not that easy. This goes through myhead every day.But life goes on. Time heals. By your design I have faded awayfrom you, but the hurt you brought is like a sore wound that neverheals.I will always carry this with me forever and ever.And I am not going to be a hero anymore, nor any one’s angel asyou have called me.Today a hero died.Long live the HERO!

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Also many are coming to me, so I ask the Lord:”My Lord , my

God! So many are coming to me and entrust their problems to me, what shall I do?” and Jesus answered: “Just let them pray the chaplet unceasingly and they will be guided.”

That is why now, in the Philip-pines, the chaplet is very popular, not only among the Catholics but also the other Church denominations because there are so many miracles that have been attributed to the chaplet.

For example: my spiritual direc-tor, Monignor Chris Garcia, he had a light stroke . So he was admitted at the hospital, and the doctor said that he had a brain tumor and that there is a virus in his brain and that he cannot open his eyes because it is too painful. We went to the hospital and we prayed the chaplet together with Msgr. Cris Garcia, several min-utes later Msgr. Cris stood up and we have a conversation and several minute later, he asked for his lap top computer. So you see the power of the chaplet.

The following day, we prayed again the chaplet together with Msgr. Cris Garcia and after praying the chaplet, the doctor re-examined him and found him negative of everything. So on the third day he checked out of the hospital as if nothing had happened. You see the power of the chaplet?

Also one of our Divine Mercy leaders in Katipunan Dipolog in the Philippine his wife was ill early in

the morning. So they brought his wife to the hospital. The doctors gave him a prescription pad to buy the medicine and because at that time he has no money, so he has to sell his pig. And the buyer paid him for the pig , but the buyer said that he would get the pig the following day . But that afternoon that very day, the pig refused to stand up and refused to eat. So, he was so wor-ried, because if something happen to the pig, they will be in trouble because, they already consumed the money to buy medicine. So he called all his children and explained to them everything; that they have to pray the chaplet for the pig. So they prayed the chaplet. But at the middle of praying the chaplet the children were laughing. They were all laughing because they said it is better to pray the chaplet to a person but not for a pig. He explained it again to them. He explained it again and again. And on the third time that they prayed the chaplet, the children prayed intensely. After they fi nished praying the chaplet, the pig suddenly stood up and one of the children ran and get some food for the pig and the pig consumed everything. And the lesson is , if Jesus answered our prayers for a pig. how much more if we pray the chaplet for a human being .

We have another leader of the Divine Mercy in the Philippines. He

has several acres of rice fi elds and because he is poor he cannot afford to buy fertilizer. he cannot afford to buy insecticides. So. what he did ev-ery morning. he would roam around his rice fi eld and pray the chaplet of Divine Mercy. Everyday! Every morning! And also every afternoon. During the harvest time his neigh-bors were all surprised, because dur-ing harvest time his harvest is much more than those using fertilizer and insecticide. So you see the miracle of the chaplet!

Also I asked the Lord , “what are

the sins that You cannot forgive?” Jesus said: “All sins can be forgiven except if you refuse to believe that your sin can still be forgiven.” Because Jesus said by refusing His mercy you are also refusing to believe that He is a God. That is why Jesus said : “Before I come as a Just Judge I will open wide the door of MY MERCY.” But Jesus continued that “He who refuses to pass through the doors of My Mercy will have to pass through the doors of My Justice.”

Now, after a long while that Jesus is opening this door of mercy and

after a long while He will close that door of mercy and if He will close the door of mercy then He will open the door of His Justice. And if He will open the door of His Justice then who can enter Heaven? When Heaven is only for the pure when Heaven is only for the clean. And who are the clean? And who are the pure? All of us are sinners. All of us are unclean . We can only enter Heaven through His mercy. through His love . Without God’s mercy, without God’s love, it is too diffi cult to enter Heaven. That is why Jesus now is begging us to go out and pro-claim His Mercy and that His Mercy is unfathomable but Jesus also said: “Proclaiming My Mercy is not enough, you have to put mercy into action , and how? By living as an example of My mercy.” And I will close these testimony with another phrase from Jesus when He said to me: “He who save a soul saves his own.”

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We will have a question and answer. I am not allowed by the Church to pray over. to do healing or lay hands to anybody because Cardinal Vidal said I should just do my evangelization . because he said . “there are some who are given the gift of healing. they will continue

their healing:’ But then it cannot be avoided that during my talk so man) sick people are attending . so Cardinal Vidal arranged a venera-tion to the image of Divine Mercy . so the sick people and those who have problem will ask directly to Jesus for their healing; not through me because I am only a human be-ing. After that , this image become a miraculous image. because there are so many instant healing and also sometimes when I give testimony , people see lights. Lights coming out from His body. That is why there are sore ripples in His body (of the image). The light has a heat and the heat destroyed the plastic . Because so many people will say Jesus is emanating light s and sometimes they say that Jesus get out from the frame. And they said everytime Jesus gets out from the frame , the frame is empty . And it didn’t only happen in the Philippines. It also happened in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Japan , in New York , New Jersey , Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, Chicago, North Dakota, Texas , Alabama, Georgia all over the States and in Canada, Mexico and Brazil. It also happened in Europe especially Ireland, Eng-land , France, Czechoslovakia, Swit-zerland , Germany, Poland, Italy and at the Vatican because I have also said my testimony in Vatican in front of some cardinals and archbishops all over the world and they saw Jesus get off from the frame mean-ing during the veneration (showing respect and appreciation) Jesus is really present. So during the venera-tion talk to Him and ask Him any-thing you want because what you are asking for i not against His will, He will give it to you because nothing is impossible with the Lord, nothing is impossible with the Lord. And then after Jesus you have to pass through Mama Mary because Mama Mary said I am the Mother of Mercy. And that without Mama Mary there is no Jesus. That’s why wherever the Son i there is the Mother. wherever the Mother, there is the Son.

* Note: this series of testimony is dated within the period of mid 2009.

(to be continued)

Editor’s Note: This series of articles is made possible with the

permission of Bro. Stanley C. Vil-lavicencio. To fi nd out more about the booklet or to schedule a talk by Bro. Stanley in your parish, please contact Sis. Zarina Cruz at [email protected].

Stanley Villavicencio: His Personal Encounter with Jesus Christ of the Divine Mercy

3rd in a series from the booklet of the same name

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THE METAMORPHOSISBy Ernie D. Delfi n

In a person’s lifetime, there will be a few major events that will cause some signifi cant life-style adjust-ments or profound metaphysical changes in his life. Those events are often planned or patiently worked for its fulfi llment, such as one’s college graduation, wed-ding or even a divorce. Some occurrences, however, like a major accident or illness, come along like a thief in the night and the person must deal with it as best as he can. March 7, 2012 was one of those days that I will never forget as I underwent a Da Vinci Robotic Lap-aroscopic surgery where I was put to sleep for over three hours at the Torrance Memorial Hospital. That hospital stay was just the second time I ever slept in a hospital bed; the fi rst time was in a Dagupan City (Philippines) hospital due to seri-ous car accident 35 years ago. This surgery hopefully has prolonged my life but also changed it dramatically altered my life-style, including my diet!

