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PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE -- SEN. Gregorio Honasan recently advised Sen. Panfilo Lacson to sub-mit himself to the rule of law amid20allegation that he is involved in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case in 2000.

“I can empathize with my classmate. My advice to him is to submit himself to the law. Let the evidence be presented. Let the prosecu-tion filed the necessary case. I guess probable cause has to be determined first,” he said, adding: ``Then, it must be guided by the principle of presumption of innocence. It is the courts that will deter-mine that.”

Honasan and Lacson were former classmates at the Philippine Military Academy, Batch 1971.

“Whatever the claims and counter claims are, we have courts of law where evidence will be presented. This will not be subjected to trial and conviction by publicity,” he said.

Two former senior police officials, Glen Dumlao and Cesar Mancao, who worked under Lacson when he was still National Police chief had reportedly linked him to the case.

Gringo asks Lacson to submit self to rule of law

Certain years are memorable than

most; and wartime years were quite

significant for a lot of people like Rosel Aquino Zobel, who in l941 received an 18-inch itak or bolo with a red-painted

sheath, as a birthday gift. It had a hard-wood handle with a blade that both

curves and widens, considerably so,

tapering at the tip. Although most kids got their itak in their

Have A Bolo Will Travel

teen years, Rosel’s father gave the itak to him at age 7. A lot of these knives were family heirlooms, passed down from generation to generation. The itak is sharp, versatile, and

resourceful just like the Filipino people. It can be the symbol of the Filipino struggle for survival, one writer commented Growing up,” says Rosel, “I knew a lot of kids had knives. The bolo was almost like a rite of passage into manhood.”

By Riz A. OadesSee page 6

SAN DIEGO, 4/10/09 -- During the week of March 9th 2009, something rare hap-pened in Washington DC. Fili-pino American leaders were at the bargaining table with the Obama Administration. Faith Bautista, President and CEO of Mabuhay Alliance, joined by Jose Pecho, District Chair of the National Federation of Filipino American Associa-tions (NaFFAA), met directly with four key Obama Admin-

Historic Filipino American Meeting with Obama Administration: Mabuhay Alliance Urges Radical Changes to Prevent Foreclosures and Encourage Filipino

American Small Business Development

istration leaders with responsi-bility to solve the foreclosure crisis and encourage small business development. These Filipino American leaders met with Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Ber-nanke, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, and the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee Barney Frank.

Faith Bautista informed each

NAFAREP District Chair Jose Pecho, Mabuhay Alliance’ Faith Bautista, Fed-eral Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and CA Assemblymember Ted Lieu 53rd District

Annie Cuevas, director of the Philippine Tourism Office in Los Angeles, makes a presentation on the forthcoming “Ambassadors’ Tour” sponsored by the Philippine Consulate.

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Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer Joe Nicolas of San Diego dostributing portable radio/flashlight/siren to Muslim children of Zamboanga City The combo radios, sandals, backpacks, and T-shirts were donated by mem-bers of the U.S. Forces stationed in that city.

A Rhode Island-based humanitarian group recently completed its 5th annual medical mis-sion in the Philippines. Called “Ling-kod Timog” that translates to “Serving the poor in the Southern Philipiines”, the group at-tended to more

Lingkod Timog US-Based Humanitarian Group Returns from

Medical Mission in Philippines

than 2,000 tribal patients in the Philippine island of Mindanao from February 19 to 23. The group provided medical, surgical and dental care to Badjao patients in Zamboanga, the southwest-ern tip of Mindanao Island in (Continued on page 10)

the Philippines. The Badjaos are seafaring tribal people who are even discriminated against by their fellow Mus-lims. They are coastal and sea dwellers, living on

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Msgr. Gutierrez EntertainmentEternity starts today

Miles BeauchampKatrina denies Kris

Isang supot ng lansones, isang supot ng mani

Maikling kuwento ni Percival Campoamor Cruz

Nakatutuwa ang minsan ay nangyari kay Yosi at sa tindero ng lansones na taga-Batangas. Pana-

hon noon ng lansones at naglipana sa Plaza Miranda ang mga tindahang-kariton na

ang tinda ay lansones. Ugali ng mga tindero na ilagay na sa supot

ang katumbas ng isang kilo ng lansones at itumpok ang mga

may lamang supot sa isang panig ng kariton. Sa

gayon ay mabilis ang bilihan -- kung may bumibili ang customer ay pupulutin na lamang ang supot at magbabayad. Di na kailangang piliin ang lansones, ipasok sa supot at ilagay ito sa timbangan. Ang mga gawaing ito ay nagawa na bago pa dumating ang

mamimili.

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By Thomas S. TananaSan Diego Pet Food

Home Deliveries The Lewis & Clark Expedi-

tion left St. Louis this week on May 14, 1804, which marked the 197th anniversary of the found-ing of Jamestown. John Philip Sousa for the first time pubicly performed “The Stars and Stripes Forever” that day in 1897. “Star Wars’” creator, George Lucas, was born that day in 1944 -- and our 64th Secretary of State, Mad-elein Albright, turned 7 one day after Lucas drew his first breath.

May is Freedom Shrine Month, where reproductions of 30 original historic documents are displayed at thousands of places across America to remind us that the freedoms we enjoy today were forged from ideal-ism, determination and sacrifice -- requiring our eternal vigilance to continually guard, protect, extend and expand them. You can visit www.nationalexchange-club.org for more information. Try to catch one of these exhibits on display here in San Diego County!

May also recognizes the 66 million Americans who are af-flicted with arthritis. You can learn allot about the more than 100 different forms of this dis-ease at www.arthritis.org. May is also National Egg Month. Not only are eggs nutritious, conve-nient, versatile and economical -- but they are particularly healthy for dogs because eggs are absolutely the most completely balanced and the best-fit protein for the canine dietary profile.

But the tastiest flavor of all for dogs is liver. Fresh liver -- not even filet mignon -- is their absolute favorite thing to eat. In fact, liver is guaranteed to set your dog’s taste buds on fire. So if you really want to treat your best buddy to his favorite biscuit, try liver-flavored snacks!

The first stewardess attended and served aboard a plane flight (on United Airlines) exactly

The Lewis & Clark Expeditionseven YEARS before Madeleine Albright’s date of birth and ny-lon stockings were first merchan-dised on Albright’s third birth-day. The first same-sex marriage was sanctioned May 17, 2004 in Massachusetts -- on the 121th anniversary of the founding of the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE wasn’t exactly a financial powerhouse in its infancy -- just two dozen local merchants met under a button-wood tree on then-suburban Wall Street, and they had to retreat to various local coffeehouses for cover during inclement weather.

Edward Jenner was born ex-actly 43 years before the found-ing of the NYSE. On May 14, 1796, just three days before his 47th birthday, Jenner discovered/invented the “smallpox vac-cine”. His vaccine consisted of a muted, tamed-down, version of “cowpox”. That’s why we get the name “vaccine” from the Latin word for “cow” -- “vac-cinia”. Dr. Gabriel Fahrenheit introduced the mercury ther-mometer exactly 107 years before Jenner made his own dis-covery/invention. Dr. Fahrenheit immodestly set the 100 degree standard for his thermometer at his own body temperature -- meaning the narcissitic fool had a 100 degree FEVER that day!

The odometer was invented May 12, 1847, on Florence Nightingale’s 27th birthday. And the inventor of the artificial heart, Robert Jarvik, celebrates the 63rd anniversary of his birth Monday, which also marks the 99th “birthday” for Montana’s Glacier National Park. They say not a single glacier will remain in the park for people to see 99 years from now.

It was also on May 11, 1862 that the Confederate army destroyed their own iron clad ship, the Merrimac, to prevent advancing Union troops from getting ahold of it. The Battle of Hamburger Hill was fought in Viet Nam exactly 107 years later. Named from the heavy casual-

ties, American forces eventually captured the hill. But after all that hard work and loss of life, they soon abandoned the mount -- which was then over-run and recaptured by the Viet Cong.

Louis Farrakhan drew his first breath that awful day of our “victory” at Hamburger Hill, but in 1933 -- and George Wallace was gunned down four days later, but in 1972. Agca attempted to assasinate Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981 -- on the 135th anniver-sary of the start of the Mexican-American War. Exactly four years after the attempt on the Pontiff’s life, Philadelphia police used the plastic explo-sive, C-4, to bomb a house. But their war-like military tactic ended up destroying 61 homes and killing 11 people.

This Saturday marks Armed Forces Day. It falls on the 104th anniversary of the birth of Jane Fonda’s dad, Henry. Among other roles, Henry Fonda starred as Admiral Chester Nimitz in “Tora, Tora, Tora” -- the epic about the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The real Chester Nimitz took command of the Pacific during World War II and was re-sponsible for the island-hopping

amphibious drive toward Japan. The main gate at Pearl Harbor is called Nimitz Gate, and he is the one after whom Nimitz Drive in Point Loma is named.

This year’s Armed Forces Day coincidentally also falls on the 34th anniversary of the first woman to ever scale the top of Mt. Everest. Coincidently, she

was a Japanese

national. Yogi Berra was born May 12, 1925. He once said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” He also once observed: “This is like deja vu all over again.” Carlsbad’s own skate-boarding champ, Tony Hawk, will turn 40 on Yogi Berra’s birthday this year. Dennis Rod-man turns 48 one day later and World Heavyweight champ, Joe Louis, turns 95 the same day.

Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard turns 53 on the 17th, marking the 55th

aniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that heralded the end of school segregation (Brown vs. Board of Education). And Indian rights were first rec-ognized by the Government on May 12, 1879.

Lyman Baum, author of the “Wizard of Oz”, entered this world on May 15, 1856 and the first woman publisher, Elizabeth Peabody, was born May 16,

1804. She published three of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s books -- because “her brother” couldn’t find any established publisher who was willing to take a chance on him! George Carlin, who beat back the tide of censorship with case law advances in First Amendment law,

was born May 12, 1937.Artist Salvador Dali was

born May 11, 1904 -- on Irving Berlin’s 16th birthdy. Singer Janet Jackson (1966) and actress Tori Spelling (1973) share May 16th birthdays. Debra Winger came into this world on May 17, 1955. And Britain’s King George VI was coronated May 12, 1937 after his older brother, King Edward VIII, abdi-cated the throne for “the woman I love”. That woman was Wally Simpson, whom he met here in San Diego at the Hotel del Coronado.

Katherine Hepburn (1907), Steve Winwood (1948) and Burt Bacharach (1929) were all born on May 12th too. Music com-poser, Arthur Sullivan (of the light opera-producing company, Gilbert & Sullivan), was born the NEXT day, but in 1842 -- and turned 108 on the day Stevie Wonder was born.

Late late night TV host Craig Ferguson (1962) and actor Den-nis Hopper (1936) share May 17th birthdays. The first Acad-emy Awards were handed out May 16, 1929 and Pierce Bros-nan (aka agent 007, James Bond) was born that day in 1953 -- on Liberace’s 34th birthday. Coun-try Western singer, Eddy Arnold (“Make the World go Away”), took his first breath one year and one day before Liberace.

When is YOUR birthday? Was a friend, work associate or relative born this week? If you would like the full unedited ver-sion of today’s column, we will happily send you an e-mail copy of the whole complete text! Of course, there is no charge. Just e-mail us at: [email protected].

