Monthly Archives: December 2012
Christmas Ailments
by Dr. Philip S. Chua.
December 1, 2012
Is there an illness called Christmas Disease? Yes, there is, but it has nothing to do with the Christmas season. Christmas Disease is a blood disease, also known as Hemophilia B or factor IX hemophilia. It is a hereditary bleeding disorder due to deficiency in coagulation factor IX. This condition is X-linked recessive inheritance, affecting only males, and occurs in 1 in 100,000 male births. This illness causes spontaneous bleeding in the joints. Continue reading
Ang Mga Sulating Dapat Basahin ng mga Magpapabasa ng mga Isusulat
by Fermin Salvador.
December 1, 2012
Sa Pilipinas, ipinagdiriwang ang Linggo ng mga Aklat tuwing Nobyembre 24 – 30 na pinasimulan ni Pangulong Quezon noong 1936. Sa loob ng life span ko ay nakita ko ang pagbabago mula sa inililimbag na encyclopedia patungo sa wikipedia. Continue reading
The Seven Mystical Gifts
by Fred C. Wilson III
December 1, 2012
Christmas is the time for giving. What better way to celebrate the Holiday spirit than share the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. We can’t bestow His Gifts on others or ourselves; only God can. We can share the Spirit’s gifts by Christian living but we can’t give what we don’t have. Continue reading
Gratitude Countdown Continues Post Thanksgiving
by Nelia Dingcong Bernabe
December 1, 2012
As we transition over to the holiday of gift giving and spreading cheers, my gratitude countdown does not stop simply because Thanksgiving 2012 came and went. It’s been a few weeks, I know, but last month was election month and that sapped all my energy out. The anticipation was killing me and by the time Election Day came, I could not wait for it to be over. I was tired and ready to move on. Continue reading
Is The US Heading To Another Recession?
by Don Azarias
December 1, 2012
According to the Reuters News, two of the nation’s premier economists are concerned and pessimistic that the White House and Capitol Hill will be able to strike a deal to rein in America’s soaring national debt and make a compromise to extend the Bush tax cuts. Consequently, both are predicting that the United States is heading for another recession in 2013. Continue reading
The Gift I Gave …
by Arnold De Villa
December 1, 2012
After Thanksgiving, driving around the neighborhood, inflated plastic Turkeys, pumpkins and pilgrims left the front yards of our block while colored lights arrived and glittered trees, bushes and rooftops. Continue reading
NEHS 2012 Most Outstanding Alumnus
by Carmelita Cochingco Ballesteros.
December 1, 2012
On November 25, my friend Letty and I of Class 68 went to Cabanatuan City to attend yet another class reunion of Nueva Ecija High School graduates. Letty used her pick-up and was at the wheels from Metro Manila to Cabanatuan City and back. It was a four-hour drive one way. Continue reading
Corruption in the media
December 1, 2012
Last November 23, 2012, President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III in a keynote address at the 9th Media Nation Summit, spoke about corruption in the media, which was the theme of the conference. He called on the media industry to develop “common standards” to prevent corruption, saying that the lack of which could lead to corruption. Continue reading
A Sentimental Christmas Journey
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.— Anonymous
Last year’s Christmas was the happiest I’ve had in years. Though it was only the second Christmas I had been away from my kids, the time I spent with my siblings and their families on this most celebrated Christian holiday more than made up for this one occasion that I had to miss my children. Continue reading
Crying for justice
December 1, 2012
Brutal, barbaric, heinous. No amount of words can aptly describe the massacre of 58 people, 32 of them journalists and media workers, on November 23, 2009 near Ampatuan town in Maguindanao.This carnage defied comprehension. Continue reading