After I was asked to sign a docu-ment giving the doctors full author-

ity to do anything to save my life in the event of any unexpected occur-rences that may happen during the surgery, I felt completely vulnera-ble and have accepted my own mor-tality. And yes, the feeling of com-plete surrender to my God was all I could do in silent prayer, to achieve some degree of peace and tranquility within myself. With the wonders of science and technology, I really did not know nor feel anything from the time I was given a laxative drug prior to the anesthesia injection in the surgery room. When I woke up, several hours later, I was already in the recovery room, and noticed for the fi rst time those intravenous tubes and computer screens beside my bed that were obviously monitoring my vital signs to the nurse’s station. With a grateful heart, I thanked God that the surgery was successful and that I was alive!

Due to the wonders of modern medicine and technology, I was discharged the following day, which started my forced vacation at home for several weeks, but with a tube attached to my body for a week! Although with some degree of pains and discomfort, the mind and the spirit appeared to become sharper

and fortifi ed as if to compensate the weakening of the physical body. The three weeks since the surgery (so far) have given me a lot of hours thinking, pondering, reminiscing, reading and writing. It was a rare luxury of time, that I never had before in my six decades of earthly existence. It’s a grand vacation without much expense in the confi nes of my own home with very light physical activity in my farmyard during this unusually cold springtime. Surprisingly, I also felt happy and contented with my new-found life status as a semi-retired businessman with reduced commit-ments and the absence of my normal activities, as per doctor’s orders for about month or two.

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My forced vacation during this Holy Week had me contemplating what truly matters in my own life. This medical leave is causing my mind, spirit and body to live in har-mony, a much needed equilibrium in my life. A real metamorphosis is happening for me this Springtime, including my food intake. The doc-tor advised me to abstain from meat as it is the best food to attract the cancer cells to come back. Now, those inviting juicy advertisements for steak and lobsters or rich-in-cho-lesterol foods that are quite preva-lent in our society are gradually becoming unattractive for me. For about three weeks now, my palate’s craving for a medium rare prime rib steak with sautéed mushrooms and baked potatoes with gravy with red wine is almost gone!

If the doctor is right, getting rid of my prostate that was affl icted with aggressive cancer cells at that early stage has given me another l5-25 years of life will be a great bonus.

With God’s blessing and mercy, I have resolved to make each day, each week worth living for by doing something positive every day, not only for myself and family’s welfare but also for others. I hope that I can continue to make a difference to somebody and leave this world a better place for my children and their children.

What is truly important in one’s life? Nobody can answer that philosophical question for us, but when we are alone, divorced from the busyness and noise of the world, in the deep recesses of our soul, there lies a silent voice that whispers an honest answer that breathes life unto our spirit to become more vibrant and joyful. The past few weeks that I have been physically down, I felt quite blessed and fortunate that I am again in deep communion with my mind and spirit, that somehow were neglected and not been adequately nourished as they should have been in the past. The Lenten Season biblical stories have given me fresh perspec-tives and renewed my faith more profoundly this time. For instance, last Sunday’s gospel tells of a story how Christ was moved by so much compassion for Lazarus’ relatives’ mourning over the former’s death, that He brought Lazarus back to life. Likewise, I have that inexpli-cable belief that Christ also loves me that much despite my sinfulness that He is making me recover very well to live fully to do His will.

Next week, Christian churches will celebrate Christ’s passion that will lead to His death on the cross but He will come back to life during His Resurrection on the third day. Man’s sufferings, like my recent ailment, can never be compared to Christ’s suffering and sacrifi ce for our redemption. The timing of my surgery during Lent has given me priceless lessons and fortifi ed me in my own share of hu-man sufferings and struggles during my lifetime.

Now, I realize that being sick and forced into an unplanned vacation is a part and parcel of our human condition; imperfect as we human beings are, we probably need these warning signals to remind us of our mortality and to purify us from the many toxins that we accumulate in our topsy-turvy world. The interdependence of all human beings was made more profound this time of my life. The virtue of trust (to my doctors, nurses and all who minis-tered my needs) and the virtue of gratitude (to all who expressed love and concern, especially my family and friends, including those scien-tists and inventors of this expensive Da Vinci Robot and the powerful medicines) touched the core of my being profusely especially the times when I felt very down and vulnerable. As that popular song of yesteryears declares “People need people”. Yes, indeed, we are just

An Unplanned Medical Vacation This Lent Leads To A More Balanced Life And Diet

(This article is an update of my previous article in Asian Journal, San Diego, dated 3/23-29/2012, titled: It’s Only Money, as reported by Pete Guinto, Retired, US Navy. Erratum: Philippine guerilla money or notes unique collection was not acquired by Mr. Guinto from the Philippine treasury, in-stead from the U.S. treasury being a member of the American Numis-matist Assn.)

Cebu is a long, narrow province in the central Philippines between Negros and Bohol. It was at Cebu City that the seat of government for the Philippine Common-wealth was established after the fall of Manila to Japanese forces at the end of 1941. Here the govern-ment authorized emergency paper currency, mostly to meet expenses of sustaining its armed forces.

It was reported that sometime in August and September 1947, approximately 20 million pesos in Cebu notes were to be placed into circulation on the islands of Leyte, Samar, Bohol and Masbate, all then unoccupied by the Japanese. To carry out this objective two is-sues of notes were made. The fi rst was the Philippine National Bank

series of 1941, released in January or February of 1942; the second consisted of Treasury notes series dated 1942 which were released early in March.

1 Peso notes and some 10 Pesos notes of the fi rst issue have been found with stampings from lo-cal treasuries of Leyte Islan and Surigao on Mindanao Island. This is because during the early months of the war Cebu notes were used whenever there was a need and an available supply. Illustrations of Cebu notes with such stampings will be found elsewhere under Leyte Municipal Issues and Su-rigao Province.

It is also seen on other provin-cial issues that various notes of the fi rst and second Cebu emissions served as models for some of the emergency notes. This attempt at standardization proved fruit-less, however, as more notes were needed later and no further issues were forthcoming to Cebu.

In the same report it was noted, Major James Cushing, then in-charge of the Cebu resistance movement did not authorize the distribution or use of the guerilla notes to prevent exposure of Cebu population to imminent torture or worse when caught in the position of this money after the Japanese landed in Cebu. This is why no Cebu note issues were dated later than 1942.