Mr. Tanana makes San Diego’s own Home-Made and Natural Real Liver Snack Dog Treats. Yummy, healthy and fresh! No byproducts, preservatives or other chemicals.

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In Perspective

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“For you (God) cre-ated my inmost being; you knit

me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonder-fully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” ~Psalm 139:13-14

I found beauty in a cutaway diagram of the ear as I waited in an audiologist office. The idea of how the parts too small for the ordinary eye to see were laid bare with each detail forming an intricate design of marvelous imagination. I wondered, in the years I spent browsing through encyclo-pedias and health magazines, why I had not seen this at all. So much thought is put into the making of the body. And each one is an original.

Perhaps I was too driven by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to truly see and appreciate how magnificent the human body is built. And yet there it was for me to see in the twilight of time when hearing loss has began to affect an elderly fam-ily member.

The pair of hearing aids looked incongruous in the age of the iconic iPod. Here sound was toned down shutting out a lifestyle in which the ability of hearing all things digital on phones and personal devices was a distant universe away. It was here too that silence gave way to simple reflection mak-ing one realize how little one knows.

Wonderfully madeIn that moment of wonder,

what the image brought to mind was a psalm, Psalm 139:

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

A Psalm of David. Psalm139:

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

you discern my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue,

behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in, behind and before,

and lay your hand upon me.6 Such knowledge is too

wonderful for me;it is high; I cannot attain it.7 Where shall I go from your

Spirit?Or where shall I flee from

your presence?8 If I ascend to heaven, you

are there!If I make my bed in Sheol,

you are there!9 If I take the wings of the

morningand dwell in the uttermost

parts of the sea,10 even there your hand shall

lead me,and your right hand shall hold

me.11 If I say, “Surely the dark-

ness shall cover me,and the light about me be

night,”12 even the darkness is not

dark to you;the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with

you.13 For you formed my in-

ward parts;you knitted me together in

my mother’s womb.14 I praise you, for I am fear-

fully and wonderfully made. [1]

Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well.15 My frame was not hidden

from you,when I was being made in

secret,intricately woven in the

depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my un-

formed substance;in your book were written,

every one of them,the days that were formed for

me,when as yet there was none

of them.17 How precious to me are

your thoughts, O God!How vast is the sum of them!18 If I would count them,

they are more than the sand.I awake, and I am still with

you.19 Oh that you would slay

the wicked, O God!O men of blood, depart from

me!20 They speak against you

with malicious intent;your enemies take your name

in vain! [2]21 Do I not hate those who

hate you, O Lord?And do I not loathe those

who rise up against you?22 I hate them with complete

hatred;I count them my enemies.23 Search me, O God, and

know my heart!Try me and know my

thoughts! [3]24 And see if there be any

grievous way in me,and lead me in the way ever-

lasting! [4]

Novena Begins on Good FridayThe Feast of Divine Mercy is

celebrated the Sunday after Easter. It was instituted by Pope John Paul II at the canonization of St. Maria Faustina on April 30, 2000, and then officially decreed by the Vatican.

According to St. Faustina, who received the revelations about Divine Mercy from the Lord, souls who receive the sacraments of Confession and Com-munion on the feast day receive a com-plete remission of punishment for sins.

A nine-day novena which starts on Good Friday precedes the feast.

Feast of Divine Mercy

Divine Mercy Sunday can be seen as the convergence of all the mysteries and graces of Holy Week and Easter Week. It is like a multi-exposure photograph of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Week. Or we can think of it as a converging lens that fo-cuses the light of the Risen Christ into a radiant beam of merciful love and grace for the whole world.

In fact, Jesus revealed in various revelations to St. Faustina that it was His desire that we celebrate this special feast. “The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy.” (Diary, 699)

Our Lord revealed to St. Faustina His desire to literally flood us with His grac-es on that day. Just consider each of the promises and desires that He expressed about Mercy Sunday, which are recorded in the main passage of the Diary — pas-sage 699 — about Mercy Sunday:

“On that day the very depths of My • tender Mercy are open.”

“I pour out a whole ocean of graces • upon these souls who approach the Fount of My mercy [the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist].”

“The soul that will go to Confession • [beforehand] and receive Holy Commu-nion [on that day] shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.”

“On that day all the divine floodgates • through which grace flow are opened.”

“Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, • even though its sins be as scarlet.”

“The Feast of Mercy emerged from • My very depths of tenderness.”

“It is My desire that it be solemnly • celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter.”

The Divine Mercy Novena of Chap-lets

A novena is typically nine days of

Feast of Divine Mercy is April 18, 2009

prayer in preparation of a celebration of a feast day. At the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy Novena is recited perpetually at the Hour of Great Mercy — the three o’clock hour.

The Chaplet can be said anytime, but the Lord specifically asked that it be re-cited as a novena. He promised, “By this Novena (of Chaplets), I will grant every possible grace to souls.”

IntentionsFor each of the nine days, our Lord

gave Saint Faustina a different intention:All mankind, especially sinners; the

souls of priests and religious; all devout and faithful souls; those who do not

believe in God and those who do not yet know Jesus; the souls who have sepa-rated themselves from the Church; the meek and humble souls and the souls of little children; the souls who especially venerate and glorify His mercy; the souls detained in purgatory; and souls who have become lukewarm.

“I desire that during these nine days you bring souls to the fountain of My mercy, that they may draw therefrom strength and refreshment and whatever grace they have need of in the hardships of life, and especially at the hour of death.”

What You Can DoYou, too, can make a novena of prayer

for these intentions and others, especial-ly by praying the Chaplet of The Divine Mercy at 3:00 pm or by participating in the nine-day novena.

Source: The Marians of the Immacu-late Conception http://www.thedivine-mercy.org/


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Quiapo Memories

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by Simeon G. Silverio Jr.

Platerias Street in the Quiapo District, the downtown area of

Manila in the Philippines may just be a one-stretch road bounded by P. Paterno on the north and Carriedo Streets on the south. But it has evoked a lot of memo-ries for Eric to treasure. He lived there with his family from the time he was eight years old in 1955 until they moved to the suburbs of Quezon City when he was fifteen in 1962.

It was an unusual place for a young boy like him to live in, a commercial, not a residential area. They lived in an apartment on the second floor of his fa-ther’s printing business. Like the Chinese families in Chinatown, his father need not commute to go to work. He just had to go downstairs at any given time of the day, and even evenings, to attend to his business. This also meant that unlike kids living in the residential areas, they did not have much space to play in, especially during weekdays, when the place was always full of commercial activity. To fly his kite, Eric had to go on the

Platerias Street of his youth

A prostitution den was already operating on Platerias Street long before they came. Today, a lot of business

establishments in the area have closed after many years in operation, but the prostitutes still ply their

trade under the very noses of authorities, whose protection, they must have always enjoyed.

rooftop. During hot, summer days, his parents would send the kids to their province in Bulacan, for a month-long vacation in the house of their aunt. Though it may be an asphalt jungle, Quiapo provided them with a lot of perks that they could have not availed of in a typical residential community.

All he had to do to watch a movie was to walk, not com-mute, to a movie theater during the day, a convenient pastime he practiced. It was an advan-tage because in the absence of television and computer games, there were not much things for children like them to do. This he did every day when he was in the fourth grade, as he would be left alone in the house in the afternoon, His class schedule was in the morning while that of his siblings and his public school teacher mother were in the after-noon.

He would earn his movie money by working for an hour helping in the printing shop’s bindery work, and he could chose where to spend the rest of his day: at the Illusion Theater on P. Gomez Street, Society Theater on Echague, Everlast-ing Theater on Raon, or Metro Theater on Hildalgo Street. It

was like watching different chan-nels on television. These theaters presented double features, most of the times B movies, at half the price of first run movie theaters. When he had seen all the mov-ies for the week, he would walk towards the Hidalgo Street near Mapa High School where old Pilipino comic books were being rented out to students during their vacant periods. He had read all the exciting comic book characters of the day from the jungle hero called “Kulafu”, to the cartoon character “Kenkoy”, to the Filipino version of James Bond, “D.I. Trece”.

It was the 1950s, yet most of the comic books he read were printed in the 1930s and the 1940s, collectors items so to speak. It was quite exciting to read materials made years before he was born.

“We got these books all the way from Santa Rosa, Laguna,” he heard the owner boast to a customer one time. Santa Rosa, Laguna was a remote province then. Today, with the housing developments in the area and the South Super Highway, many of its residents commute to Manila everyday.

Before they moved to Quiapo, his father used to take him and his other siblings to the print-ing shop whenever they needed to buy clothes. His dad would ask his Tiyo Juling, one of his father’s half-brothers who worked in the press, to take them shopping. They would go to one of the printing shop’s customers sellings clothes on Palma Street where Eric and the rest, would get all the clothes they wanted. As the eldest in the brood, his father took care of his younger half-siblings, who like him be-came motherless at a young age. Three of them worked in their printing press and many young men from their province in Bula-can started their working career as inexperienced pressmen in his father’s shop. These provincial lads would bring produce from their farms after spending their Sundays in their homes in the province. The workers only had Sundays off, as the press was open from Monday to Saturday.

His Tiyo Juling later had a falling out with his father due to

a misunderstanding. They made up a year later and the incident turned out to be a blessing in dis-guise. Juling was forced to look for a job on his own and eventu-ally became a successful writer in the vernacular. Eric was proud of his uncle because he made it on sheer talent alone.

His Tiyo Juling and his father lost their mothers at a young age.. His Tiyo Juling grew up poor with his elder half-siblings taking care of him and his other brothers and sisters. He was barely educated but he was able to write Tagalog books like those featuring trivia on movie stars and other interesting facts. Unfortunately, he sold the rights for only 2,000 peso ($40) each to book publishers because he needed the money. The publish-ers profited a thousand times over from the books which are still being sold to this day.

During special occasions, the family would eat at the Wa Nam’s Chinese Restaurant on Evangelista Street. Eric still could remember the flashy and colorful neon sign, the first ones he had seen in his life. The restaurant served delicious fried chicken, camaron rebosado, pancit canton, lapu-lapu con sal-sa and chop suey dishes which they never failed to order. Eric still enjoys them today, but he could swear that they are not as delicious as those served at Wa Nam’s. The fried chicken alone was way much better than what the Kentucky Fried Chicken and other fine restaurants have to offer. It was juicy and delicious. Looking back, he suspects Wa Nam used native chickens, as the poultry farm raised commercial ones were not very common then. The sweet hot sauce tasted superior to the ones available today. So was the sauce of the Lapu Lapu. Sometimes, his mother would just buy the sauce at Wa Nam and fry her own Lapu Lapu fish at home.

When they moved there, Plat-erias was just a dirt road. A year later, gutters were built and the street was paved with asphalt.

A prostitution den was already operating on Platerias Street long before they came. Today, a lot of business establishments in the area have closed after

many years in operation, but the prostitutes still ply their trade under the very noses of authori-ties, whose protection, they must have always enjoyed.

On the corner of Platerias and P. Paterno Streets, there was an eatery owned by a Filipina lady called “Manang”. She was the common-law wife of a Chinese and they had four children who had become their childhood playmates. Manang’s eatery only served snack foods but it had at least three pinball machines on the side. Years later, the wife of Manang’s husband arrived from China and she lived harmonious-ly with Manang, her children and “their” husband. No harm, no foul, as they say. Manang’s son, Vic and her daughter, Hermie still live in Platerias, although their business had been reduced to a small sari-sari (variety) store.

