• Friday, January 18th, 2008
If there is one thing in my visit to the United Kingdom that amazed me, it is the warmth and care of their elderly. I saw them everywhere – in the parks, town centers, school, restaurants, inside the elevators – and there was no single occasion I was ignored like a fly on the wall…
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• Thursday, January 17th, 2008
The world knows about the embarrassing mark the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave our own Air Transportation Office (ATO) few days ago. This is not the first time our local civil aviation authority entered Category 2. It also happened in mid 1990s.
The Philippines received the failing mark after a safety audit conducted by…
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• Thursday, January 17th, 2008
A lady from Brunei who I would always chat with at Ellingham Primary School once told me, “I know a lot of Filipinos. Everywhere I go, I have Filipino neighbors.”
True. On the plane, chances are you’ll be seated beside one. While walking around London, this cute Chinese-looking chap at the burger joint greeted me with…
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• Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Nobel Prize Winner and Baptist minister Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Thousands of people have joined him in this non-violent march to Washington, DC to push for racial equality and desegregation. A year after…
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• Monday, January 14th, 2008
Travel Light went through another major tweaking session this morning. I took out several programs that are not exactly useful, edited and simplified my categories (it's a lot better now), deleted links and kept them away in the bin, and finally, I decided to join
Squidoo.
