Christmas Traditions Around the Philippines

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 28 No. 33, December 14, 2004

On the cover: Hero Angeles and Sandara Park

This write-up, “Pinoy Christmas Through the Decades,” is more of an editorial satire than a Yuletide article.

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 23 No. 32, December 14, 1999

On the cover: Joyce Jimenez

Read this and know the different traditions of celebrating “Christmas Around the Philippines” (pp. 16, 17 & 19).

 

 

Also in this Mr. & Ms. December 14, 1999 issue is an article on “Watusi Poisoning” (p. 41).

 

 

“Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry you off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; because it is in Him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily.” – To the Colossians 2:8-9, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

Of Abaca and Piña, and the Mode of Transportation in the Philippines

MOD Vol. 42 No. 1888, November 2011

On the cover: Anne Curtis

Another article I had fun writing, “Abaca and Piña: Proudly Filipino” (pp.18-21). Read and you’ll find out why.

Also in this MOD November 2011 is my article “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” (pp. 66-70), which is about the different mode of transportation in the Philippines.

“Your instruction is my everlasting heritage; it is the joy of my heart. I am resolved to fulfill Your statutes; they are a reward that never fails.” – Psalms 119:111-112, The Revised English Bible.

The SEAT of Power

MOD, May 2013
On the cover: Angel Locsin

The “chair,” a simple piece of furniture can be an interesting source of fascination. Think that the mere resting place of man’s buttocks – the salumpuwit in Tagalog – could become the “Seat of (his) Power” (pp. 46, 47, 49). The sidebar “Did Ferdinand Magellan Really Bring the First Chair to the Philippines?” (p. 51) is equally enlightening.

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but in his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His Law he meditates day and night. – The Book of Psalms 1:1-2, Holy Bible, The New King James Version.