Stress the Holiday

The holiday is upon us and everyone is in mad dash to get the perfect gift for their families and loved ones. Studies have shown that it is through the holidays that people get stressed out the most and have therefore caused some strain in relationships, financial, emotional etc. aspects of our lives.

Welcome to a new year of change and discovery

And now let us welcome the New Year
Full of things that have never been.
-Rainier Maria Rilke

SAN DIEGO, Calif.– “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job,” President Harry Truman once observed, “and it’s a depression when you lose your own.” As downturns in the global economy disturb more and more households, we begin to question seriously the financial yardstick by which we have been measuring our personal net worth and therefore our happiness.

An old year has completed its course

HOUSTON, Tex.– An old year – 2008 - has almost completed its course. A new year – 2009 - is smiling at us with twelve months of the unknown. An entire ocean of possibilities, including both sun-drenched days and a few storms with howling winds and giant waves, stretch out across the uncharted waters. If we let ourselves, we could become so afraid of the potential dangers, so safety conscious, we would miss the adventure.

Year of fears and hopes

LOS ANGELES, Cailf.–After quietly celebrating Christmas Day, many people must now face reality and ask themselves: What’s ahead in 2009? How are we going to cope?

The Wisdom of our lawmakers in treating the Filipino Equity Bill

Our struggles for honor and dignity as Filipino American veterans of World War II bears witness to the fact that 64 years fighting for benefits due them is still an elusive issue which the 110th Congress failed to act considerably in favor of the surviving vets who served under the American flag.