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AN ANSWER! AN ANSWER! MY CROWN FOR AN ANSWER! |
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – From Shakespeare’s Richard III, 1594 comes one of his best known lines, “A Horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” The quotation is sometimes now repeated ironically when someone is in need of some unimportant item.
King Richard III’s appeal might very well have been Miss Philippines 2010 Venus Raj’s personal plea.
Miss Philippines 2010, Venus Raj, was one of the favorites in this year’s Miss Universe, but the wrong answer cost Miss Philippines the crown!
Miss Philippines were surely in the running for Miss Universe 2010, and she almost made it, but her wrong answer did not impress the judges much and ended up costing her the Miss Universe crown. She told the judge she hadn’t made any big mistake in her life, which some people are indeed speculating might have priced her out of the crown.
Do you – my dear folks - think Miss Philippines’ answer charges her, the crown?
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California hospital bans hiring of Filipino nurses |
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August 22, 2010 09:26:00
Emil Guillermo
INQUIRER.net
CALIFORNIA, United States—I love Filipino nurses.
Next to cheap garments at Wal-Mart and female impersonators, I’d have to put them on the top of the list as the Philippines’ leading export.
If the country had a team mascot, it would have to be the “Fighting Nurses.” (Notre Dame has the “Fighting Irish,”
why not?)
So, of course, I’m alarmed by the news that a de facto ban against hiring Filipino nurses at the St. Luke’s Campus of Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) appears to be policy in San Francisco.
No Filipinos, as blatant as that. Just like the old sign that the Filipino National Historical Society displays, the one from the 1920s that reads, “Positively No Filipinos Allowed.”
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In the renewed debate on the proposal to allow divorce in the Philippines, it is almost certain that the fact that outside of the Vatican, the Philippines remains, along with tiny island-nation Malta, the only country in the world with no divorce law.
Why is this? The primary reason, of course, is the stubborn stand of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines against it. The church has remained blind to the realities of modern Philippine society, just as it has remained incognizant of the adverse effects of uncontrolled population growth to the Philippines and its people.
Extreme poverty, lack of education, financial problems, prolonged separation (in the case of couples where one or both are working abroad) and other social ills that were not prevalent until about a few decades ago are putting many marriages in the Philippines under tremendous pressure.
The phenomenon of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos departing for work abroad annually, leaving behind their spouses and children has resulted in broken families and wayward children. It is not uncommon for the spouse left behind to commit adultery, and their children to grow amidst this immoral environment and without the guidance of both parents. The same goes for the spouse abroad, who meets another man or woman, married or unmarried, who shares his or her loneliness and cohabitate, sometimes bearing illegitimate children.
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Some like it hot, some like it cold |
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Have you noticed the dramatic changes in the weather of lately? There was a period last month when it suddenly became cold late in the afternoon. Recently, it has become so sunny and hot during the day that people find themselves sweating with even the slightest physical activity.
I can pretty much deal with the hot weather, having been born and raised in the tropical islands of the Philippines. After all, there's only two kinds seasons in the Philippines — sunny and rainy season.
But even these days I use some kind of blanket — even during summer time. Perhaps it is more of a security blanket that gives me that fuzzy comfortable feeling I’ve become come familiar with.
I know also that I get easily afflicted with colds or coughs once I am exposed to the cold elements, whether night or day.
The point that I am trying to make with this simple admission of self-awareness is that like anyone else, I have degrees of tolerance dictated by the weather that affects the level and kind of activities I participate in, as well as my moods.
I like it hot, especially since the beautiful summer weather in San Diego encourages an active lifestyle. I also like it cold, especially on occasions such as the winter holidays, when you have the natural propensity to feel the warmth and closeness with your loved ones.
The expression “some like it hot, some like it cold” illustrates the fact that we each have our own level of tolerance and resistance with even the simple things that we deal with on a daily basis. |
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Crystal clear America’s still the one |
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Let me be clear, it is too early to know how history will judge the presidency of Barack Obama. To guess at the legacy of a sitting president is a dangerous game. History is, after all, a mysterious lady who often misbehaves, who delights in going against pattern; rarely is this more evident than in American politics.
Still, the past shines enough light to allow some certainties.
In a summer of discontent, I say the last few weeks have certainly been a nightmare for President Obama. As the president’s popularity is plunging evident by poll numbers that continue to spiral downward, many Americans are beginning to doubt his promised “change we can believe in” and even his chances for a second term, for that matter. Rocked by the growing backlash against his rushed and radical health care overhaul and his unprecedented spending spree, more and more Americans are concerned that the country is on the wrong track and headed for something they don’t like a bit.
America’s thirst for wholesale change of its time-tested institutions has indeed been vastly overestimated by those folks in power. In short, most Americans are now “dealing with it” so to speak.
Chastened and willing to – dare we say it – change – Americans now tend to look back to their roots and the principles upon which this great nation was founded.
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