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Image Source: Wikipedia We all want financial stability in our family. We all wish for a stable job, stable income, and enough savings to secure our family’s future. But not all people are fortunate enough to invite financial stability in their lives. In fact, there are millions and millions of individuals who are already exhausting their credit limits of their credit cards, taking cash advances from one credit card to make monthly payments on another, getting calls from collection agents about delinquent accounts, and drawing on their savings to cover daily expenses. If you are in any of these situations you know where you are heading. Financial experts have identified many reasons why people fall in to these situations. Common causes of such are:   -Spending beyond your means.   -Poor management of money and poor financial objectives.   -Resorting to loans for every financial dilemma.   -Compulsive behavior like addiction to vices, drug...

Lack of job opportunity, peace and order issues, corruption in government, limited social services, etc. are the main motivators why millions of Pinoys leave the country in order to seek better opportunities. Though, majority of Pinoys abroad are working as domestic helpers and other blue collar jobs, there are also a growing number of those working in the medical scene such as nurse, caregivers, medical technologist. In the IT industry, there are programmers or system designers. For the maritime industry are the seamen. Also in the list are the entertainers and casino dealers who make full use of their brains, hearts and hands to deliver their jobs. These Pinoys working outside the country, often referred to as OFW or Overseas Filipino Workers, are keeping the country’s economy afloat due to their hefty remittances. Our OFWs are favorites among foreign employers because of their quality of work and their hard-working nature. The domestics and laborers are the country...

Image Source: Wikipedia         I know every Filipinos here and abroad have already read the discriminative post of Chip Tsao entitled "The War At Home". It is so sad that Pinoys are once again belittled by other nationals especially by fellow Asians. Millions of Pinoy parents are spe nding thousands or even millions of peso just to send their children to school. Some of them even sold their most prized properties just to s end their children to college. They have sacrificed so much for their children's sake of earning a college degree. But at the end of the day, after more than four years of school work, of years spent studying English, Physics, Algebra, Biology, Computer and other academic subjects, most of them will just end up working as maids or domestic helpers in Hong Kong or UK. Sad, but their dollar earnings are more than enough to pave away their degrading plight abroad. They would rather set asi de their "pride" and "reputa...

Image Source: Wikipedia William Jackson Smart, a single dad and a Civil War veteran, was the inspiration behind "Fathers Day". His wife died in 1898 while giving birth to their sixth child. He worked hard to raise his children by himself. It was said that in May 1909, one of Smart's daughter named Sonora Dodd - who was already married and a mother that time, heard a church sermon enumerating the virtues of motherhood. The sermon was in line with Mothers Day, a newly established American holiday during that period. Since Sonora's mother died young and it was his father who really took care of her and her siblings, she lobbied for the establishment of a similar holiday dedicated for fathers. It was in 1972 when the Father's Day was recognized as an annual US holiday. We were made to think that majority of the tasks involved in raising our children is the sole responsibility of mothers. Our society typically suggest that Fathers should hunt for f...

  Corazon Aquino was the first female President of the Philippines. She inspired the Filipinos to stage a bloodless revolution in 1996 which toppled the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos who ruled the country for 20 years. That peaceful revolution popularly known as EDSA Revolution or the People Power Revolution inspired the world and led to the rebirth of democracy in the country. The revolt led to her installation as the 11th president of the Philippines. She also became Asia’s first female president and became a world icon on women empowerment, democracy and peace. She received numerous awards during her time such as: 1986 Time Magazine Woman of the Year 1986 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award 1986 United Nations Silver Medal 1986 Canadian International Prize for Freedom 1986 Nobel Peace Prize nominee 1986 International Democracy Award from the International Association of Political Consultants 1987 Prize For Freed...

A surname is not just an ordinary "proper noun." It is the greatest gift a father can give his children. A child should carry their fathers' name with pride especially if it was passed on to them without tarnish. It's a legacy that children should keep and protect from the time it was acquired until the next generation. Below is a a letter of Ninoy Aquino,a Filipino Hero, to his son, Noynoy, 36 years ago.Ninoy wrote this letter from his prison cell. This letter only highlights the sacredness of a fathers' surname and how it can change the course of life of his children. August 25, 1973 Fort Bonifacio 11:30pm Mr. Benigno S.. Aquino III P E R S O N A L My dearest Son: One of these days, when you have completed your studies I am sure you will have the opportunity to visit many countries. And in your travels you will witness a bullfight. In Spanish bullfighting as you know, a man, the matador is pitted against an angry bull. The man goads ...