Background words running continuously on both sides are EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD, except that in two places the word CURRENCY is omtted. This same background layout is used on all 1942 Cebu notes and the 4-note fi rst issue in Mindanao. Notes are dated SERIES OF 1942, titled TREASURY EMERGENCY CURRENCY CERTIFICATE. 10 and 20 have vignette of Quezon; 5 Pesos has no vignette.

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This Holy Week and every week for the rest of my life, as I continue to receive the countless gifts of life-giving love from others, I pray that I am also able to give the same to others. Then, and only then that my life is worth living for, in complete gratitude to HIM who gives us life.

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The Philippine Movie industry suf-fered another loss with the death of veteran actor and movie icon, Luis Gonzales shortly before midnight Thursday, March 15, 2012. Luis died of com-plications from pneumonia at the Makati Medical Center. Crema-tion was done on Friday, March 16, followed by a three-day wake at the Sanctuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park. Interment was Monday, March 19 at 2:00 p.m. I was told by Pempe Rodrigo that German Moreno and Marichu Vera Perez gave the eulogy.

Because of the death of Luis Gonza-les, many articles had been written about

him. I am joining the many movie stars and writers in the entertainment industry

in paying tribute to Luis Gonzales. Ito

ay isang Luksang Parangal para sa isang idolo ng bayan na nagbigay kaligayahan sa libo-lobing mamayan ng Pilipinas

dahil sa kanyang madulang pag-ganap sa pinilakang tabing.

Luis Gonzales (Luis Mercada in real life) was born in the old town in Pampanga that gave him his name, San Luis. He is also known as “Mr. Palengke” because his last name “Mer-cada” means market in Spanish. The late Sampaguita Studio executive, Dr. Jose Perez, calls him “Bolang,” meaning “happy go lucky guy.” My friend, Pempe Rodrigo (worked as secretary at the Sampaguita

Studio) described Luis as “mabait” and “mabuting makisama.” Although a Kapampangan by birth, he was raised in Tondo, Manila. Since 2009, I have been trying to get an audience to interview Luis. Unfortunately, my schedule did not permit me to see him. By the time I was ready to see Luis, I was told that he’s already very ill. His family would not allow me to interview him anymore. His family wanted his friends and movie fans to remember him as the good-looking, handsome guy. I had the same experience when I wanted to interview Paraluman and Armando Goyena. Both Paraluman and the Goyena families wanted to keep the two movie stars’ privacy. I did respect the request of the family. I was fortunate enough to write the articles about them through the eyes of their family and friends in the movie industry.

His Movie Career

Luis lived a colorful life in the big screen. He was introduced in the fi lm, “Pilya” in 1954 with Gloria Romero as the leading lady. After Pilya, the Sampaguita Studio groomed Luis as a romantic leading man for light drama and comedies. He played the roles as love interest of Rita Gomez and Lolita Rodriguez.

Before Luis Gonzales, Gloria Romero had already been paired with Ric Rodrigo but it was Gloria-Luis tandem that proved to be selling more to the movie fans. The Gloria-Luis team-up started in the movie “Despatsadora in 1955 that opened the gate to box-offi ce hits like “Artista,” Hootsy Kootsy” (1955), “Pagdating ng Takip Silim” (1956), “Vacationista” (1956), “Cole-giala” (1957), Paru-Parong Itim, Alalang Banal, Palaboy, Ikaw ang Aking Buhay” (1958), :Pitong Pagsisisi” (1959), “Lupa sa Lupa” (1960), “Apat na Yugto ng Buhay” (1961), and “Sinisinta Kita” (1963), “Tubog sa Ginto” and “Haydee” (1970) , ,Gloria and Luis made about 30

movies together.The Luis-Gloria team-up became one

of the most popular movie team-ups in the annals of the Philippine movies. Luis and Gloria were one of the famous

love teams that Sampaguita Pictures cre-ated. If you remember the love team of Guy and Pip, or Vilma and Bubot in the younger generation, it was Gloria and Luis or Nida Blanca and Nestor de Villa in the older generation that were lording the box offi ce. .

Luis was a versatile actor who did well in both dramas and comedy fi lms. He was in action movies like “Nardong Putik,” “Nino Valente,” “Kidlat ng May-

nila,” “Humanda ka Mayor,” “Bahala na ang Diyos,” Kamay ni Cain,” and “Iukit mo sa Bala.” His comedy fi lms would include “Just Married,” “Do Not

Disturb,” and “Anak ni Waray vs Anak ni Biday” And in drama movies he excelled in his performance in the fi lms like “And God Smiled at Me,” “Pahiram na Ligaya,” and “ Nasaan ang Puso.”

Luis appeared in more than 100 mov-ies. The highlight of his movie career was his portrayal of the life of the late President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos., a Nationalista Party candidate for Presi-dent of the Philippines in the propaganda movie, “Iginuhit ng Tadhana.” Gloria Romero portrayed the role of Imelda Marcos. It was this fi lm that helped candidate Ferdinand Marcos win the presidency. In 1969, Luis ang Gloria did another propaganda movie, “Pinag-buklod ng Langit” by United Brothers Productions. The fi lm won the Famas Best Picture of the year in 1989. The story revolves around the Palace life of the Marcoses with Gloria Romero por-traying again Mrs. Imelda Marcos.

His Love Life

Although I never had a chance to interview Luis Gonzales, there’s nothing about his love life that would describe him as a playboy. The only love in his life that I know is his marriage to an af-fl uent socialite Vina Concepcion. They have three children. Luis lived a quiet life with his family.

Last year, when I was trying to get a schedule to interview Luis, I was told that it was impossible to talk to him be-cause he’s very sick. He’s an alcoholic.

I knew he was not a drinker and Pempe Rodrigo would attest to this informa-tion. Most of those I talked about Luis as an alcoholic told me that Luis started drinking when his daughter, Melissa Mercado Martel, accused her husband , Robert Puyat Martel, of physical abuse

and attempted murder in 2004.

What they say about Luis.

Through my readings of the articles

Luis Gonzales, Luksang Parangal

written by Ricky Lo and Bayani San Diego of Philippine Star, I was able to learn about Luis work habits, feelings of his co-workers, and last days with his friends. They all remember Luis as a good and fun person.