Across the street, also on a corner, was Paradise Restaurant, also owned by a Chinese and his Filipina wife. They had a son, Pancho whose mouth was always drooling with saliva. He was a spoiled child who turned out to be gay when he grew up.

Eric still misses the bola-bola con salsa and the liver dish that Paradise Restaurant served. Workers at their printing press would buy their lunch there, all wrapped in banana leaves and paper which they ate on the mez-zanine floor of the printing shop during lunchtime. After lunch, the workers would turn off the lights and make use of the re-mainder of their one-hour lunch break taking a nap.

He liked to watch the workers eat their lunch because they had good appetite. His uncle, Tiyo Amang, would unwrap his baon, the wrapper made of banana leaves and piece of paper. One time, he had a huge pile of rice, and one piece of fried bangus. He watched him systematically finish his food, picking a small piece of the fish, putting it in his rice and making a ball out of them with his bare hand. He would then put it in his mouth, and chew the food to his heart’s content. When he was finished, there was hardly a piece of rice left in the banana leaves.

One time, Eric’s father’s nephew, Andong, brought rice



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The sorrowful face of JesusA Picasso, Gauguin or Van GoghDisplayed, I do not haveDisplayed is the Sorrowful FaceOf Jesus crowned with thornsA daily reminder of the ultimateSacrifi ce He made for mankindThat has grown callous through the yearsMany steeped in fun and pleasures onlyObsessed with power, fame and fortuneA tendency to depravity and debaucheryPampering the sensesNeglecting, forgetting or simply ignoringThe spiritualLuckily, unlike Sodom and GomorrahWhere no one was found worthyTo save the cityWe still have many faithful believersWho have faith in God and obeyHis Divine WillAllaying that holy fury that might sendAnother Great Flood, fi re and brimstonesThanks to the Sorrowful Face of Jesus alwaysReminding me to be a faithful believerAdoring, praising, loving a God that teachesPeace, faith, kindness, humility, charityLove for men including enemiesNot hate, criticism, vengeance, terrorism, violence.

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People with disa-bilities in this nation – and indeed in the

world – have many more problems than just simply the disability they are cop-ing with, however diffi cult life is with a disability.

About 54 million Americans live with a wide array of physi-cal, cognitive and emotional disabilities. Crime victims with disabilities and their families are even less likely to reap the benefi ts of the criminal justice

Women with DisabilitiesThe Facts: Disability and Crime

system.Sixty-eight percent to 83

percent of women with de-velopmental disabilities will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, which represents a 50 percent higher rate than the rest of the population. And in n many instances, crime victims with disabilities do not have physical access to services. And more than the physical access, they also may not have access to representation – either legal or emotional.

Attitudes

Attitudes toward the person with a disability are as impor-tant as or more so than physical accessibility. A crime may go unreported for many reasons: mobility or communication barriers, the social or physical isolation of the victim, a vic-tim’s normal feelings of shame and self-blame, ignorance of the justice system, or the perpetrator is a family member or primary caregiver.

Reporting agencies often fail to note that the victim had a disabil-ity, especially if someone other than the victim reports the crime. Sometimes that may be the error of the reporter, and at other times it may be that the disability – es-pecially if it is mental – may not be recognized.

Assumptions and prejudice about the reliability of the testi-mony of victims with disabilities can deny them access to justice in the courts. How often will a jury believe someone’s testimo-ny when that person has a mental disability?

Here are some simple ques-tions: Have you ever brushed off a disabled individual? Have you ever walked by a disabled individual without making eye contact? Do you tend to give less credence to words spoken by someone who is hard to under-stand because of a disability? Many Americans do.

The vulnerable

Many people with disabling conditions are especially vulner-able to victimization because of their real or perceived inability to fi ght or to fl ee, notify others and/or testify about the victim-ization. The person committing the crime simply sees that person as helpless. And there are pris-ons fi lled with men and women who commit crimes against the helpless.

Additionally, the victimiza-tion may make even worse existing health or mental health problems. This may make it even more diffi cult to seek help, or make it more diffi cult to be helped if it is sought.

Many offenders are motivated

by a desire to obtain control over the victim and measure their po-tential prey for vulnerabilities.

People with disa-bilities are also vulnerable to abuse by the very professionals and other caregivers who provide them with services. Approximately 48 percent of the perpetrators of sexual abuse against people with disabilities had gained access to their victims through disability services.

Victimization

It is not just individuals with developmental disabilities who suffer very high rates of victim-ization. A study of psychiatric inpatients found that 81 percent had been physically or sexually assaulted.

The Colorado Department of Health estimates that upward of 85 percent of women with dis-abilities are victims of domestic abuse; in comparison with, on average, 25 to 50 percent of the general population. Why the greater amount? Because of their inability to fi ght back? Is it because of the inability of the abusing spouse to take the dis-ability into consideration in the relationship itself?

A crime victim with a disability or a person who becomes dis-abled due to crime may not have the resources or the physical stamina to cope with the many delays and hurdles that typically occur in the criminal justice sys-tem. First they suffer the crime, and then they have to suffer the problems with the system.

Generally, individuals with disabilities are far more likely to suffer greater problems than even their disability conveys upon them. In other words, the disabilities are far greater than are ever apparent. And the problems keep growing, money becomes ever scarcer to help the individuals, and society too often looks the other direction.

This coming May I’ll be travel-ing to Honolulu, HI, to present a paper at the Pacifi c Rim Confer-ence on Disabilities, presented by the Center on Disability Stud-ies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. My paper deals with how disabled individuals of any

race and gender have been pre-sented in American literature.

Sure, there have been many great works which show disabled individuals as they are; and there have been far too many works that show them to be a helpless, powerless, weak, vile, horrifi c (take your pick there) woman or man.

This is not to point fi ngers at authors as much as it is to point fi ngers at all of us – and none of us. Finger-pointing isn’t neces-sary – just a bit of understanding.

All statistics, unless otherwise noted, are from: U.S. Depart-ment of Justice, Offi ce for Vic-tims of Crime Bulletin.


Growing up in Lum-ban, Rosel Aquino Zobel never could

have dreamed that as an adult he would be a dis-tinguished university pro-fessor, an award-winning journalist and founder of a model nonprofi t organiza-tion.

World War II left many unforget-table experiences to Rosel, whose memories seem to fade as time passed. This series is a heartfelt story that dares to look at the re-alities of the war, highlighting the values, preoccupations, attitudes, and behaviors that shaped his per-sona and world view.

Unique Birthday Gift

Certain years are memorable than most; and wartime years were quite signifi cant for a lot of people like Rosel Aquino Zobel, who in l941 received an 18-inch itak or bolo with a red-painted sheath, as a birthday gift. It had a hardwood handle with a blade that both

Re-enactment photo: Duel of bolo-wielding fi ghters.

Moral Courage6th of a Series

WORLD WAR II WEAVES STORIES OF SURVIVAL:

Have A Bolo Will TravelMuch to the surprise of the Japanese, most Filipi-

nos remained loyal to the United States. But under Japanese pressure, the Philippine Government did accept the principle of collaboration and even de-clared war on the United States. -- Ray C. Hunt & B. Norling, Behind Japanese Lines (1967).

curves and widens, considerably so, tapering at the tip.

The all-purpose knife is used for all sorts of odd jobs, such as breaking open coconuts, cutting tall grass, slaughtering pigs, dig-ging out roots and weeding, and harvesting rice. It is also used as a combat weapon with historical signifi cance.

Like his peers in Lumban, Rosel could already climb up and down

the coconut tree like a monkey. During the war, boys in Lumban helped their families’ food supply by bringing in coconuts either from wawa or Sierra Madre coconut plantations.

Although most kids got their itak in their teen years, Rosel’s father gave the itak to him at age 7. A lot of these knives were fam-ily heirlooms, passed down from generation to generation. The itak is sharp, versatile, and resource-ful just like the Filipino people. It can be the symbol of the Filipino struggle for survival, one writer commented

“Growing up,” says Rosel, “I knew a lot of kids had knives. The bolo was almost like a rite of pas-sage into manhood.”

“But owing to wartime condi-tion,” my Tatay gave it to me much sooner. Besides, I asked for an itak, partly because I felt I was so left out when hearing my older friends’ conversations about the knives they received; and I wanted to be able to relate to them.”

For Lumban boys, the bolo is a necessity, both as a tool and

weapon. In peacetime, men and children were wearing a bolo on their waist. The bolo is notoriously used in combat in Lumban.

“As boy,” says Rosel, “I have heard about Tagaan [duel of death fi ghting], which means patayan sa pamamagitan ng itak between two individuals, whose arms are tied together, freeing one arm each to hold a matched bolo and fi ght each

Suspected guerrilla to be behead-ed by a Japanese offi cer.

Heads cut by Japanese samurai swords.

other to the death. Such combat is based on a pretext of defense of honor or a matter of challenge to redress a perceived insult to one’s honor.

Bolos also developed as military weapon and as such they were a particular favorite of the Filipino anti-colonial resistance during the 1898 Philippine Revolution against Spain, the Philippine-American War, and the Commonwealth pe-riod.

The bolo was fi rst used as farm-ing implement, subsequently devel-oping to a combat weapon because it had been readily available to the common person in colonial times. For this reason the study of the bolo has become common in Filipino martial arts, such as Balintawak, Pekiti-tirisia kali and modern Arnis.

The slang term “to bolo” emerged in the US military, which means having failed “… a text, exam or evaluation. It is said to have originated from the Philip-pine-American forces during World War II. When Filipino guerrillas failed to demonstrate profi ciency in marksmanship, they were issued bolos instead of fi rearms so as not to waste scarce ammunition.

One incident that possibly saved the lives of Rosel and his sister was an incident at the foot of Sierra Madre Mountain Ranges, when the two De la Cruz brothers ganged

up on them. The confrontation developed on an earlier fi st fi ght between Rosel and De la Cruz’s younger brother Berto.

Berto was a town bully, who consistently intimidates other kids, including Rosel, in both school playground and the neighbor-hood. Bigger in size and stronger, almost every kid was afraid of him, until he squeezed Rosel’s bayag (testicles). Reacting involuntarily, Rosel retaliated with a right hook to Berto’s jaw knocking him to the ground, landing his head on a big stone that rendered him uncon-scious for almost 30 minutes.

People in the neighborhood became concerned about the damned bully. They also feared the repercussions of this incident on Rosel’s personal safety as the De la Cruz brothers were notorious as basag-ulero (trouble-makers) and matatapang (brave). For a few months nothing expected happened until that day when Rosel and Avelina came down from Sierra Madre Mountain Ranges with their

coconut harvests.Seated under the mango tree the

two brothers menacingly stopped them and asked Rosel to explain what actually happened. Sensing danger, Rosel took his bolo out, pulling his sister behind him ready to mix it out, and explained it was not his fault..

“You guys should know,” Rosel nervously cried out, “If you hurt us, it’s not a good idea because this will only lead us to more hurt or ubusan ng pamilya. We have more than enough relatives to come down on your family members. You may succeed in what you plan to do with us, but I will defi nitely

hurt one of you very badly. So let the two of us pass, and leave us alone.”

“In time of danger,” recalls Rosel, “I have learned how to be prudent, fi rm and courageous to avoid or evade a fi ght. And when there is no other way to get out of a situation, the only option is to fi ght to survive. That is a concept that Lumban instilled in me growing up: that is, not to be afraid. Brav-ery is in the mind. Shall we call it moral courage?”

