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Punchline
The 'SC', a whole new world
By Ermin Garcia Jr.
As someone
who has been blest with the ownership of a senior citizen's card for
a year now, I feel it my duty, nay my responsibility to write about
my new kind of people - the beautiful, all-knowing senior citizens.
Before my conversion to this glorious
state, I have always considered the senior citizen (SC) tag as a
moniker for those who have been cruelly sidelined, made to yield not
only their precious right to assert themselves, but to continue to
dream the impossible and to enjoy everything meant for the young.
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Think about It
 Art
Lomibao eyes JdV post
By Jun Velasco
AT the Lyceum Northwestern U's graduation rites at the
Stadia Saturday, Commission on Higher Education Chairman
Manny Angeles said his office will uphold at all times
the merit system and, logically, rebuke the misfit, the
abusive and the corrupt in the field of higher
education.
Latest
beneficiary of his laudable policy is the University of
Luzon which was recently granted autonomous status for
five years from March ll, 2009
to March 30, 20l4. He wrote President Dr. Macky Samson
about CHEd’s salute to the school's "accomplishments,
adherence to quality assistance and commitment to public
responsibility and accountability that a higher
education provides."
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 The
Lessons of Lent
By Gonzalo Duque
WE saw the graphic face of man’s (and
woman’s) suffering when we served during
the Ramos presidency as Deputy
Administrator of the Philippine Overseas
Employment Administration (POEA) in the
early 90’s. It was quite an experience.
Yes, the tragic face of poverty is all
over the land nowadays. How do we know
that God loves the poor? Answer: because
they are more, the poor, comprising 85
percent of humanity. Majority rules.
Marami sila, di sila ang minamahal ng
Maykapal.
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 Essence
of Easter Sunday, happy birthday Kuya Boy!
By Al S. Mendoza
TODAY being Easter Sunday, my prayer is for Dear God -
whoever your God is - to be with you always.
Easter symbolizes life, as in the sun rising in the East
to remind us of our being born every now and then
because of the will of God; thy will be done.
I believe in the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ, our God. His
coming to life again after three days as written in the
scriptures is the essence of Easter Sunday.
Some religions other than the
Roman Catholic do not observe Holy Week. That Easter
Sunday is non-existent.
Fine, fine.
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A Kabaleyan's Thoughts...
Proud to be Filipino
By
S. Bill Jimenez
Thank
God I’m Filipino
TGIF! Thank God I’m Filipino! Indeed, I’m proud and
grateful as a Filipino. Meeting other nationalities I’d
say, “Yes, I’m Filipino. Ako’y Filipino. On, Filipino
ac. Yo soy Filipino.” I tell something good about the
Philippines and Filipinos. We have some 7000 islands and
87 dialects. We have many tourist attractions like the
Hundred Islands in my province of Pangasinan. That our
number one export to the world’s global market is our
people. Mostly professionals. OFWs who bring billions of
dollars to the Philippine economy. Our people,
especially women are veritable beautiful tourist
attractions. They are friendly, hospitable, happy,
helpful and hopeful.
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Harvest Time
 Deodorize
pig manure with fedgrozyme
By
Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico
THE OBNOXIOUS smell of pig manure is a big problem of
every swine raiser unless they know how to go about in
eliminating the foul odor. However, Hipolito "Jun"
Saoyao and Marianito Garinggo of Tubao, La Union have
licked the problem by adding an enzyme-based solution
called Fedgrozyme to the feeds.
In a
seminar on livestock production and management, Jun
learned from Dr. Jovita Datuin, a livestock expert and
head of the Ilocos Integrated Agriculture Research
Center (ILIARC) of the Department of Agriculture, that
the offensive odor of swine manure could be eliminated
by adding Fedgrozyme to the feeds. Incidentally, Jun is
the chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the Tubao
Sangguniang Bayan.
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 2009
Easter Sunday Message "I have risen. I am with you once
more."
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
It is
not a secret that our dear country has been long
besieged by numerous and serious socio-moral errancies –
primarily caused by a good number of our corrupt and
corrupting politicians from the national to the local
levels. The pitiful and shameful profound and the
pervasive results of such pronounced and compounded
moral maladies are the poverty and hunger of people, the
division and exasperation of the Filipinos – with some
suicides committed here and there.
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 2
national tours on this year
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
It
was in
the years 1974, 1975 and 1976 when two national tours
were conducted. These were the Tour of PICCA (Philippine
Industrial Commercial Cycling Association) formed by the
late Antonio Kairuz, a cycling magnate; and Tour of
Luzon, the more popular and fabled race pioneered by the
late Atty. Geruncio Lacuesta.
In1977, there were three. Tour ng Pilipinas
with Atty. Mat Defensor (now a congressman of Metro
Manila) at the helm was added. These were all
participated in by big names in Philippine cycling and
different cyclists emerged as champions, including this
piece-maker, Manuel Reynante, Samson Cariño and Domingo
Quilban, to name some.
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Sad tales
By
Marifi Jara
LOOK, no Quelimane, Mozambique dateline here! And I am
smiling, happy to be back in Pangasinan for a couple of
months.
By
some interesting twist of fate, the first Filipino
friend I made when I arrived at the airport in Maputo,
the capital of Mozambique, last year was also flying out
for a vacation on the same day I was. And we were
actually on the same flight to Johannesburg, but from
there, she was taking a Dubai-Manila flight while I was
on a Hong Kong-Manila journey. It was so lovely
chitchatting because we never saw each other again while
in Mozambique as she lives in another city though we've
had occasional texts and got wind of news about each
other through a few common Filipino friends.
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An exercise in
futility
By
Emmanuelle
If
she did not switch off the lights and if she did not
turn down the earphones, she would not have seen and she
would not have heard the little girl crying. In the
rain. At ten in the evening.
As it was, without the drums in her ear,
May did hear other sounds. But only after she pushed the
curtains aside to let in the smell of the rain, did she
see. Across the fence, down to the neighbor's yard.
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