Governor Vilma Santos shared a story

about the coined word “Bakya-crowd.” She remembers Luis going to the movie set in his “bakya.” The term “baky-acrowd” was coined by the late movie director, Lamberto Avellana. In an

interview, Vilma said, “He really made a big mark in Philippine movies. I will be praying for the repose of his soul and for

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more details) because I signed a confi dentiality agreement. It’s is being fi lmed right now and it’s going to air in September,” Camarines Sur Governor L-Ray Villafuerte told abs-cbnNEWS.com on Tuesday. He added that the shooting only started last week and will wrap up in August. Contestants perform a challenge for a European version of “Survivor” shot in Caramoan, Camarines Sur. Photo from the Facebook page of Caramoan Paradise According to speculations on the show’s fan sites, the American ver-sion of “Survivor” with host Jeff Probst is shooting two seasons in the Philip-pines -- Seasons 25 and 26 -- back to back. “Survivor” Season 24 is currently airing worldwide. The next season is expected to air in the fall. Tourism boost Villafuerte said the fi lming of “Survivor” will help local businesses in Caramoan. “They are hiring 400 people. They pay them daily wage, they are hiring sasakyan, bangka at lahat ng local supplies doon ay binibili nila so grabe ang business in the locality,” he said. Tourism establishments are also using “Survivor” to market their products. CK-Inn, in fact, mentioned the shoot on its website. “The whole Matukad island will be closed during March as produc-tion team of USA is now in Caramoan preparing for the Survivor show,” it announced on its website. Tour operator Caramoan Paradise even offers pack-ages that would give tourists a glimpse of the “Survivor” experience. “Survivor

USA is setting up now at Caramoan, shooting will start by March... get the chance to have a glimpse of it.... for only P1,300 2D1N (fl at rate)... experi-ence being a castaway,” it said on its Facebook page. Hollywood movie shoot This is not the fi rst time that Caramoan was chosen as shooting location for “Survivor.” Villafuerte said the French and Swedish versions of the reality TV show were also shot in Camarines Sur. “Survivors France, Sweden, Belgium, India, Turkey, Serbia, Israel have fi lmed there as early as four years ago,” he said. But since the American version of “Survivor” attracts a global audience, countries are eager to host the show. In Asia, the U.S. series has already shot in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia and China. Aside from “Survivor,” Villa-fuerte also revealed that a Hollywood movie will also be shot in the province. “Magkakaroon ng Hollywood fi lm sa amin this year, I can not say again (what it is),” he said.

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sea dispute. The EU said the meeting un-

derscores the very good bilateral relations between the Philippines and EU.

Both sides agreed to strengthen their ties further.

The EU is already a top investor in the Philippines and a major market for its exports.

They both agreed that there is a potential to expand the economic exchange further.

strength for his family, too.”Gloria Romero remembers Luis as a

jolly fellow. Gloria said that Luis was always joking around and he loved to dance.

When my friend Luz Valdez visited Luis at the Makati Medical Center two days before he died, Luz described Luis condition as nearly comatose. Those in the medical profession would tell you that the sense to lose before we die is the sense of hearing. The nurse in the room told Luz to talk to Luis and touch his hand to see if he was listening. When Luz would whisper to Luis, he would respond by pressing her hand. Luz told him to pray along with her and reminded him to follow the “light” and at the end he would be welcomed by Mama Mary. Luz told Luis, “ipagdasal mo rin ako, ha.” After Luz let go off Luis hand, she saw a tear fell from his left eye.

Another friend of mine, Liberty Ilagan, describes Luis Gonzales as “a wonderful person, full of life and wit. “There was never a dull moment with him. He will surely be missed,” said Liberty.

Boots Anson-Roa remembers how his late father, Oscar Moreno, fondly calls Luis as “Palengke” because he was a live wire. He always sparked animated conversation.

If Dr. Jose Perez is alive, he would say, “Bolang, we will miss you.” Doc Perez’ secretary, Pempe Rodrigo, describes Luis as “mabait” and “mabuting makisama.”

Norma Vales remembers Luis as a jolly fellow. Although Norma did not do a lot of fi lms with Luis, she remembers having pleasant memories working with him. It was Norma who called me to let me know that Luis passed away.

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

From Shakespeare’s quotes, Juliet said, “Sweet, so would I, Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing, Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

Indeed, parting is such sweet sorrow. There is no other best way to remember Luis than imagining Luis is now singing with angels and watching over us all. Luis will soon be meeting Tita Conching (Linda Estrella) who passed away last February, 2012. ll.”


Today’s LifestyleSometimes, a school lesson turns out to be

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County News Center | SAN DIEGO, 3/25/2012 -- That was the case in Thai-land’s devastating 2004 Tsunami. About 100 tourists were enjoying themselves on one Phuket beach when 10-year-old Tilly Smith, vacationing with her family from England, realized the receding water and frothing sea were the very signs of a tsunami she’d learned in school. Her warning prompted hotel staff to evacuate the beach—just in time.

This Tsunami Awareness Week, March 26-30, the San Diego County Offi ce of Emergency Services (OES) will help en-sure local children are just as prepared.

Classrooms across the region will tune into cable TV or use the Internet to view OES’s charming and Emmy award-winning animated short, Tsunamis: Know What to Do. You can watch it below.

“Kids really like this lesson, and Mr. King the crab is a great teacher,” said County OES Director Holly Crawford,

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A tsunami wave in San Diego County

It’s Elementary: Tsunami Lesson Set for Region’s Classroomscould either be caused by a strong, local earthquake or a quake hundreds of miles away. The shaking would tell us a local tsunami might follow; NOAA’s West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Cen-ter would provide alerts on a tsunami that originated further away.

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In the 20th century, the United States was the world leader in education—the fi rst country to achieve universal second-ary education and the fi rst to expand higher education beyond the elite class. Now other countries are catching up and leaping ahead—in high school gradu-ation rates, in the quality and equity of their K–12 education systems, and in the proportion of students graduating from college. It is not that American education has gotten worse so much that education in other parts of the world has gotten so much better, so fast.

Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing and increasingly borderless and innovation-based world, this comprehen-

A World-Class Education: Learning from Interna-tional Models of Excellence and Innovation

sive and illuminating book from interna-tional education expert Vivien Stewart is not about casting blame; it is about under-standing what the best school systems in the world are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools—at the national, state, and local level—might do differently and better. Here, you’ll consider

How the U.S. education system fares against emerging international standards of excellence.

The policies, practices, and priorities of the world’s best-performing systems, along with specifi c ideas for adapting these approaches for U.S. schools.

The common factors characteristic of high-performing and rapidly improving systems.

New models of 21st century teaching and leadership and ways to modernize cur-riculum, instruction, and assessment.

How technology and international exchange can help the United States close performance gaps and reach new levels of excellence and equity.

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Are we friends with ourselves? Do we love who we are? These are important questions because we can-not develop good friendships with others unless we have befriended ourselves.

How then do we befriend our-selves? We have to start by ac-knowledging the truth of ourselves. We are beautiful but also limited, rich but also poor, generous but also worried about our security. Yet beyond all that we are people with souls, sparks of the divine. To ac-knowledge the truth of ourselves is

to claim the sacredness of our being, without fully understanding it. Our deepest being escapes our own men-tal or emotional grasp. But when we trust that our souls are embraced by a loving God, we can befriend ourselves and reach out to others in loving relationships.

Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc.

Claiming the Sacredness of Our Being

Kuwento ni Alberto Segismundo Cruz

Balaghari, Abril 3, 1948

“Ang kabayanihan ay isang mataas na uri ng karangalan, na noong unang dako man ay siya ring lagi nang ipinambibihag ng mga Kaharian at ng mga puso ng mari-rilag na Prinsesa.”

Ilan pang daang taon bago naitirik ni Fernando de Magallanes ang Kurus sa maliit na pulo ng Homonhon, Sugbu, noong ika-19 ng Marso, 1521, ang Manilad ng Lusongay isa nang pook ng kababalaghan. Ang nagaganap at maaaring mangyari nang panahong iyon ay mahirap kundi man sadyang hindi mangyayari o magaganap sa kasalukuyan. Ang mga tao’y lubhang malapit ang loob kay Bathala, kaya’t ang kanilang buhay ay pangkaraniwan: hubad sa karangyaan at sadyang walang hilig sa pagmamakisig; sadyang hindi nakawawatas sa halaga ng ginto, sapagka’t ito’y hindi ginagamit na katulad ng pagkilala natin ngayon na may kaukulang halaga sa ating kabuhayan.

Ang Manilad na ito’y isang kaharian ng mga kayumanggi. Ang kapangyariha’y na kay Lakan-Ilog at kay Dayang-Dayang Lakambini, nguni’t ang kapangyari-hang ito’y hindi nadarama ng kanilang nasasakupan sa dahas, lakas o mabalasik na pasiya kundi sa mabuti’t kagiliw-giliw na pasunod ng kauri gaya ng turing ng magulang sa kanilang mga anak.

Sa pook na itong pinagpala ng Tadhana’t pinagyaman ng Kata-lagahan, ang kalalakihan, kung di man mangingisda’y maninisid ng perlas, at nangdarayo sila sa layuning ito hang-gang sa karagatan ng Timog at sa bughaw na Selebes. Ang kababaihan dito, kung di man manghahabi’y mga inang uliran ng tahanan, na ang buong maghapo’y iniuukol sa kanilang mga bunso at sa mga gawaing pantahanan. Ang mga tahanan nila’y yari sa murang kawayan at atip na kugon saka nangababakuran pa ng buho.

Pinakatanod wari ng baybaying Manilad ang nagtatayugang niyog na ang mga daho’y walang iniwan sa lungtiang ban-dila na kayumanggi ng mga mangingisda. Ang mga puno ng saging ay sagana, gaya rin naman ng pagkakalaganap ng lagw-erta, na ang bungang-kahoy na idinudulot ay isa nang biyayang tunay sa panig na ito ng daigdig. Dahil dito, ang kasaganaa’y laganap din, at pag nakapamulaga na ang Haring Luningning sa Silangana’y laganap na rin ang awa, samantalang sa dako ng tabang ng ilog ay madarampot ang malinamnam at manamis-namis na talabang kung magkaminsa pa’y kinatu-tuklasan ng mutya sa dibdib.

Sa malawak na pasigan ay napata-tangay sa agos ang mga isda’t hipon, bukod sa laging masaganang huli ng mga anak-dagat o mangingisda. Sa ilalim ng kaburaka’y mahuhukay ang mga lamang-dagat at kabibing malinamnam.

Sa lipunan ng kahariang ito’y masasa-bing pantay-pantay ang lahat. Walang itinuturing na makapangyarihan, maya-man o pantas, sapagka’t ang kabataa’y kumikilala sa katandaan at tumitingala sa katotohanang taglay sa katauhan ng matatanda ang kadakilaan ng kaluluwa at biyayang-buhay na malinis ni Bathala. Dahilan dito, pagkakapatira’y siyang sagisag ng sangkaharian; at sa pagkakap-atirang ito’y lalong mahigpit ang buklod ng pag-iisa; nakalaan silang magsalo sa ligaya’t maghati sa hilahil; lumuha sa ka-ligayahan at humalakhak sa kalungkutan; at magpakamatay sa pagtatanggol ng ng karangalan ng Tinubuan, mayroon o wala mang gantimpalang ito.

Sa kamusmusan pa lamang ng mga bata ng Maniladayinaatasan na silang magma-hal sa kanilang matatanda at gumalang sa kanilang mga magulang na itinuturing na kanilang mga bathala sa lupa. Sinasanay din naman sila sa mahirap na gawain, sa pangingisda o paninisid ng perlas at pinagiging dalubhasa sa pakikipaghamok sa mga pating at iba pang dambuhala ng karagatan. Gayon din naman, sa panahon ng kabataa’y sinasanay sila ng kanilang mga taga-pagmulat sa pamamaraang dalubhasa sa paggamit ng gulok, palaso, bukod pa sa pag-akyat sa matatayog na punong-kahoy at pag-indayog sa mga bag-ing ng kagubatan.

Ang kababaiha’y may kanila rin na-mang katangiang iniaatas ng matandang kaugalian at hinuhubog sa palihan ng magagandang kaisipang kaugnay ng sin-ing. May matatandang babaing guro sila sa paghahabi, at samantalang humahabi ang mga daliring kinandila sa mga habi-hang yari sa kawayan at sa maninipis na kahoy na kauri ng palotsina, ang kanilang mapupulang labi’y parang nangagbukang talulot ng klabel na gagalaw-galaw sa pag-awit, kundi man ng ayayiy ng lutukan na maaaring pinagbuhatan ng mga nota ng kumintango ng dalit.

Pagsikat na ng araw, ang Manilad ay napupukaw na rin. Nagbabangon ang matatanda, tungo sa kanilang gawain, matapos na makapag-agahan ng gatas ng kambing at ng dinurog na minatamisang mais kundi man ng isang pinakuluan sa tubig na may dahong kauri ng sa abokado nguni’t may bango ng sampoy.

Kaya’t nang magising naman nang umagang yaon si Malaya, ang bunsong-Dilag ng panahong pinagpala, ay lipos ng sigla ng kabataan at ng ligayang katugon ng kagandahan ng Katalagahang nakapaligid sa kanyang sanghaya. Sa pagkakatayo pa lamang niya sa unang baytang sa itaas ng hagdang kawayan ng kanilang marikit na palasyo ay nasanghap na niya ang pabango ng Amihang nag-papahatid mandin ng mahiwagang bulong ng mga bulaklak-gubat sa pamamagitan

ng halimuyak. Kung ano ang tugon ng kanyang puso’t ng kanyang kaluluwa sa gayong talinghaga ng nagsasalaysay na Amihan sa mga pangungusap na sadyang inililihim ay siyang mahirap na maturol o mahulaan. Inihakbang na pababa ang mga paa niyang kayumanggi — makikinis at may bahid pa ng rosas ang mga sakong, at sa paghakbang na ito’y lalong hinagkan ng sinag ng maluwalhating Umaga ang kanyang katawang anaki’y sadyang nilalik sa maharlikang damit-prinsibining yari sa lalong mapuputi’t malasutlang hibla ng abaka.