“And the saddest part of my boyhood,” Rosel sighed with a deep breath, “was when one of the retreating Japanese soldiers confi s-cated the itak my father gave me. It took days, perhaps weeks, for me to get over it.”

Tatay, Avelina and Rosel were caught in the rural areas of Santa Maria while Japanese troops retreated to northern Luzon via Pasig, Rizal in l944. By then, the Allied Forces had landed in Lingayen, Pangasinan to liberate Luzon..

The Guerrilla War

By the end of June 1942, orga-nized resistance in the Philippines had come to an end.But as the Japanese soon found out, this did not bring the end of all resistance. Thousands of Filipino and American soldiers -- some acting individually, some with the encouragement of their command-ers -- formed guerrilla units of varying sizes.

On Luzon, which held the bulk of the Japanese army in the Philip-pines, guerrillas were restricted to

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The housing boom in the past few years created fi nancial abun-dance to some people who in-vested in the real estate market. Many Filipinos got into action either as new investors or Real Estate agents. Some were lucky to join the band wagon early and made lots of money fl ipping real estate properties. It was not hard to convince others that they too can create wealth in a short pe-riod of time. A large number of Filipinos quit their regular jobs to get in the real estate business. Even a few older employees who are close to retirement tapped their home equities to become investors and speculators.

It might have been risky but those smart decisions made some people good returns on their in-vestments. Life was so good and making lots of money seemed easy. Then greed took over and they wanted more money. Some neighbors became green with envy that they also joined in the frenzy. More Filipinos were moving constantly to these newly built

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Los Angeles came to San Diego last Thursday, March 27, 2009 to promote the tour. The presenta-tion held at the Villa Manila in National City and attended by various Filipino Americans in San Diego spelled out the details of the program.

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Meeting the president of the Philippines is also a great experi-

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I therefore encourage every-

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We adopted our nephew in the Philippines in our sincere desire to provide him a better future here in the United States. The adoption petition went on smoothly and was quickly granted by the Philip-pine court last year. The decision says that it is retroactive to the time we filed our petition in 2006. We then filed a petition to get an immigrant visa for our adopted son, but the USCIS sent us a letter asking for proof that we have at least two years of physical custody over him. We are having prob-lems complying with the USCIS directive because we did not actu-ally have custody of our nephew. We do not have any documents to show that we lived together with our adopted son. In fact, we just go on short vacations in the Philippines for three weeks at the most. Our adopted son is actu-ally the child of my sister whom I petitioned way back in 1988. He is now 12 years old. When I checked the visa bulletin, I saw that that the NVC is now process-ing sister-to-sister petitions filed in June 2006. This makes me think that we should just wait for my sister’s petition to become current and then she can bring my nephew with her as her derivative benefi-ciary. Attorney, please advise me on what to do.

Aimee

Dear Aimee,

We are sorry to hear about your case. Apparently, you did not consult a competent immigra-tion attorney before you filed the adoption petition for your nephew in the Philippines. Your attorney filed the adoption petition without familiarizing himself with the adoption requirements of U.S. im-

Botched Adoptionmigration law.

As we previously wrote in this column (Adoption : The Two-Year Rule, 12/05/2008, please go to www.asianjournalusa.com to read the article), you must have two years of legal custody and also two years of physical custody of the child you seek to adopt. You have already complied with the two-year legal custody require-ment since the adoption decree was made retroactive to 2006. The physical custody requirement means that you must have lived to-gether with the child and exercise exclusive custody over him for two years. This may be continu-ous or broken, and may be before or after the adoption decree. The problem with most cases, as in yours, is that the petitioner resides in the United States while the child is staying in the Philippines. The USCIS is quite strict about this criterion and requires the peti-tioner to present convincing proofs such as the child’s school, medi-cal, insurance and other records, as well as evidence that the peti-tioner stayed in the Philippines for at least two years to be with the child. In your case, your travel re-cords (such as the stamps in your passport plus the USCIS database) will readily show your failure to comply with this requirement. As you admitted, you just stayed for three weeks in the Philippines and, obviously, those short periods of stay were not for the purpose of having custody of your nephew, so even if they all add up to more than two years, you still will not be able to satisfy the requirement. The only way you can comply is to reside in the Philippines for two years and live with your adopted son there.

Going now to your second ques-tion, yes, we believe it is better for your nephew to just come here as a derivative beneficiary of your

sister (his mother). After all, at the rate the P-4 petitions are being processed, your sister’s priority date will become current in two years, at which time your nephew will still be under 21. One may ask, can your nephew still be your sister’s derivative beneficiary, considering that you have already adopted him? We believe so. We have checked the provisions of both Philippine and United States laws and found nothing that disqualifies an adopted child from continuing to be the derivative beneficiary of his natural parent’s immigrant petition. Philippine law is obviously silent on the matter. On the other hand, U.S. immigra-tion law disqualifies the natural parents and siblings from receiv-ing immigration benefits from the adopted child, but the law is silent if the adopted child can receive immigration benefits from his natural parents. Without such cat-egorical disqualification, coupled with the fact that the adoption did not comply with the require-ments of U.S. immigration laws for which no immigration benefit was derived by him, we believe that your nephew continues to be the derivative beneficiary of your sister.

We hope that we have clearly answered your questions. Thank you for writing.

Sincerely,

Atty. Karagdag

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Medical Mission in Philippinesstilt houses or on their boats,

and make their meager liveli-hood from fishing. Because of lack of potable water, they are often unwashed and have very poor sanitation. Rhode Islanders Cecilia and Armando Heredia led the medical mission. An-drew Wilner, a neurologist from Newport, Rhode Island joined the group for the third straight


Loading boat with medicine and supplies, Sangali Pier.

Volunteers – US and Philippine-based, Philippines and US military - with Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat

Doctors at work, Taluksangay

Patients in line, Sangali

Pharmacy, Taluksangay

Dental station, Taluksangay

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ment of care providers, security personnel, residents and patients. Half of our group went back by boat and the other half walked back almost two miles through hills to reach the staging area for the ride back. We then took in about 1,000 patients in Taluk-sangay, also in Zamboanga. The treatment area was in a small school house next to a new and beautiful mosque. It was very

fulfilling.” Cecilia is the music teacher of St Philomena School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She raises funds for Faithful Companions of Jesus projects that help trash dump residents in Manila, Philippines through Broadway musicals with the

help of many parents of the school.

Lingkod Timog spokes-person Arman-do Heredia, the former Na-tional Execu-tive Director of NAFFAA, the Wash-ington, DC-based national organization of Filipino Amer-

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surgical, or dental teams plus the pharmacy was assigned a Badjao one-room house on stilts for the day. The houses were connected by rickety one-meter wide walkways which made for very gingerly foot traffic move-

when Philippine Marines Major General Juancho Sabban was studying in Newport’s US Naval War College and the Heredia’s were his local sponsor. Cecilia Heredia, CIM formed the group and Executive Director Irene

Covarrubias Sabban coordinates the activi-ties from Zamboanga. The mission involves the entire community – Zamboanga private and government agencies, Philippines and US military, Christian and Muslim doctors. The Badjaos will see not just the US and Manila-based volunteers, but

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Does she maintain communication with Dingdong? “We talk naman kasi we’re still business associates. But hanggang doon na lang muna.”


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Huwag MatakotBiglang dumagundong ng malakas at ako’y natakotkumot kong makapal agad sa ulo ko’y isinaklobmatatalim na kidlat ang siyang naghari’t bumalotsa tahimik na gabing kami ay handa nang matulog.

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Joke of the Week: An old legend relates that a group of the apostles

gathered right after the Resurrection, and St. Peter was not there. Meeting St. Peter afterward, one of the apostles told him, “Hey, Peter, we have some good news and some bad news.” “What’s the good news?” St. Peter asked. “The Lord is risen. We actually saw Him. He even ate a piece of fish to prove it was re-ally He. “And what’s the bad news?” demanded the Prince of the Apostles. “He wants to talk to you about

Easter

Eternity starts todaylast Friday.”

Scriptures: First Reading: Acts of the Apostles: 10: 34, 37-43. St. Peter’s message is a sign of continuing proclamation of the following themes: 1) the mission of Jesus ending in his death on a “tree” was rejected by Israel; 2) God vindicated Jesus to put to shame those who rejected him; 3) the apostles were witnesses of Jesus’ ministry and of the events after his resurrection; 4) the proclamation shifts from Jerusa-lem to the ends of the earth.

Second Reading: 1 Corinthi-ans 5: 6-8. It is ritually required that Jewish household should be cleansed of crumbs from leav-ened bread in preparation for the Passover. Using the same imag-ery, St. Paul urged his readers to clean themselves of any malice

and wickedness so that they can truly celebrate the new Passover with Christ as the new Unleav-ened Bread.

Gospel: John 20: 1-9. In John’s Gospel, light and darkness play a significant role. In the beginning of his Gospel, John stated, “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” Mary Magdalene and the apostles’ discovery of the empty tomb “on the first day of the week while it was still dark” is parallel to the Genesis creation account when darkness covered the abyss and on the first day of the week God said, “Let there be light.” The Gospel shows also that the diverse responses to the Resurrection event vividly mani-fest that a person’s response to the light of faith should take into consideration his readiness to it. Different people react differently to the Resurrection account in John’s Gospel. Many of Jesus’ followers took some time before they fully understood the scrip-tural prophecies about his death and resurrection. A few, like the Beloved Disciple, saw what had happened and believed.

Reflections: During the early years of Christianity, the faithful, reflecting primarily on the cruci-fixion and resurrection of Jesus, had no major feast to celebrate, except Easter. Then as Chris-tians continued reflecting on the earlier life of the Risen Christ, events surrounding the Savior’s public ministry began to develop and gradually also those of his birth. The early Christians under-stood the profound importance of Christ’s resurrection because as St. Paul wrote, “And if Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching; empty too is your faith.”

Because Easter is a time to celebrate the new life and the risen life, most of the symbol-isms and images of this season portray a new birth, a new begin-ning, and springtime. “Eastre” for the ancient Europeans is the goddess of spring and rebirth. During this season of new life, the ancient worshippers of Eastre believed that her pet bird would lay eggs in baskets and hide them in unknown places. Later on, the goddess would transform her pet bird into an egg-laying

rabbit. Eggs for nineteenth-century Germany were important fixture of the Easter celebra-tion. Since eggs and meat were not eaten during the season of Lent, eggs symbolized the end of fasting and abstinence, the ar-rival of spring, and the festivity of Easter. However, “pysanky” or colored Easter eggs carry different symbolisms for the Ukrainians. According to an old Ukrainian legend, a poor peddler was on his way to the market to sell his basket of eggs, when he met a crowd reviling a pitiful man carrying a cross on which he was about to be crucified. The peddler, moved with pity, left his basket and helped the man carry his cross. When he returned to retrieve his basket, he found out to his surprise that the eggs were transformed with wonder-ful designs of bright colors. The man was Jesus, the peddler was Simon the Cyrenean, and the eggs symbolized resurrection.

