by jun asuncion A cruel twist of fate would have it that the Ketsana Foundation’s library project be deferred to another propitious time. The unimaginable scale of destruction to lives and properties, the unfathomable depth of sorrows and pains, existential angst and social displacement… Read More ›
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Benefit Concert 2013
by junasun The Ketsana Foundation in Zürich which was founded by Franklin Patricio and Milagros Asuncion, with active members Jun Asuncion and Elizabeth Patricio, has organized another Benefit Concert in Zürich this coming November 21, 2013 which will be held at the Gemeindesaal Zollikon, Rotfluhstrasse 96, … Read More ›
DPWH engineers in Bicol scored poorly in promotional test
BusinessMirror.com.ph Sunday, 01 January 2012 20:29 by Manly M. Ugalde / Correspondent LEGAZPI CITY—Public works and highways engineers in Bicol scored dismally in the most recent Civil Service Promotional Test conducted by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). The… Read More ›
An Asuncion Riding On The Crest Of A Wave
My cousin Eduardo Rojas just informed me about Amado Gabriel Esteban, a cousin who is now President of Seton Hall University in the United States Of America, the first Filipino so far to hold this prestigious position. Bulan Observer congratulates… Read More ›
An Asuncion at Mensa- Switzerland
A personal note, written primarily for my relatives and for those interested in child psychology. Way back in the 1980’s, during my college years in Manila, my favorite psychology subjects were psychological testing (psychometrics), projective techniques, psychopathology, mental hygiene, theories of personality, experimental… Read More ›
Lawmaker seeks tax deduction for families with children with disability
OFFICE OF REP. DEOGRACIAS B. RAMOS, JR NEWS RELEASE Government should help ease the financial burden on families caring for children with special needs by allowing a deduction on a parent or legal guardian’s taxable income. Rep…. Read More ›
The Roughness Of Times
by jun asuncion The search for the roots can never be a one-man undertaking even if given the time and the means to pursue it. It is a teamwork. For unlike writing an article on a particular theme,… Read More ›
The Noodle In Asuncions’ Soup
by jun asuncion Clarifying some confusions. I’ve tried to know whether our patriarch Mariano Kagalitan was originally a native Muslim. He was for sure not a mestizo of any kind or a Spaniard for he also had to change his… Read More ›
The Asuncions In Politics, Arts And Sciences
by jun asuncion Part I: The Search Begins This post is my reply to this comment from Jeffrey, an Asuncion. This made me take out my copy of our Family Tree which I got from my sister Menchu. The research for… Read More ›
Three D’s of Success
by Jess Guim, Taga-Bulan sa New York City Whatever you do in life, you always expect success as the end result of your efforts. But victory is not easy and could not be achieved without nurturing these three D’s of… Read More ›
Slings and Arrows (random thoughts)
by Oliver Geronilla I don’t live in cloud-cuckoo land; so, I won’t pretend that black is white. For the nonce, let me do a double take at the scintillating points raised in some of the articles here. Quite… Read More ›
We Can Do Much More To Our Country
by Gemma Dimaculangan ( Her letter as posted on the Internet and later published in Inquierer.net) (This letter was forwarded to me by a good friend. I find it representative of how today’s Filipinos think and feel about the issues… Read More ›
Life Goes On In Canipaan: The Faces Of Hope
In Remembrance Of Manay Edna by: jun asuncion (click photo to view Teachers’ Gallery) They were Manay Edna’s faithful daily companions in her work as a teacher to our young Tagabulans- her teaching colleagues in the Bulan… Read More ›
Lessons That We Should Have Learned Long Time Ago…
October 15, 2008 at 4:49 pm · from rudybellen On Technology Development : The research agency that virtually turned Taiwan around from an agrarian to an industrialized economy suggests that the Philippines should put up a similar agency that… Read More ›
When A Shaman Runs Amok
Or, The Problem Of Depression And Violence In Finland It happened just a few hours after I have posted my previous article about Finland: In Kauhajoki, Finland, a Finnish gunman ran amok killing several students in a classroom. This horror echoes last November… Read More ›
A Lesson From The Shamans, Witches And Magicians
Or, Education in Finland by jun asuncion What do I know about Finland aside from my nokia handy and the outstanding PISA ranking? I digged down and remembered Alvar Aalto, (February 3, 1898 – May 11, 1976) a celebrated Finnish architect… Read More ›
The Great Filipino Dream
Or, Greed Over Education (This is actually my response to attybenji’s comment on Teachers, Don’t Leave Us Kids Alone!) You may recall that Mrs. Arroyo refers to college education as the ‘great Filipino dream’. Indeed she’s right this time considering… Read More ›
Teachers, Don’t Leave Us Kids Alone!
Teacher’s salary should be doubled! A wishful thinking? Yes, this is maybe a dream but one that rests upon solid foundation- upon our constitution in Article XIV, Section 5 (5) which says that” The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority… Read More ›
THE ELUSIVE JUSTICE AFTER 25 YEARS!
August 21, 2008 at 2:55 pm · Or, the Prepared Speech That Was Never Read. By attybenji Ninoy Aquino said, “The Filipino is worth dying for.” In retrospect, Twenty Five (25) years after Ninoy Aquino’s death, only his murderer, the… Read More ›
“Never To Own Anything That Is Not Ours”
Never to own anything that is not ours? A Confusian analect, Marxist’s dialectic or Nietzsche’s geneaology of morals? No, it’s from the mouth of a poor, malnourished Filipino boy, with barely nothing to put into his mouth but turned in… Read More ›
When Money Is Not Everything
By: Dora The Mouse When I was a child growing up, I’ve seen poverty and misery at a very young age. I experienced hunger and deprivation like everybody else around my neighborhood. Those were the years when one can… Read More ›
Poignant Memories of the Distant Past
Our Land Of Paradise By: Tiger Of Serengeti Once upon a time, many decades ago, there were these beautiful islands sitting in the middle of the vast blue ocean on the other side of the world undisturbed of its… Read More ›
A CALL FOR MORAL REVOLUTION?
Or, A Change Must Come From Within! by: atty. benji “Watch your thoughts, they become words; Watch your words, they become actions; Watch your actions, they become habits; Watch your habits, they become character; Watch your character, for it becomes… Read More ›
HONOR THY FATHER & THY MOTHER!
Or, Belated Happy Mother’s Day. by : attybenji Honor thy Father and thy Mother – is the best and everlasting presents that child can give to the his/her parents, specially the mother (free of charge), when we all celebrated the… Read More ›
THERE’S NO FAILURE, ONLY SUCCESS DELAYED!
“I have persevered against difficulties, I rose up against defeats &, I conquered the failures of the past”. by atty. benji A billboard in one of the sweepstakes ticket outlets in Quiapo, reads “A quitter never wins; a… Read More ›