Gaya ng dating napagkagawian na, si Malaya’y naglulunoy sa Ilog-Tulawi sa tuwing umagang pantay-mata ang araw sa Silangan. Buhat sa binabaang hagdan hanggang sa liku-likong landas sa tiping damuhang napapalamutihan sa magk-abilang dako ng mga nilad, ay iniwan ng Prinsibining Kayumanggi ang kanyang mga yapak upang hagkan naman ng mga paru-parong sa sinag din ng araw ay nagsisipaglaro’t nagtitimpalak wari sa kagandahan ng kanilang kulay.

Sa ilang saglit pa’y naglulunoy na ang Prinsibining marilag sa tubig na anaki’y kristal. Wala siyang iniwan sa isang sire-nang sa kalinawan ng tubig ay sinasalamin ang sariling dilag, ang kanyang kasibulan at ang yamungmong ng kanyang ika-labing-anim na Tag-araw.

Sa bula ng gugong may pabango ng tibulid at kabuyaw ay lalong pinababango ang buhok niyang anaki’y sa mais; mamu-la-mula’t kulot nang bahagya, kaya’t kung gayong basa’y walang iniwan sa nakuyom na watawat ng kabataan. Sa isang makinis na batong busilak na waring hinirang niya sa pampangin ay lalo niyang pinakinis ang kanyang balat na manipis ding katulad ng hinubad niyang kasuutan. Saka, pagkata-pos, susuklayin niya ang basing buhok na minsang iwasiwas sa kanyang balikat at kung magkabihira nama’y inihahayang sa hangin upang medaling matuyo; saka siya aahon sa pasigang may bahagyang takip ng anahaw ang maselang na bahagi ng katawang kabigha-bighani, isusuot ang malasutla’t maputing damit ng ilang-ilang na may sangkap abaka, magpapabango ng katas ng ilang-ilang na may sangkap na dalisay na langis ng niyog, saka mag-iipit sa pagitan ng tirintas niyang buhok ng da-lawa o tatlong bukang nilad, at saw akas, ay isusuot sa makikinis niyang pang may rosas na mga sakong ang sandalyas na yari sa upak ng saha’t balat ng niyog, na ang pinaka-dahon ay kuwintas-kuwintas na abakang pinagsalit-salit nang buong ingat at hinusay, daliring kayumangging tagapaglingkod ng Bathala ng Dilag ng Manilad.

At nang maganap na ang kanyang kagayaka’y sinalamin niyang muli ang kanyang mukha’t katawan sa pampang ng ilog upang matiyak na hindi magbabago ang ibiniyayang kariktan sa kanya ng Katalagahan at ni Bathala. Datapuwa’t sa mga mata niya’y biglang nasisinag ang kalungkutan. Nadarama niya ang kanyang kalagayan - ang pagka-maharlika. Natiti-yak niya ang kanyang kaisahan sa gitna ng mapagbiyayang Katalagahan at kasa-ganaang dulot ng kapangyarihang mana sa dambana ng kanyang mga magulang. Sapagka’t . . .walang sino mang binatang maharlika o aliping lalaking makalalapit agad sa kanyang kinaroroonan. Nag-aalaala, nangangamba, nanganganib, at nalilipos ng alang-alang at pamimitagang walang katulad sa Prinsibini ng Ma-nilad na ipinaglihi ng Prinsesa Lakambini sa di-lag at kasariwaan ng mga nilad, na sagisag ng kaharian.

Dahilan dito — maganda man, kasibu-lan man at kayumangging rosas man si Rosa Malaya — ay lagi ring nalulungkot. Ang ligaya sa kanya’y dalaw lamang ng pagkakataon, panauhin lamang ng guni-guni at pansamantalang kislap ng kasiya-han sa puso niyang wari’y may hinihintay nang wala namang hinihintay! Ang musi-kang nagbubuhat sa plawtang buho ng kanyang mga taga-aliw ay nakayayamot na sa kanyang pandinig: ang kumintangng kanyang mga mang-aawit ay naging tagulaylay na rin ng kanyang bungang-tulog na malimit dumalaw at magpatahip ng dibdib sa buong magdamag; ang lalong masasarap na pagkain at malinamnam na matamis ng niyog at iba pang bungang-ka-hoy ay namamait na sa kanyang panlasa; at maging ang kasintahan niyang kuwintas ng nilad at ilang-lang na pinagsalit sa hibla ng abakang inilalagay ng kanyang mga utusang ita sa kanyang may gilit at kayumangging leeg ay kinamumuhian na rin niya nang lumaon.

At, ang hapdi ng kalooban at di-mau-bos-maisip na lihim ng pagdaramdam ng puso’y lalong nagiging malubha’t masasabing “patawirin” kung namamasid ang nag-iisang mayang nangungulugo sa hawlang gintong nakasabitsa harap ng kanyang durungawan paharap sa Kanlu-ran. Paano’y napapansin niyang masagana man ang pagkain at dalisay man ang inumin ng maya’y hindi rin nasisiyahan; nakaaawit man, kung sakali’y wala rin ang awit na lalong matimyas at kaakit-akit sa pandinig na katulad ng sa magkasing pipit na pabagtas-bagtas sa bughaw na papawiring naaabot ng pananaw.

Sa katotohana’y naiinip siya nang walang kinaiinipan, namumuhi siya nang walang kinamumuhian; nayayamot siya nang walang kinayayamutan; at naghihin-tay siya wari sa isang darating na hindi man lamang niya mataya kung sino, kung saang pook manggagaling at kung kalian darating upang humanga, mamitagan at sumamba sa kanyang sanghaya, saka pag-katapos ay umawit ng awiting pinanabi-kan niyang malaon na sa gayong kanyang pangungulila sa gitna ng kasaganaan,

“Prinsibini” Malaya

kayamanan, kapurihan, at kaluwalhatiang maituturing ng sino mang kinapal sa balat ng lupa. . .

Isang araw, bago pa lamang nagbubu-kang-liwayway, ang isang pangahas na mandirigmang dayuhan, ay nangyaring makapamangka hanggang sa kalagitnaan ng ilog sa pinaka-bunganga ng dagat — at makapangubli sa isang tanging panig ng mga kawayanan, hindi kalayuan sa pook na napagkagawian ring tunguhan ni Prin-sibini Malaya — sa pook na masasabing pinagpala ng Katalagahan — doon sa ang bughaw ng ilog at puti ng niladay pinanu-nunghan ng Langit.

