Building a vocabulary in Mandarin can be challenging. What takes so long to remember by rote is so easily forgotten. But there is help. When learning Chinese characters, working with vocabulary lists a certain way can help you remember the words more quickly. If you have ever tried cramming a list of words for an […]
Time is all we have. Time that solidifies into moments. Moments that are priceless. Moments that we can share throughout our lives. There are some things in life worth waking up early for: going to church, a long drive to Baguio, an early morning flight and so on. But bird watching at the University of […]
Hepatitis is a general term for inflammation of the liver, which can be caused by several viruses. At present, there are hepatitis A, B, C, D, E and G. There is no hepatitis F. Because the virus attacks the liver, all the symptoms are also related to the liver. As the largest internal organ in […]
This past five-day weekend had been both a blast and a horror at home. When the Quezon City government announced on July 8 that classes were suspended until the 10th, I started having palpitations. The girls were going to be stuck in the house with nothing to do and, predictably, they started fighting over every […]
For Earl Samuel Ty Chua the land of opportunity is not the United States where he was born, but rather the Philippines from which his parents migrated. Through his fledgling fast food restaurant FaBurrito, he hopes to leave his mark in the world of business. Born in San Francisco in August 1983, Chua is the […]
My husband and I had a great laugh when we saw a series of signs – saying “Boycott China Products Now!!” – recently lining a street behind St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City and ending at the barangay hall on Broadway corner E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave. We immediately looked at the tags of the clothes […]
First published in Tulay Fortnightly, Chinese-Filipino Digest 28, no. 3 (July 7-20, 2015): 9. This is a new generation. The generation Uy, Yu and Lao belong to is different. They are native-born. They are Filipinos. In 1970, I was a student at the University of the Philippines. One late afternoon, two men came to see […]
Few Catholic priests in the Philippines are “pure Chinese.” There are many who have mixed Chinese and Filipino ancestry whose families practice the Catholic faith actively, so when they decided to enter the priesthood, the choice of vocation was seen as a blessing. Young Catholics from traditional Chinese families often find it difficult to explain […]
We are going to war, Dad said the night before he enlisted. A month later, the soldiers came for my older brother, Ethan. He was going to graduate from high school this year. Mom was so distraught afterwards, the rim of her eyes were a constant red and the dark circles underneath her eyes got […]
My ahia Benjamin Sim studied animal husbandry, taught biology in Davao, and became spiritual shepherd to many Tsinoy Catholics. As the first-born son in a Tsinoy family, the path to priesthood for him took determination to follow. Ahia was tapped to join the family retail business, and his choice to become a priest met with […]