Sina Chad, Jurain, at Daday mga Pag-Asa ng Bayan!
Hayaan ninyong itanim namin ang inyong mga kwento, isulat ang mga ito, at ipasa sa mga susunod na henerasyon ng kabataang Pilipino. Hayaan ninyong itanim namin kayo upang magbunga ng napakarami pang kabataang kasing tatapang at gagaling ninyo, Chad at Jurain. Noong ika-24 ng Pebrero, ilang linggo lang ang nakakalipas, nabalitaan ng buong bansa ang …
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Magic in Dean Merlin’s Classroom
To paraphrase the good Ambassador, Dean Merlin may ‘have confused us all in class, but as we learned later as we practiced our professions, all he did was sharpen our minds’ Dean Merlin Magallona, who died on New Year’s Day at 87 years of age, spoke in a monotone, a voice that was flat and …
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The Joy of 40 years of Teaching
Note: I wrote this first in 2010 but have revised it several times since then. To celebrate Teacher’s Day and to incorporate my experience of teaching in the pandemic, I rewrote it again today – 5 October 2021. There are five things I am immensely grateful for in my life. These are, and not necessarily …
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The Will of God
“Faith gives us all the courage to embrace our grief and continue to love.” In times of extreme adversity and calamity, such as during this pandemic, many of us are asking these questions: Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is loving and compassionate, then why would that all powerful Being allow …
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The Unfinished Legacy of Noynoy Aquino
Co-Written with Christian Laluna ‘The worst thing the opposition can do is to claim PNoy solely as their own and to use his death as a rallying cry against fellow Filipinos of goodwill’ President Benigno Aquino III left the country a mixed, surely imperfect, but overall good legacy. We saw that he tried his best, …
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Tony La Viña 