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For two days in November, cemeteries around the Philippines will be packed with people - both living and dead. Nope, it’s not a belated Halloween celebration.
November 1 and 2 mark All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, when the nation gets a mandatory non-working holiday to remember the day of the dead, in festive, Thanksgiving-like family […]
Filipina Soul would like to congratulate the mega-star Ms. Sharon Cuneta! Her show “Sharon” won as best entertainment program at the 2007 Catholic Mass Media Awards held last October 25, 2007.
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Sharon also appears on the cover of Metro this month. In her interview with Ramil Gulle, which you can read on her blog, […]
Can you guess these correctly?
1. Hugis ay bituin, papel na nagniningning. (Star-shaped paper that shines.)
2. Binatak ko ang isa, tatlo pa ang sumama. (I pulled one, three others came with it.)
3. Walang ulo, walang isip parang isda kung sumisid; gayong wala ni palikpik, kay haba ng naliligid. (It has no head. It has no […]
This will be my last post about the Estrada pardon. I am tired and emotionally drained. I’m still unable to fathom the decision to pardon a convicted plunderer of millions. The news that thousands of Erap’s supporters welcomed him home saddened me. These are the same people that Erap stole from.
Consider this :
Social Security System […]
This headline by the Philippine Daily Inquirer may explain it:
Arroyo was finally acknowledged by Erap that she is THE president, not him.
The irony of it all is that, after accepting the presidential pardon, Erap still insisted that he is innocent.
“I may have committed mistakes in my career in public service, but I assure you corruption […]
Former President Fidel Ramos:
“a terrible, terrible calamity to the great, great, great majority of the Filipino people who have suffered from the plunder.”
Sen. Richard Gordon:
“I am revolted by the whole scenario … I am not questioning her right to pardon but I am questioning her responsibility.”
Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan:
“It is highly questionable and inappropriate […]
In all my time writing here at Filipina Soul, nothing, and I mean NOTHING!, has made my blood boil as this news of Estrada’s pardon. It is an embarrassment! A mockery! A !?!@?!?@@! There are not enough words for it!
Just weeks after his conviction, President Arroyo does the unthinkable and sets this thief free. In […]
As “Heroes of the Environment”, he is in the same list as Al Gore, Prince Charles and Mikhail Gorbachev.
VON HERNANDEZ - former literature professor, activist, environmentalist, and Greenpeace campaign director for Southeast Asia.
Hernandez is one of Asia’s leading activists against waste incineration. Instead he advocates the effective, polluatant-free technology that is recyling and recomposting of […]
You have got to be kidding me!!!
ABS-CBN/Agence France Presse just reported that former President Joseph Estrada may just be granted a Presidential pardon by Friday. A unnamed source from Erap’s camp disclosed this today, October 25.
So just wait a minute here. What was all that hoopla that the Sandiganbayan went through for six long years?! […]
Lea Salonga’s run as Fantine in Broadway’s production of Les Miserables has ended. With the last show, Lea has said goodbye to the part she has called “the role of a lifetime”. We’d like to congratulate Lea for her successful time as Fantine! You can read her sentiments on her blog.
Lea did this interview with […]
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