At gayon na lamang ang panggigilalas at paghanga ng mandirigmang pangahas nang masaksihan ang kagandahan ni Prin-sibini Malaya :— kagandahang sadyang pinatatangkilik sa mga biyaya ng Kata-lagahan. Nawala sa loob ng pangahasna mandirigmang dayuhan ang panganib na napipinto. Nalimutan pati kanyang pakay — ang kanyang layon. Nakaligtaan din naman ang kanyang nais na matiyak kung saan maaaring sumalakay ang mga kawal niya sa lupain ng kasaganaan at katahi-mikang malaon nang inaasam na makuha at makupkop nila. Balak nilang sumala-kay, kinabukasan, o sa lalong madaling panahon.

Sa ganyang pagkakaantala at malabis na paghanga sa kagandanhan. na itinambad sa kanyang paningin ng Pagkakataon, siya’y biglang nadakip ng matatapat na alagad ni Lakan-IIog. Nadakip siya samantalang nanunubok at nagmamasid sa Prinsibini, na noon ay nasa pakiki-panayam sa sarili niyang guniguni. . .

— Pangahas na Apo ng Buwayal — anang isang alagad ni Lakan-IIog. — Bukas din ay makakamit mo ang malaon mong hinahanap sa iyong kapangahasan. Sa pusod ng dagat, doon lalo mong masisinag ang kagandahang hindi maaar-ing tignan lamang at hangaan ng isang pangahas na katulad mo.

— Sino ka? — ang usisa ni Soliman, ang pinaka-puno ng mga alagad ni Lakan-Ilog.

— Raha Bagsik! — at naghagis ng masid sa Prinsibini.

— Ang aking hatol, — ani Raha Soliman sa isang tinig na marahas at makapangyarihan — ay talian agad siya sa leeg at lagyan ng pabigat, bago ihulog sa kabughawang iyan! — sabay turo sa pook, hindi kalayuan sa mbaklad ng mga pating na may sadyang pinto, na maaaring buk-san agad, kung hinihingi ng pagkakataon.

At, nang mapayapa ang tubig at unti-unti nang magbalik ang kabughawan, ang bayaning si Raha Bagsik ay namasid na lamang na lumalangoy na palayo. Kayapos si Prinsibini Malaya, na siyang katulong sa pakikirigma sa mga pating, sapagka’t siya rin ang naghadog ng tna-talim na punyal sa pangahas at bayaning Raha upang makipaglaban bago mamatay.

Nguni’t, aa harap ng gayong naka-lalagim na tagpo, ay biglang lumapit si Prinsibini Malaya at nagturing:

]— Bakit ninyo parurusahan ang isang humahanga sa kagandahan ng inyong Prinsibini? — Hindi nakasagot si Soli-man, na malaon nang may lihim na pag-ibig sa Bathala ng Dilag ng Lupain ni Lakan-Ilog.

—Kasalanan baga ang humanga sa kagandahan? — ang ulit pa ni Prinsibini Malaya, sa pagtatanggol sa pangahas na raha.

— Hindi kasalanan, anak ko, ang humanga sa kagandahan! — ang biglang sagot ni Lakan-Ilog na dumating noon din, — nguni’t hindi natin matitiyak kung ano ang layon ng kanyang kapangahasan. Nakataya sa panganib ang ating lupain at ang ating karangalan. Kung siya’y walang layong masama, ang mga pating ang ma-gliligtas sa kanya, kung sakali. Ipaubaya natin siya sa pasiya ng mga maninila sa kabughawan.

Lahat ay nanggilalas at si Prinsibini Ma-laya ay walang naitugon at yumukod na lamang sa kanyang ama, bilang pamimita-gan. Lumungkot ang kanyang mga mata, kasabay ng pagtatago ng Araw sa isang malaking kimpal ng panginorin.

Nang magtakip-silim na ay tinupad agad ang mga unang hakbangin sa pagpa-parusa sa pangahas na si Raha Bagsik. Nang siya’y ihulog sa tubig aykaylaki ng bulubok na nalikha sapagka’t malaki at mabigat ang batong bumatak sa taling nakagapos sa kanyang leeg at katawan.

Ang takip-silim ay lalopang lumaganap sa baybay-dagat, hanggang sa marinig ang utos sa tanod sa baklad ng mga pating na pakawalan na ang mga nanimila sa kabughawan.

— Itaas ang pinto ng baklad!At lum-agitik sa katahimikan ang mga buhong siyang pinaka-bakod sa pintuan ng baklad ng mga maninila.

— Ha, ha, haaa, haaa, aa! — hu-malakhak si Soliman.

Walang anu-ano’y narinig ang utos ni Lakan-Ilog na tanglawan ng mga sulo ang paligid upang matiyak ang pagkatupad ng parusa. Hindi naglaon at nagliwanag ang bungad ng ilog saka ang bunganga nitong bahagi ng kabughawan, na bumubulubok na ang tubig sanhi sa isang paglalamas na nangyayari doon, at namasid ang pamumula sa paglaganap ng liwanag ng mga sulo.

At, nang mapayapa ang tubig at unti-unti nang magbalik ang kabughawan, ang bayaning si Raha Bagsik ay namasid na lamang na lumalangoy na palayo. Kayapos si Prinsibini Malaya, na siyang katulong sa pakikirigma sa mga pat-ing, sapagka’t siya rin ang naghandog ng matalim na punyal sa pangahas at bayaning Raha upang makipaglaban bago mamatay.

Datapuwa’t hindi pa nalalayo si Raha Bagsik ay bigla nang lumubog, sanhi sa panghihina, bunga ng pagtatamo ng mga malubhang sugat na likha ng mga kagat ng pating sa kanyang dibdib.

Si Prinsibini Malaya ay ngumi ti, at nagbalik, na palangoy sa pook ng kanyang ama, na nagpasugo agad ng mga tagapa-

gligtas nang siya’y matanawan. Nang siya’y makaahon ay pangiting

nasabi:—Kailangan ang binhing bayani sa

ating lupain! — at yumapossa kanyang ama, bago huminging kapatawaran.

Mula na noon, ang mga alagad ni Lakan-Ilog ay naging mga tunay nang kawal at mandirigma. Dinamdam nila ang nangyari a ang ipinarinig ng kanilang Prinsibi. Hindi sukat ang mga lalaki sa isang lupain. Kaila ang magpaka-lalaki at magpakabayani!

An elderly gentleman....Had serious hearing problems for a number of

years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fi tted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%

The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, ‘Your hearing is perfect... Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again.’

The gentleman replied, ‘Oh, I haven’t told my family yet.

