The years have fled. Achi has graduated from elementary school. It seems only yesterday that I began writing this parenting column filled with baby articles and our family’s struggles with a toddler. I now have a preteen who is beginning to carve out her own life. She agrees to be my baby forever, still giving […]
Hong Kong is known as a cosmopolitan city, one of Asia’s business centers and shopping capitals. While the city has tourist attractions set in nature such as Victoria Peak and Lantau Island located on its outskirts, not a lot of people know that there are ways to interact with nature within the city itself. Hong […]
Hokkien, on the tongues of Tsinoys, has grown and evolved, taking on a life of its own. Sometimes words simply fail us. With some creativity, Tsinoys have strung together words to form colorful phrases that simply hit the bull’s eye. Here are some expressions unique to Hokkien as favored by Tsinoys. Idioms, expressions Hokkien pronunciation […]
There are ample historical records of relations between the Philippines and China. They reveal strategies for evangelizing China, trade routes and revolution. They show the strategic importance of the Philippines to Spanish attempts to christianize China, and to profit from the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade. They delve into the origins of Chinese-looking Igorots to the north, […]
Rare are the friendships that weather the good times and bad, bringing friends through thick and thin and last more than a millennium. Such is the historical friendship between the Philippines and China, a relationship that has been chronicled as early as the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Exchanges existed at all levels, from vibrant trade to […]
One reason I love visiting historical houses is the fact that I always learn something from the visits. By carefully studying their architecture, the houses’ interiors and contents, the lives of the people that lived there and the times they lived in can be discerned. Such was the case when I recently visited Mira Nila […]
A fter conquering the Liang (梁) capital, Jian Kang (建康, now Nanjing), Liang’s renegade general Hou Jing (後景) sent an army led by military superintendent Hou Zi Jian (侯子鑒) from the middle army to besiege Wu Xing (吳興) prefecture in September 549. Wu Xing’s defending army was small, its fighting capacity weak. Its mayor, Zhang […]
The sight of water pails lined up in long rows that snake through blocks of houses, waiting for the water tanker or the fire trucks to fill them up, isn’t new. We’ve seen a lot of this during water service interruptions, especially in the summer. The difference this time is that it’s happening even before […]
Crimes related to casino or online gambling are on the rise. They no longer just result in torture and extortion but also in kidnapping, suicides and outright homicide and murder. The incidents are rising because the victims rarely cooperate with authorities to pursue the case and punish the perpetrators. Thus, in many of these cases, […]
D o you have high blood pressure? Ideal blood pressure is 120 over 80. And high blood pressure means you have a blood pressure more than 140 over 90. By shifting to a whole food plant based diet (WFPH), plus regular walking of 30 minutes to one hour a day and seven to eight hours […]