Forever starts today. By his death and resurrection, Jesus has opened the door to eternal life when there would no more tears, no sadness and pain. “The words of the Eater Sequence marvelously express the mystery accomplished in Christ’s Pass-over,” according to John Paul II. “They point to the power of renewal flowing from his Res-urrection. The eternal Son … has conquered evil at its roots by opening to contrite hearts the path to eternal return to the Father.” Easter is the promise of an eternal happiness for those who turn away from sin. Easter is hope for those who believe in the resurrection. This promise of everlasting bliss does not occur in the future, because forever starts today. Easter’s gift to us is “forever” that starts now.

The interviewer asked Joseph of Arimathea, “Now the grave you lent is yours again. What are you planning to do with it?” Joseph confided, “When I heard that He had risen, naturally I raced to the tomb. He was not there. I placed a comfortable bench under the trees just op-posite the opening to the tomb. I go and sit there and I think to myself, ‘Jesus of Nazareth has slept in this tomb and God raised Him from death. Joseph of Arimathea will also lie in the tomb, and what God will do with him?’ Jesus has said, ‘I live and you shall live.’ I can depend on that word.”

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Lacson, meanwhile, said he had been “the 20 subject of unrelenting vilification” by the Arroyo adminis-tration.

“I have been persecuted no end and all sorts of lies have been thrown my way. All of these have been proven false, including alleged money laundering, illegal drugs, kidnapping, and even being gay. Ang pinakahuli nga ay itong pilit akong idinadawit sa Dacer-Corbito case,” he said.

Lacson said no amount of lies or black propaganda will stop him from fighting corruption in govern-ment.

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co-hosted by the Filipino American community to discuss the absence of minorities within the entertain-ment industry and the need to end racial and ethnic stereotyping. The national NAACP, the nation’s most prominent African American civil rights organization, informed Mabu-

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hay Alliance at a DC meeting that it would join in this effort to end racial stereotyping. The FCC is likely to request that all Hollywood and TV network CEOs attend.

Faith Bautista, President and CEO of Mabuhay Alliance, who helped arranged the DC government meet-ings stated, “Desperate House-wives demonstrated to four million Filipino Americans that unless we are united and outspoken, we will continue to be attacked. Mabuhay Alliance and NaFFAA are proud to be part of a growing and long await-ed united Filipino American effort to expand our influence and ensure that never again will the Filipino American community be negatively stereotyped or unfairly attacked.

Our successful DC meetings with key Obama Administration leaders demonstrated our growing influence and unity. We are optimistic that our efforts regarding averting to end the foreclosure crisis, expand small business opportunities and create more minority job opportunities will help expand the economic, social and political rights of our commu-nity. We are particularly optimistic because we have growing support for these efforts from the Pan Asian, the Latino and the African American communities. [Due to the efforts of Mabuhay Alliance, the Filipino American community now has ef-fective working relationships with the CEOs of more than two dozen Fortune 500 corporations includ-ing, Sempra, AT&T, Verizon, BofA, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase.] We will be meeting with the CEOs of US Bancorp and AT&T early next month in Los Angeles on further empowering the Filipino American community.”

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SAN DIEGO - Beginning March 27, two California condor chicks hatched over the past few days and a third chick was begin-ning to emerge Wednesday at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park. The fourth chick to hatch will be the 150th California condor produced since the Wild Animal Park began breeding this critically endangered species 27 years ago.

At least seven chicks are expected to hatch in the next few of months. The first egg laid by a condor pair at the Park is artificially incubated. Condor keepers serve as foster parents using a condor puppet to raise the chicks. The parents then lay a second egg and raise that chick themselves.

This process has led to a very successful breeding and release program. The California condor was near extinction in the 1980s when the world population of this species hit a low of 22 individuals. All of the birds were placed into a breeding program that included the Wild Animal Park. Thanks to a multi-agency effort, today the condor popu-lation includes more than 320 birds; more than half of them have been released back into the California, Arizona and Mexico wilderness.

A new zip-line experience at the Park, Flightline, opens in April with one-third of profits directly benefiting the San Diego

San Diego Condor breeding program to reach milestone; First chicks of 2009 season

hatch at the Wild Animal ParkZoo’s work saving the Califor-nia condor. Flightline will take guests on a ride for 2/3 of a mile at 400 feet above Asian and Af-rican animal exhibits, allowing adventurers to mimic the experi-ence of a bird in flight.

The California Condor Re-covery Program is built upon a foundation of private and public partnerships. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service implements the recovery program in partnership with other U.S. and Mexican government agencies, the San Diego Zoo, Los Angeles Zoo, The Peregrine Fund, Oregon Zoo, Chapultepec Zoo, Santa Barbara Zoo, Ventana Wilder-ness Society, among others.

The 1,800-acre San Diego Zoos Wild Animal Park is oper-ated by the not-for-profit San Diego Zoo and includes a 900-acre native species reserve. The San Diego Zoo focuses on the conservation of endangered spe-cies and their habitats, engages in conservation and research work around the globe, educates millions of individuals a year about wildlife, and maintains ac-credited horticultural, animal, li-brary and photo collections. The Zoo also manages the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research. The important conser-vation and science work of these entities is supported in part by The Foundation of the Zoologi-cal Society of San Diego.

SAN DIEGO - On April 25, 2009, the San Diego Shake-speare Society will host its 4th annual Student Shakespeare Fes-tival in Balboa Park. Over 200 students from more than 30 San

Diego county-wide schools will participate in this colorful event. The festival will entertain at-tendees and passersby alike with 10-minute scenes from various Shakespeare plays on five stages along the Prado.

The students, ranging from el-ementary to high school, perform either in the traditional Renais-sance style, create a modern interpretation or create a col-lage featuring dance, vocal and/or instrumental music, or other creative concepts. Mike Auer, the Executive Director of the Student Festival said, “Students work with professional directors and their teachers for 6 weeks prior to the event to perfect their skills. They showcase their tal-ent for fun or awards to be given at the closing ceremonies. This program is offered county-wide and does not charge schools for this extended arts education.”

Marvin Spira, Festival Chair-man, states, “Our goal for this annual event is to bring the literary works of William Shakespeare to life for students, teachers, and the community through study, production, and live performance. The Festival is the culmination of a year-long educational program that in-

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cludes classroom workshops and teacher training. In engaging students in the study, production and performance of works by William Shakespeare, we enable them to celebrate the universal-ity of his plays, the power of his language, and the relevance of his ideas today.”

Beginning at 12:30pm, at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, the event commences with a proces-sion, in which the actors march in traditional costume to the per-formance area along The Prado. It concludes with the awards and closing ceremonies at 3:30pm.

The San Diego Shakespeare Society is a non-profit organiza-tion dedicated to making Shake-speare available to everyone.

To participate or for more information, visit www.sandi-egoshakespearesociety.org or contact Sandi Buehner 619-462-1059 [email protected].

SAN DIEGO, CA — The Fili-pino Chamber of Commerce of San Diego County and The Filipino Press will host the Third Annual Filipino Chamber of Commerce (FACC) Golf Tournament on Sun-day, April 19, at the Chula Vista Golf Course in Bonita. Tee time is 7:30 a.m. with a scramble play-off.

“This is a wonderful way for our community to get together and enjoy a fun day of golf at a beauti-ful course to win some fabulous prizes,” said Susan delos Santos, FACC president and publisher of The Filipino Press.

The chamber is accepting players and sponsors for the event, which features a Hole-In-One Prize of $15,000 or a two-year lease or a 2009 Ford Mustang convertible. Other prizes include a $500 gift

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basket for first place, a $300 gift basket for second place, and $200 gift basket for third place. Entry fee for the tournament is $95 per person and includes greens fees, breakfast and lunch.

Major sponsors of the event include Camden Sierra at Otay Ranch, Ecoquest International, Inc., San Diego Central & Real Estate Mortgage, Coca-Cola Bot-tling Corp., Sycuan Casino, Bagwis Cargo, Axa — Angelo Vargas of Valley View Casino, Digital Pro (Vince Bumanglag), Nobel Premi-ums, Gapo Resto & Karaoke, US Bank, COPAO, ANAKAM and others.

Following the golf tournament, same day,there will be an Awards Luncheon and Business Mixer at the Banquet Hall of the Chula Vista

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The tragedy of the Titanic on the evening of April 12, 1912 has passed from history into legend. It tells the primal tale of man challenging nature and losing. Supposedly unsinkable, it went down on her maiden voyage. Volumes of books and reels of fi lms have recounted its story, with the blockbuster 1997 movie

The Titanic’s Disaster Fascinates Us Even Today

“Titanic” the most famous and profi table of all, especially after garnering several Academy awards.

For ninety-seven years we have been fascinated with the Ti-tanic’s history. The magnifi cent ship’s tragic end affects us even today. Scores of facts, legends and myths have surfaced through

the years attesting to our endur-ing fascination with the “ship of dreams” maiden voyage that im-mediately turned into a glaring catastrophe.

What is it that fascinates us about this doomed ocean liner? Is it the unthinkable tragedy and the possibility that such tragedy could have been avoided? Or is it the sheer arrogance and unbe-lief of some people who think that they are better than God?

The Titanic

When the Titanic embarked on her maiden voyage, the world was fi lled with hope and awe. The largest and most luxurious ship ever built, the Titanic was owned by the White Star Line and built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. All who could afford the trip, and even those who barely could, wanted to take part in its history-making maiden voyage from Europe to America.

What caught everyone’s at-

tention was the common belief that the Titanic was unsinkable, because its owners and builders billed it as such. Her construc-tion was reputed to have been the best of the best. In fact, when one of the crew members was asked at the start of the voyage if the Titanic was truly unsinkable, the crewman replied, “God him-self could not sink this ship!”

The Titanic had everything go-ing for her. The ship’s captain, Edward J. Smith, was said to be one of the most experienced and respected men at sea. The Titanic was equipped with the most ad-vanced technological features of her day. Money was not spared to give it opulence! In fact, she was so magnifi cent it was like a fl oating palace. The Liner’s Managing Director made it a point to join her on her maiden voyage, and so did some of the wealthiest people of the Western world.

Also on board were some poor Europeans who wanted to come to America to build a new life. But it was not to be. Things expected have a way of turning wrong!

What went wrong? A series of errors and omis-

sions compounded to create a gi-gantic catastrophe! The mighty ship ignored increasing signs of danger as it speeded through the night to her rendezvous with disaster.

Early in the afternoon of that April day, radio messages about iceberg fl oating in the area were received from other ships. But the ship’s captain saw no need to slow down. At 10:00 in the evening, another ship, the Californian, frantically warned the Titanic of more icebergs. But the radio operators, busy sending wires from the rich and famous aboard to their friends on land, sharply told the Californian not to interrupt.

Then at 10:40 p.m. tragedy struck! A faint shudder was felt aboard the ship and a strange sound was heard. One survivor described the sound like that of a giant fi ngernail scraping the side of the ship. What happened was that the Titanic had collided with a giant iceberg!

The mountain of ice had cre-ated a 300-foot gash, a mortal wound on the side of the ship. And to add insult to injury, this magnifi cent fl oating palace had only twenty lifeboats. Not enough for the 3,000 passengers and crew! The builders and the owners were so confi dent of the ship’s indestructibility that they considered additional lifeboats

unnecessary.Soon the ship began to tilt.

There were no bells, no siren, and no general alarm to warn the passengers of their impend-ing doom. The stewards simply knocked from cabin to cabin, politely asking passengers to don their life jackets and go up on deck. At fi rst the passengers thought it was all a joke. They responded with amusement and disbelief.