I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I’ve changed my will three times!’

***Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement center

were sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the other and says: ‘Slim, I’m 83 years old now and I’m just full of aches and pains. I know you’re about my age. How do you feel?’

Slim says, ‘I feel just like a newborn baby.’‘Really!? Like a newborn baby!?’‘Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I just wet

my pants.’***

An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.

The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, ‘Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great.. I would recommend it very highly.’

The other man said, ‘What is the name of the restaurant?’

The fi rst man thought and thought and fi nally said, ‘What is the name of that fl ower you give to someone you love?

You know.... The one that’s red and has thorns.’‘Do you mean a rose?’‘Yes, that’s the one,’ replied the man. He then

turned towards the kitchen and yelled, ‘Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?’

***

Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentle-man already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital.

After a chat about rules being rules, he reluc-tantly let me wheel him to the elevator.

On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.

‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.’

***Couple in their nineties are both having prob-

lems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they’re physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember ...

Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. ‘Want anything while I’m in the kitchen?’ he asks.

‘Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?’‘Sure..’‘Don’t you think you should write it down so

you can remember it?’ she asks.‘No, I can remember it.’‘Well, I’d like some strawberries on top, too.

Maybe you should write it down, so as not to forget it?’

He says, ‘I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.’

‘I’d also like whipped cream. I’m certain you’ll forget that, write it down?’ she asks.

Irritated, he says, ‘I don’t need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness sake!’

Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes, The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.. She stares at the plate for a moment.

‘Where’s my toast ?’

An elderly gentleman


Mercito Gesta

out of his 13 bouts here in the United States. His fi rst fi ght was held at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, against Carlos Madrid. This was fol-lowed by boxing bouts against Carlos Vinan, Benito Zepeda, Cristin Favela, Alain Hernandez, Devarise Crayton, Os-car Meza, Genaro Trazancos, Ivan Valle, Jorge Pimentel and Manuel Perez.

His latest and toughest bout was against Ricardo Dominguez, a two-time world title challenger who vied for the WBC and IBF lightweight titles last year. The double-headliner event was held Nov. 12, last year, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. This bout with Dominguez was the third fi ght for Mercito as a Top Rank fi ghter.

Mercito’s “Team Gesta” here in San Diego is composed of his coach, Vince Parra, a former professional boxer; another coach, Anecito Gesta, his father; his manager, Joel Coombs, owner of the Alliance Boxing Gym; his consultant, Bumpy Parra, professional boxer here in the U.S. during the 60’s who was re-cently inducted in the California Boxing Hall of Fame; and his cut man, Stephen Lunas, Jr., a registered nurse.

After his well-deserved vacation in the Philippines, Mercito came back to San Diego, bringing his father, Anecito, with him to help in his training. Mercito and his dad paid us a visit to personally deliver a certifi cate of promotion for my husband, GM Narrie Babao, from Supreme Grand Master Cacoy Canete. SGM Canete promoted Narrie to 10th degree black belt. Anecito Gesta is also a member of the Cacoy Doce Pares World Federation.

Mercito trains hard for every fi ght. He has trained and sparred with some of the big names in boxing, such as Antonio de Marco, current lightweight champion of the world; Shane Mosley, former welterweight champion of the world; and Amir Khan, also a former welterweight champion of the world.

Vince Parra, his coach, is confi dent that there are great things ahead for this young boxer. Parra also said that right now he is working hard with Top Rank for a huge fi ght for Mercito this year.

“I am working with Top Rank and I believe things will happen,” Parra said. “If I have my say, the guys that I want for Mercito to fi ght with are Ricky Burns, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Antonio de Marco. “ Burns is the for-mer WBO super featherweight titlist and the current interim WBO lightweight champion, while “Bam Bam” Rios holds the WBA lightweight title. De Marco is the reigning WBC lightweight king. - Zena Sultana Babao

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and group personalities with quite different approaches toward peace making.

As intermediaries in the dispute, we labored hard. Did we accomplish our mis-sion? It was perceived that we did in one way or another, but there were those who said otherwise. The father eventually sued his son for attempted murder. This is the truth within a Filipino group and family. It’s a family of shame.

These efforts have prompted me to write this piece about our peace-making abilities even in family fude among Filipinos. We Filipino born, respect our parents, a culture culled from the Spaniards. American born Filipinos have no admiration for their parents. They are worst compared with primates. “If it is not blasphemy, I would like to extrapolate the behavior of non-human primates regarding peacemaking to human efforts. I’d say the former know how to do it, the latter does it in a complex transaction.”

For our perspective, it is an interesting phenomenon that primates are able to form a stable social relationship. This observa-tion has been described by ethnologists and primatologists based on keen observations of non-human primates in captivity. For in-stance in a group of primates, “...the mem-bers are simultaneous friends and rivals, squabbling and fi ghting for food and water, but thereafter, becomes friends and comfort

each other by means of body contact.”Some have theorized that these animals

realize they cannot win a fi ght without los-ing a friend; therefore, they have developed some forms of behavior, which are either to reduce damage afterwards. “The fi rst solution is known as tolerance, the second, reconciliation.” With these traits, they maintain their communities and manage to live in a cohesive fashion for many years in spite of non-ending and veritable battle-grounds.

There appears to be a “cooling system, a highly developed one that prevents overheating, explosions or disintegration of the social machinery.” Aggression in these primates does not lead to dispersal. The healing process somehow is swift; it does not wait for the time to heal the wounds.

“The peacemaking strategies of the chim-panzees, the bonobos, Rhesus monkeys and stump-tailed monkeys, ranging from pant grunt, intense sexual contact, grooming the fur of their rival and bottom hold respec-tively are amusingly interesting.”

Now consider the human behavior. “They hug and kiss, test and offer through intermediaries, smile or offer an aloof handshake and apologies.” There is no

difference between apes and humans peace-making strategies, except that we humans approach it with great complexities and diffi culties compared with primates. I beg your pardon for this amusing comparison. The juxtaposition of the peacemaking behavior of humans and primates, trivial and mundane, we have to reconcile, for it is not paradoxical.

If we do not learn to make our recon-ciliation processes work, then I venture to say that we should learn from our closest relatives, the primates. If they can do it, why can’t we-the “fi fth species” - do it? We must stir to these strategies in every Fil-Am family and association. As the saying goes, a gentleman is a man who can “disagree without being disagreeable” by James Conant.

( Dr. Cesar D. Candari is an author of a book entitled “SUCCESS IS A JOURNEY” memoirs of a Filipino American doctor cre-ating a life from Antique to America. Visit www. amazon.com; http://www.pandan.ph http://www.pandan.ph/news/2010/11/08/from-antique-to-america-memoirs-of-a-fi lipino-american-doctor/ ).


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