While queueing at immigration upon my arrival at Terminal 3 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) recently, I found it sad that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) — our “modern day heroes” — coming home for Christmas are not getting the heroes’ welcome they deserve.
WHEN I was still in college, I had always thought of love and accounting as two opposite poles (accounting is boring and love is exciting… or is it the other way around?) and mutually exclusive energies (one cannot coexist with the other). As most dictionaries would define, “Accounting is a systematic process of identifying, recording, measuring, classifying, verifying, summarizing, interpreting, and communicating financial information.” At first, I thought accounting is a science when, in fact, it is not. Accounting is an art. Love, on the other hand, is defined as “an intense feeling of deep affection.” If accounting is an art, then love is a mystery. How then is love related to accounting?
IN response to the growing health care financing needs of members and to ensure the sustainability of health care benefits, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) issued PhilHealth Circular No. 2017-0024 last Nov. 1.
Mom, if God does not want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, why did God put that tree in the Garden of Eden?”
The holidays are upon us! Homes, offices, shopping centers, and places of worship are adorned with sparkling decorations.
THE advantages of federalism that accrue to federal countries around the world today cannot be denied. To convert unitary Philippines into several states and then federate them, however, will not bring the same results.
Three Pinoy friends are waiting to catch a jeepney for a ride home. |A jeepney stops in front of them, but only two seats are vacant. What do you think will happen next? They will either give this a miss and wait for the next one, or get on board, with one of them having to sit on another’s lap. Is this a familiar story?
“—is feeling excited. Thank goodness for online banking! I didn’t have to leave the house to pay for my plane ticket. #TaiwanSoon ”