Minutes ticked away as the women and the children boarded the few lifeboats. Some wives chose to stay with their husbands aboard the sinking ship. Some men were lucky to get into the lifeboats. At precisely 1:30 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after the ship collided with the iceberg, the mighty Titanic went down into the blackness of the deep! Only 705 of the 3,000 survived.

Life is like the Titanic What happened to the ship can

also happen in life – if we don’t heed the signs of danger! In some ways, our life, and society in general, is like the Titanic: technologically advanced, opu-lent and arrogant.

So advanced, that we have at our fi ngertips nuclear and biological weapons of destruc-tion that could effectively wipe out civilization in the blink of an eye. So opulent, that we revel on

what we have, rather than what we are. And so arrogant, that we think we can get away with al-most any despicable act without facing the consequences.

In effect, we are proclaiming to the world that: “God himself could not sink this ship!”

History will tell us that no society or nation is unsinkable! When a society or a nation is so embroiled in evil and im-morality, arrogance and unbelief – tragedy is not far off. This generation – with its power and its technology, its opulence and immorality, its lawlessness and its pride – is now going the way of the Titanic. Unless we change our course! Unless we adhere to the moral and natural laws of our God!

There is a Supreme Being that governs us all. But sad to say, we do not listen. We turn deaf ears to the signs of impending doom – and like the Titanic – we rush headlong into disaster!

Look around you. It is happening now!

Seeing that all things will come to pass, and they will, the questions we should ask our-selves are these: Are we going to heed the warning signals and adjust our course? Are we going to listen to the voice of reason and do the right thing? Or are we going to let our arrogance and unbelief sink us into obliv-ion?

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., (April 7, 2009) – Western Union (NYSE:WU) in conjunction with Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), the largest Filipino community based organization in Los Angeles, designed the EACH ONE TEACH ONE program to recognize Filipino afterschool teachers who go above and beyond to inspire and encourage progress within the community.

This program was created as part of Western Union’s global yes! campaign – the fi rst-ever global brand initiative for Western Union that creates an emotional connec-tion with consumers worldwide. This campaign shines a spotlight on people who embrace their hopes and dreams and who say yes! to the world and their community.

The EACH ONE TEACH ONE program identifi ed Filipino teachers

Filipino Teachers are saying yes! to the community

Western Union & SIPA present the EACH ONE TEACH ONE Program to honor Filipino afterschool teachers in Los Angeles

who say yes! in three different cat-egories; Academics, Arts & Culture and Athletics.

As a special education teacher • for the Los Angeles Unifi ed School District (LAUSD) and a tutor with SIPA, Amado M. Ponce de Leon III, the Academic honoree, says yes! to the community. He fi rst got involved with SIPA eight years ago as a way of not only getting in touch with his culture, but also to give back to the community, lending his expertise in Math and English to the afterschool program. “I appreciate that I am able to educate kids and help oth-ers in a time where other teachers are getting laid off due to the bad economy,” says Ponce de Leon III.

Barbara Jane Ele, the Arts & • Culture honoree, says yes! to the community as a 2nd grade LAUSD elementary school teacher and a Filipino culture teacher at SIPA through the Kultural Enrichment Language Program (KELP). “On my days off and during summer vacation I miss all my students,” Ele says. The heartwarming teacher, who also teaches dance through SIPA, is a lead choreographer for Kayamanan Ng Lahi Folks Arts in the community.

With twin brothers you get double • the yes! Emmanuel and Eristheo Raif, the Athletics honorees, are former SIPA youth clients and have been team coaches and program assistant coordinators for the annual Temple Gateway Youth & Sports League for the past three years. They currently are furthering their education at Los Angeles City Col-lege and continue to help with SIPA afterschool athletic activities.

In celebration of their honorable achievements and to help build the SIPA Afterschool Enrichment Program, Western Union presented a grant of $10,000 on behalf of these honorees to SIPA.

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There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. “Is there any-thing breakable in here?” asked the postal clerk.

“Only the Ten Commandments. “ answered the lady.

***

“Somebody has said there are only two kinds of people in the world.

There are those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, Lord,” and there are those who wake up in the morn-ing and say, “Good Lord, it’s morning!”

***

A minister parked his car in a no-parking zone in a large city because he

was short of time and couldn’t find a space with a meter. Then he put a note under the windshield wiper that read: “I have circled the block 10 times. If I don’t park

Some Christian humorhere, I’ll miss my appointment. Forgive us our trespasses.”

When he returned, he found a citation from a police officer along with this note “I’ve circled this block for 10 years. If I don’t give you a ticket I’ll lose my job. Lead us not into temptation.”

***

There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and an-nounced to his congregation: “I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it’s still out there in your pockets.”

***

A Sunday School teacher began her lesson with a question, “Boys and girls, what do we know about God?” A hand shot up in the air. “He is an artist!”said the kinder-garten boy.

“Really? How do you know?” the teacher asked.

“You know - Our Father, who does art in Heaven... “

***

A minister waited in line to have his car filled with gas just before a long holiday weekend. The attendant worked quickly, but there were many cars ahead of him. Finally, the attendant mo-tioned him toward a vacant pump. “Reverend,” said the young man, “I’m so sorry about the delay. It seems as if everyone waits until the last minute to get ready for a long trip.” The minister chuckled, “I know what you mean. It’s the same in my business.”

***

People want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention.

***

A father was approached by his small son who told him proudly, “I know what the Bible means!”

His father smiled and replied, “What do you mean, you ‘know’ what the Bible means?”

The son replied, “I do know!”“Okay,” said his father. “What

does the Bible mean?”“That’s easy, Daddy.” the young

boy replied excitedly,“It stands for ‘Basic Information

Before Leaving Earth’.”

***

Sunday after church, a Mom asked her very young daughter what the lesson was about. The daughter answered, “Don’t be scared, you’ll get your quilt.”

Needless to say, the Mom was perplexed. Later in the day, the pastor stopped by for tea and the Mom asked him what that morn-ing’s Sunday school lesson was about. He said “Be not afraid, thy comforter is coming.”

***

VATICAN HUMOR

After getting all of Pope Bene-dict’s luggage loaded into the limo, (and he doesn’t travel light), the driver notices the Pope is still standing on the curb.

“Excuse me,Your Holiness,” says the driver, “Would you please take your seat so we can leave?”

“Well, to tell you the truth,” says the Pope, “they never let me drive at the Vatican when I was a cardinal, and I’d really like to drive today.”

“I’m sorry, Your Holiness, but I cannot let you do that. I’d lose my job! What if something should happen?” protests the driver,wishing he’d never gone to work that morning.

“Who’s going to tell?” says the Pope with a smile.

Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back as the Pope climbs in

behind the wheel.The driver quickly regrets his

decision when, after exiting the airport, the Pontiff floors it, ac-celerating the limo to 205 kph. (Remember,the Pope is German!)

“Please slow down, Your Holi-ness!” pleads the worried driver, but the Pope keeps the pedal to the metal until they hear sirens.

“Oh, dear God, I’m going to lose my license--and my job!” moans the driver.

The Pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the cop approaches, but the cop takes one look at him, goes back to his motorcycle,and gets on the radio.

“I need to talk to the Chief,” he says to the dispatcher.

The Chief gets on the radio and the cop tells him that he’s stopped a limo going 205 kph.

“So bust him,” says the Chief.“I don’t think we want to do

that, he’s really important,” said the cop.

The Chief exclaimed,” All the more reason!”

“No, I mean really important,” said the cop with a bit of persis-tence.

The Chief then asked, “Who do you have there,the mayor?”

Cop:”Bigger. “Chief: “A senator?”Cop:”Bigger. “Chief: “The Prime Minister?”Cop:”Bigger. “Well,” said the Chief, “Who is

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***

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Rosel saw American POWs who were incarcerated in Cine Lumban. Out of curiosity, he observed them walk or bath under the sun outside of the prison camp.

“We kids threw stones at them,” relates Rosel, “partly to show to the Japanese sentries that we hated Americans. Little did these bastards know that we mixed some kamote (sweet potatoes) with the rocks and stones that we threw at them, at the same time shout-ing, ‘banzai, banzai!’ The guards seemed to have been amused with the spectacle.

“I personally witnessed those cold eyes of a few POWs glim-mered with an inaudible whisper, as if saying to us: “Thank you kids, we appreciate the food, just don’t throw the stones at us too hard,” Rosel nodding said..

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Col. Glicerio Moya, led attacks on the Japanese troops and inflicted considerable damage in casualties and captured weapons form the enemy.

Reynoso, the legendary USAFFE corporal and triggerman, killed many Japanese in the ranks of the Japanese troops and also Filipino pro-Jap Makapilis. There other Lumbenos who distinguished themselves in the underground resistance movement that included the likes of Captain Bruno G. Ablao of the Hunters-ROTC guerillas; Bataan veteran and Death March survivor Estanis-lao R. Llames of the Bonn Military Corps, Anderson’s guerillas; and Lt. Danding Baretto, also of the Fil-American Irregular Troops.

Rosel’s father was supposedly a Marking Guerrillas’ supply officer, but unfortunately was secretive about his affiliation and support to the underground movement. As mentioned before, it was extremely dangerous to live a life under such wartime conditions. The war rivalry between various resistance groups and leaders were rife and deadly in Lumban. “In fact,” comments Rosel, “I have some relatives who died in the hands of fellow guerrillas, and it was sad.”

The first and one of the boldest raids ever conducted by gueril-las was the attempt to spring 115 American POWs who were quar-tered in Cine Lumban, a rickety converted into a movie house. The Japanese utilized the Ameri-can prisoners, mostly engineer and pilots, as a labor force in the construction of a wooden bridge to replace the dynamited steel bridge that previously spanned the Lum-ban River.*

On June 11, l942, under cover of darkness, a band of courageous fighters assisted by guerrillas from Lumban and led by Col. Marcos Villa Agustin, the famed Col. Markings himself, of Straughn’s FAIT jumped on the unsuspecting Japanese guards keeping watch on the movie house.

With firm determination and commando fashion, the raiders bludgeoned and slashed to death

ten Japanese sentries and broke into the dingy Cine Lumban.*.

The mission could have been easily accomplished, had the POWS consented to escape; but they stubbornly refused to go with the guerillas. “No amount of coaxing and prodding could make the Americans take a chance with their Filipino liberators. Only one, George Lightman, gambled and made a run for it. He fought later with the guerillas in the mountains and lived to tell about his flight to freedom.*

Japan troop of eighty soldiers searched the town house-to-house looking into every nook and corner for traces of the guerrilla raiders. The activity almost cost the lives of Ong Sen Dio, a Chinese sari-sari storeowner and Juan Bague, a bar-ber, who both lived near the scene of guerilla attack. Together with Mayor Moises T. Paraiso and Chief of Police Gaudencio ll. Añonuevo, they were picked up and held as suspects for having knowledge of the June 11th raid.

Japanese Kempetai subjected Mayor Paraiso to rigid, long inves-tigation; and was flogged, hog-tied and left for hours under the sun. Failing to obtain the information about the raid, the Japanese com-mander, Captain Fujita, had the Mayor and Chief of Police brought before a firing squad. Luckily for the two Lumbenos, they were not shot. They were taken to the spot only to witness the death by firing squad of ten able-bodied American POWs as the price for the escape of George Lightman the night before.

