Witnessing community happenings recently made me remember a word my friends and I coined in our younger days.  I thought age and time would have eliminated the ‘art of papelation’ but it seems not, for there are those who indulge in…

The Philippine Community Council (pee-cee-cee) has been haunted with paranormal activities for years. Such activities were heightened around election time as ghost whisperers go through their rituals of breathing life onto dead clubs. It’s been a supernatural phenomenon that has…

Around this time of the year, people in the Philippine Community Council (pee-cee-cee) become extra nice and slip on their best behaviour.  It’s say hello time and they’re there at every event and function.  After being ignored all year, you’ll…

I’ve been swept off my feet a few times before.  And the last time I got a piggy-back was from my Dad many moons ago to avoid the rising flood waters.  But then, I was a child.

So when television cameras…

 A nation wept; heads of states and heads of government sent their condolences to a grieving nation; people reminisced; words uttered with respect; and the world watched as the Philippines was on prime time television for a few brief seconds. …

All the clubs and organisations who marched as “one” Filipino contingent at the Blacktown Street Parade deserve to be congratulated.  Despite the little hiccups behind the scenes, at least Filipinos were perceived as one group this time albeit the individual banners…

Oh my, it would seem that more and more people are inclined to lie!  Is this the latest trend or something I’ve missed? Maybe the propensity to lie has been there all along.  I’ve probably just started noticing it more.

Call…

As I write this column, I sit on the brink of time, ready to cruise down life’s highway marked 2009. It’s a New Year, the Year of the Ox and the International Year of Reconciliation.

As old father time ticks…

If I keep scratching my head, I think I might scratch it open or run out of hair.  The things that happen behind the scenes of community events make me really wonder “what on earth were they thinking?”  For that…

I can’t remember how many times I’ve crossed the international dateline.  Most times I didn’t have to cross any dateline.  Time was either on fast forward or rewinding depending on which direction I was headed for.  

I’ve been blessed with…