The town mayor found out later that, before the June 11th raid, one POW had already escaped and that the Japanese officer had warned the Americans that any similar act would be penalized by killing ten POWs for every escapee. He also learned that the Japanese had divided American POWs in Cine Lumban into groups of eleven each. If one got away, the remain-ing ten would be shot. True to the warning, the ten American POWs were shot and killed before the

unbelieving eyes of Mayor Paraiso and Police Chief Añonuevo.

The Japanese then buried their fallen bodies in the slope behind the Central school building. Typi-cal of Lumban men, Mayor Paraiso suffered the Japanese abuses and never squealed on the raid. He survived the ordeal, along with his equally spirited Chief of Police.*

In August 1943, the Japanese troops zoned Lumban, simultane-ously with Pagsanjan. The adult men folk were herded into the Lumban church and were incarcer-ated for three days and four nights. During the “zona” the Japanese tried to flush out the guerillas that have caused them no little trouble in ambuscades and other forms of harassment.

To attain their objective, the Japa-nese would bring the Filipinos in with sacks over their heads and eye holes, and whoever they pointed at, they would indicate that either they were guerrillas or supporting the guerrillas. Most of these Japanese collaborators were local Makapilis or members of the New Philippine Constabulary.

The Japanese military sent a big contingent of Filipinos to Japan, put them through military school, brought them back to Luzon and put them in a Philippine Constabu-lary. “And we had more trouble with the Philippine Constabulary than we had with the Japanese,” re-ported Leon Beck in an interview.

“They were a real thorn in the side because you couldn’t distin-guish them from the clothing they wore or their appearance, and if they saw you, they’d report you. The next thing you know, there’s a Japanese raid on that barrio,” he said. “As one would imagine, participation in the resistance movement carried with it a severe penalty, for soldiers and civilians alike.”

In Lumban, the Japanese rounded out veritable suspects like USAFFE veterans, municipal of-ficials and barrio lieutenants. From these persons the Japanese Kem-petai squeezed out information that may be lead to the capture of guer-rilla leaders and their men. Besides the water cure, they applied the painful flogging, skin-searing and nail pulling methods that led to the capture and death of many guerilla chieftains.

The others who tried to escape got killed in the attempt. Several men died of shock and diseases as a result of the “zona” and another one that followed months later. All these did not discourage the re-maining guerillas to continue their underground resistance. They later resumed their operations with dam-aging although sporadic skirmishes with the enemy.

To natives of Lumban, a knock on the door in the middle of the night usually portends bad news during the war. This happened to several families, whose members might have either collaborated with the enemy or belong to rival guer-rilla units.

Rosel’s family got a knock on the door deep in the night of April l944 from a group of four local Hunters-

ROTC guerrillas. “Our family was, of course, nervously disturbed with such unexpected visit; and feared for the life of our father. My mother trembled with fear and we kid started to cry, hugging our fa-ther’s legs, only to learn that these guerrillas just wanted to borrow our pick-and-shovel equipment.

The night after gossips spread like wildfire around town that the guerrillas had again buried alive a suspected collaborator at the near-by banana grove; and the surviv-ing family members were forcibly enjoined to leave town lest they might reap future reprisals. Also every so often, bloated corpses of suspected Makapilis were fished out of the Lumban River, usually credited to local guerrilla night riders.

Such pattern of “elimination” (or salvage) continued on to the end of the war that came in March 1945 as the American fighter planes and bombers made mincemeat of the last vestiges of Japanese Imperial forces in Lumban. Japanese troops, in their pocket resistance against the American Liberation Army, retreated to the mountains. U.S. planes and tanks routed them in brief engagements.

At that time, the highest ranking Japanese officer in Lumban, Major Yamaguchi, lived with Don Se-gundo Samonte’s nice house across Rosel’s grandpa’s. Yamaguchi had succeeded in marrying the pretty Cecilia Samonte, a daughter of Segundo, a town dentist and former municipal president (1929-1931).

Cely, as friends fondly called her, “would wield the unseen hand in providing safety and protection for

their families and for their own be-half.” Little did all of these persons know that Cely saved thousands of her town mates by allowing them to evacuate first before her persuaded husband fulfilled the Japanese High Order of setting Lumban afire as retaliation against local guerrilla activities. Fortu-nately, only half of the town was razed by fire.

The real story of Cely’s redeem-ing act only came out in early1945 when in desperation, the Japanese planned the burning of Lumban. Cely became aware of this and she exerted her wide influence on Yamaguchi, who gave in to the wife’s plea.

Only after the townspeople had left did the Japanese commander give the orders that the town be put to the torch. Today, Cely is no longer despised, but lives a life with dignity and honor befitting a true Filipina. And Lumban rose from the ruins of war by sheer resolve and hard work. Its coura-geous people were bent on rebuild-ing and development of their ravaged town. – Riz

(To be continued)_______________

*Most of the information about guerrilla activities in Lumban were adapted from History of Lumban and a testimony furnished by the town Chief of Police G. Anonuevo to a Military Commission convened by General Douglas McArthur, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Forces in the Western Pa-cific, on January 9, 1946.


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The City of San Diego (City) is requesting proposals from highly qualified construction management firms for consultant services for Construction Management Services for the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant - Grit Processing Improvement Project (H094759).

It is the policy of the City to provide equal opportunity in its construction management professional services contracts. Toward this end, proposals from small businesses, disabled owned businesses, women owned busi-nesses, firms owned by African-Americans, American Indians, Asian-Americans, Filipinos, and Latinos, and local firms are strongly encouraged. Prime consultants are encouraged to subconsult or joint venture with these firms. The City endeavors to do business with firms sharing the City’s commitment to equal opportunity and will not do business with any firm that discriminates on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition or place of birth. This project has a voluntary Subcontracting Participa-tion Level (SPL) goal of 15%. SPL goals are achieved by contracting with any combination of Minority Business Enterprises (MBE), Women Business Enterprises (WBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) or Other Business Enterprises (OBE) at the prime or subcontractor level. Definitions of MBE, WBE, DBE, DVBE and OBE are contained in the Request for Proposals (RFP). Attainment of the SPL goal is strongly encouraged, but strictly voluntary.

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Ang Quiapo ay pusod ng Maynila na di natutulog. Dito naghahalo ang mga madasalin, sapagka’t ito ang tahanan ng Santo Nazareno; at ang mga ma-pagsamantala na ang hanapbuhay ay pagnakawan ang balana. Di magkamayaw ang dating at alis

Isang supot ng lansones, isang supot ng mani

Peanut in shell

Lansones

Quiapo Church

ng mga tao at ng mga sasakyan, ano mang oras ng araw o gabi, sapagka’t dito rin nagtatagpo ang mayayaman at mahihirap na kapuwa ay naghahanap ng bagay-bagay na mabibili nang mura sa mga baratilyo sa bangketa.

Noon ay may isang sinto-sinto na itinuring na tahanan niya ang Plaza Miranda sa Quiapo. Labing-walong taong gulang, ang kanyang isip ay katumbas ng sa pitong taong gulang na bata. Maagang naulila sa ina, ang nagpalaki at nag-aruga sa kanya ay ang lola, na ang bahay ay isang kariton na nakaparada sa likuran ng palengke sa Echague, isang dipa ang layo sa ilog Pasig.

Jose ang ngalan niya, at Yosi ang bansag ng mga nakakikilala at kapuwa homeless niya sa magu-long distrito na ito ng Maynila. Ang walang tahanan na katulad ni Yosi ay nabubuhay sa araw-araw sa pagpapala ng mga di kilalang tao na napapadpad sa Quiapo. Ang ilan sa kanila ay napapadaan lamang, tungo sa mga sakayan ng bus. Ang marami ay naroroon upang magtingin-tingin sa mga murang paninda na mabibili. At higit na marami naman ang naro-roon upang pumasok sa simbahan, mag-alay ng dasal at kandila sa Mahal na Santo Nazareno, ang Tagapagligtas ng mga mahihirap at may suliranin sa buhay.

Si Yosi ay mahilig magsi-garilyo, kung kaya’t binansagan siyang, Yosi. Nguni’t hindi siya bumibili ng sigarilyo kahi’t kailan, sapagka’t walang pera ito at trabaho na panustos sa sigari-lyo. Nakapagsisigarilyo siya sa pamamagitan ng paghingi sa mga kasama at pagpulot sa mga beha na itinatapon sa lupa ng ibang tao.

Kung sa pagkain naman ay na-kararaos si Yosi sa pamamagitan din ng hingi at pagdukot-dukot ng kakanin sa mga bilao ng mga tindera. Sa gabi, ang mahiligang sulok ng bangketa ay nagiging mistulang higaan ni Yosi, matapos maglatag ng napupulot na karton at plastic na nagsisilbing sapin at kumot.

Nakatutuwa ang minsan ay nangyari kay Yosi at sa tindero ng lansones na taga-Batangas.

Panahon noon ng lansones at naglipana sa Plaza Miranda ang mga tindahang-kariton na ang tinda ay lansones. Ugali ng mga tindero na ilagay na sa supot ang katumbas ng isang kilo ng lansones at itumpok ang mga may lamang supot sa isang panig ng kariton. Sa gayon ay mabilis ang bilihan -- kung may bumibili ang customer ay pupulutin na lamang

ang supot at magbabayad. Di na kailangang piliin ang lansones, ipasok sa supot at ilagay ito sa timbangan. Ang mga gawaing ito ay nagawa na bago pa dumating ang mamimili.

Nguni’t panaka-naka ay may mamimili na makulit. Hindi ito kakagat sa lansones na nasa supot na at natimbang na. Ito ay magnanais na siya ang pipili sa bungkos ng lansones, isa-isa; pipisil-pisilin at aamoy-amuyin ang bawa’t bungkos, bago ilala-gay ito sa supot. Kung walang langgam na lumalakad sa ibabaw ng mga lansones ay di bibili ito at pupunta sa ibang tindahan na ang lansones ay nilalanggam. Ang langgam ang nagpapatunay na ang prutas ay matamis. Ibig din nito na siya ang titimbang sa napil-ing lansones upang makatiyak na ang timbang ay tama sa kilo. At bago magbayad ay pupulot pa ito ng isang dakot na lansones bilang dagdag.

Nang araw na yaon ay may problema sa tiyan si Yosi. Ibig niyang madumi, nguni’t wala siyang mapuntahang palikuran. Itinataboy na siya sa palikuran sa simbahan at maging iyong nasa mga restaurant; marahil ay nagsawa na ang mga may-ari ng palikuran sa pagbibigay sa kanya gayong hindi naman siya cus-tomer at hindi rin siya marunong gumamit ng palikuran..

Dahil sa matinding tawag ng pangangailangan, ang ginawa ni Yosi ay lumapit sa isa sa mga tindahan sa kariton na nagtitinda ng lansones at di nagpahalata na kumupit ng isang supot na pang-dalawang kilo ang sukat, at ito’y ikinubli sa kanyang kili-kili. Naghanap ng isang sulok na tago at doon sa supot ay nagparaos sa kanyang sakit ng tiyan.

Makikitang dala-dala ni Yosi ang isang supot na tila ang laman ay dalawang kilo ng lansones. Maayos ang pagkakatupi niya sa supot at talagang tila ito ay may lamang prutas. At dahil sa itong si Yosi ay sinto-sinto nga, sa halip na ang supot ay ihulog sa basura-han, ito ay inilapag niya sa isang tindahang-kariton ng lansones ha-bang ang tindero ay hindi nakat-

ingin. Sa makatuwid ay naging mistulang paninda ang dumi ni Yosi at napasama ito sa hanay ng mga lansones na nakasupot na at naghihintay ng bibili.

Dumating itong customer na laging bumibili ng lansones sa tuwing Biyernes na siya ay nagsisimba sa Quiapo. May edad na babae ang customer na ito na manang na manang ang dat-ing – nakasuot ng damit na kulay lila na gaya ng kulay ng suot ng Nazareno, at may kung anu-anong estampita na nakasabit sa kan-yang leeg. Sa tingin ay isa siyang malumanay, mabait at napakama-dasaling tao.

Lumapit ang babae sa kariton, sinipat ang nakahanay na mga supot ng lansones at pinili ang pinakamalaki. Pinulot niya ito at inilagay sa timbangan.

-- “Husto ba ang timbang nito, mama?” -- tanong sa tinderong Batangueno.

-- “Opo, m’am, dalawang kilo po iyan,” sagot ng tindero. --

-- “Matamis ba?” -- pangala-wang tanong ng customer.

-- “Syempre naman, ma’am, piling-pili po ang mga lansones ko.” --

Kulang sa dalawang kilo ang laman ng supot, napag-alaman ng customer, ayon sa timbangan, kung kaya’t inalis ng customer ang supot mula sa timbangan, binuksan ang supot na hindi tinitingnan ito, at nagbalak na magdagdag pa ng lansones upang maghusto ang timbang sa dala-wang kilo. Wala pa ring tingin-tingin ay ipinasok ng customer ang kanyang kanang kamay sa loob ng supot, na ang balak ay kapain ang mga lansones. Sa halip na ang mahipo ay lansones, naramdaman ng customer na ang hinihipo niya na laman ng supot ay bagay na malambot, madulas at basa-basa. Humiyaw ang custom-er, -- “Ano ba ito?” -- at sinilip ang laman ng supot, na ang sigaw pa ay, -- “Hay, naku, tae!” --

Nagitla ang tindero at bago makapagsalita ito ay naramdaman niyang bumagsak sa kanyang kanang pisngi ang isang mainit at masaganang sampal mula sa kamay na mabaho ng galit na galit na customer, na nagsabi pa ng “P_ _ _ _ _ ina mo ka!.”

Kinabukasan, habang nakiki-pagkuwentuhana ang tindero sa kapuwa tindero, ay nasabi ng nakatikim ng sampal -- “ Ala , e, dito pala sa Quiapo -- pag hindi husto ang timbang ng tae e maka-titikim ka ng mura at sampal!”

Noong mga panahon na yaon ay sumibol din sa Quiapo ang mga tindero at tindera ng mga bila-bilaong mani. Sa mga bangketa ay di magkamayaw ang mga bilao ng mani na ang bawa’t bilao ay iba ang pagkakaluto dito. May mani na pinirito, malutong at may asin. May mani na pula, iyong naba-balutan pa ng balok, at iyong mani na puti na nahubad na ang balok; mayroon ding mani na inihaw na buo pa ang balat at mayroon ding maning may balat pa na nilaga sa kumukulong tubig.

Hari ng mga magmamani si Tano, isang apat na pung taong gulang na mestisong Intsik na ang negosyo ay mag-imbak ng mani, galing sa mga bukirin sa probin-sya, at ipagbili ito sa mga naglu-luto at naglalako nito.

Si Jesse naman, halos ay kaedad ni Tano, ay isa sa mga nagbabag-sak ng mani sa bodega ni Tano. Kinatawan siya ng isang korpora-syon sa Makati na nagtatanim ng mani sa Palawan . Bulto-bultong sako ng mani ang ibinabagsak ni Jesse sa tuwing may ipinapadada-lang ani ang mga nasa bukid. Ang transakyon ng dalawa ay nagkaka-halaga ng libo-libong piso buwan-buwan.

Kailangan ni Tano si Jesse at dahil marunong siyang magpa-halaga sa gawain nito ay palaging may balato siya para sa kanyang supplier. Sa dulo ng kanilang pakikipag-usap ay may iniaabot na supot ng hilaw na mani si Tano kay Jesse, kasama ang bulong na --“Heto ang dalawang kilong mani; tiyakin mo na makaaabot kay Trining, (asawa ni Jesse),” --

Pagdating sa bahay ay ib-inubuhos ni Jesse ang laman ng supot at sa gitna ng mga mani ay may bungkos ng tag-iisang daang pisong salapi na nahuhulog – re-galo ito ni Tano o pabuya sa pag-papanatili ng magandang hanap-

buhay sa mani na namamagitan sa kanilang dalawa.

Magara ang auto ni Jesse. Mal-imit na may suot na bagong polo shirt, kung di man bagong sapatos o relo. Malinaw na nakaririwasa sa buhay si Jesse. Malimit din na siya ay kumakain sa restau-rant, habang ang mga kasamahan sa trabaho ay sa office lamang kumakain ng pagkaing tira galing sa bahay.

Makailang ulit na isinasama sa lakad ni Jesse, hinggil sa pagba-bagsak ng mani sa Quiapo, ang bagong graduate na si Dado. Ito ang naging utos ng amo ni Jesse, na magsanay ng isang assistant na pagdating ng araw ay papalit sa kanya.

Bagong graduate si Dado at ang pagtitinda ng mani ay malayo sa kanyang pinapanagarap na karera. Nag-aral ng economics si Dado sa Ateneo, at ang kanyang pangarap ay maging isang isang tanyag na bangkero o di kaya ay ekonomista sa gobyerno. Nguni’t ang pagig-ing alalay ni Jesse ay ayos din sa kanya; sa isip ni Dado, tutal ito naman ay pang-unang hakbang lamang patungo sa katuparan ng kanyang tunay na pangarap.

Matalino at matalas ang pag-uunawa ni Dado sa kahulugan ng mga kilos ng mga tao at ng mga nakikita niya sa kanyang kapali-giran. Bukod pa rito ay masasa-bing idealistic si Dado, gaya ng maraming bagong graduate. Ang prinsipyo, sa kanila, ay higit na mahalaga kaysa sa salapi. Ang pa-giging tapat sa trabaho at malinis sa pakikitungo sa mga kausap sa hanapbuhay ay isang matigas na panunutunan na hindi mababali.

Sa isang kagyat ay napansin na niya kaagad ang hilig sa luho ni Jesse, na di maaring pairalin kung suweldo sa opisina lamang ang panggagalingan ng kita. May hinuha kaagad si Dado na si Jesse ay may ginagawang kaba-balaghan, kung kaya’t nagkaka-roon ito ng salapi na panustos sa kanyang mga luho.

Sa tuwing maghahatid ng mani sa bodega ni Tano ay kabuntot ni Jesse si Dado. Ipinaliliwanag naman ni Jesse sa batang assistant ang sunod-sunod na hakbangin na dapat ay matupad, mula sa simula hanggang sa dulo, upang ang tran-saksyon sa mani ay maisakatu-paran nang maayos. Mabuting

estudyante si Dado, kung kaya’t mabilis niyang natutuhan ang kalakaran sa negosyo ng mani. Umabot ang pag-aaral hanggang sa punto na kung may mangyayari kay Jesse ay maipagpapatuloy na ni Dado ang gawain ni Jesse na walang pangambang siya ay magkakamali o ang korporasyon ay malulugi hinggil sa hanapbu-hay sa mani.

Hindi lingid sa kaalaman ni Dado ang tungkol sa supot ng mani na sa tuwing bago maghi-hiwalay sina Tano at Jesse ay tinatanggap nitong huli bilang regalo. Malalim na pinag-isipan ni Dado na ang nakikitang pag-aabutan ng supot ng mani ay di pangkaraniwan. Bakit bibigyan ng mani si Jesse, samantalang siya ang pinagmumulan ng mani? Bakit ito ibinibigay kay Jesse na nakasupot na at ginagawa ang paglalagay sa supot sa paraang walang nakakikita? Patago? Bakit si Jesse lamang ang binibigyan ng mani, samantalang naroon din siya sa eksena at kasa-kasama ni Jesse sa tuwing may paghahatid ng mani? Napaghinuha ni Dado

na ang mani ay suhol o naglala-man ng suhol ang supot ng mani!. Nguni’t, pansamantala, ay walang balak na magsumbong o gumawa ng ano mang hakbang si Dado.

Lumipas ang ilan pang buwan, nagkaroon ng stroke si Jesse at naging baldado siya. Si Dado ang naging kapalit sa trabahao. At kung si Tano ang naging hari ng mga magmamani sa Quiapo, ang korporasyon naman ni Dado ang naging pinakamalaking tagapaghatid ng mani galing sa pataniman; at si Dado ang naging mistulang prinsipe na maaaring bumuhay o pumatay sa hanapbu-hay ni Tano at ng korporasyon.

Dumating ang panahon ng pag-subok. Isang araw, nang matapos na ang lahat ng gawain tungkol sa paghahatid ng mani sa bodega ni Tano; nang araw na iyon ay isang trak ng mani na nakabalot sa bulto-bultong sako ang naging transaksyon ni Tano at ni Dado, na ang naging halaga ay umabot sa P150,000.00! Tuwang-tuwa si Tano na nagpatuloy ang pagka-

karoon niya ng mani na mataas ang uri na maipagbibili niya sa mga naglalako ng mani sa Quiapo at siya ay tutubo ng malaking halaga, kahi’t wala na si Jesse. Tiyak na malaki ang kanyang kikitahin, sa tuwing may delivery si Dado. Bago umalis si Dado noong araw na iyon ay nagpasala-mat nang labis si Tano at iniabot sa nakababatang bagong partner ang supot ng mani.

-- “Ito ay para sa iyo, Dado.” --Alam ni Dado na ang nangyari

ay mangyayari at mahirap na ito ay maiwasan. Tinaggap niya ang supot sapagka’t kung tatanggihan niya ito ay baka ikasama ng loob ni Tano. Bukod doon ay kung tatanggihan niya ang supot ay di niya malalaman kung totoo ang hinuha niya na ang supot ay may lamang salapi.

Dahil tinanggap niya ay aakalain ni Tano na siya ay katulad din ni Jesse na mabibili sa suhol ang prinsipyo.

Tila walang pakiramdam at wala sa isip na tinaggap ni Dado ang supot. Salo ito sa palad na tila munting kayamanan nang mag-

simulang maglakad ito patungo sa sasakyan ng bus.

Nang naroon na siya sa kala-gitnaan ng Plaza Miranda, ay may taong biglang sumulpot sa kanyang kanan, isang binati-lyo; hinablot ng di kilalang tao ang supot mula sa kanyang mga kamay, bago tila sibat na tumakbo patungo sa kakapalan ng tao. Walang nagawa si Dado kundi ang mamangha sa bilis ng mga pangyayari. Sinundan niya ng tingin ang umagaw sa supot; ito’y lumiko sa isang kanto at tuluyang nawala na parang bula.

Nang gabing iyon ay may pasa-lubong na mani si Yosi sa kanyang naghihintay na lola, na sa buong araw ay inaasam-asam ang lasa ng pagkain, kung sakaling mayroong pagkaing darating. Nang gabi ring iyon, kung papalarin, ay mag-kakapera ang matandang babae na magagamit niya sa pagpapatingin sa doktor sa darating na bukas.

(Wakas)

Asian Journal Apr 10 2009

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