Congratulations, Manny Pacquiao

Filipinos here in Angola would like to extend our congratulations to Manny Pacquiao for a convincing win against Ricky Hatton last May 3, 2009 (Angolan time). Our poll says it all.
As we all know, he knocked out Hatton in the second round. A very short fight though but Manny has shown the best [...]

A stunning and incredible victory for Pacquiao

Just as always whenever Manny Pacquiao has a bout, our life in the mining camp is turning from a boring to an exciting effect.  This goes to Filipinos all over the world.  Another successful ending by our idol Manny Pacquiao as he battered Oscar Dela Hoya saturday in Las Vegas Nevada USA.
My Filipino colleagues here in [...]

Angolanos – Go out and exercise your right of suffrage!

Today, September 5, 2008, we have no work, yehey! and I am in Luanda and not in mina.  And today is a very special and important day for all Angolans since for the first time in 16 years, they will go out of their house to cast their votes in the election.
The election that is [...]

‘Havemos de Voltar’

‘Havemos de Voltar’ – I guess most of you never heard this phrase, not if you are in Angola or in a Portuguese speaking country.  I encountered this phrase 4 years ago when I enrolled in a formal Portuguese class lessons, my teacher introduced me these famous lines, she told me these are perhaps the [...]

110th Philippine Independence Day

Happy 110th Philippine Independence Day to all Filipinos around the world.  This is the time of the year that reminds us that we are really indeed free.  But the question remains, are we really free in the strict sense of the word?
While I was working in Luanda, every June 12, Filipinos gather around in Viana at [...]

it’ll be DAVID vs DAVID

It finally gets down to 2 contestants in American Idol Season 7.  I have already expected this to happen, the two Davids will battle for the final show – David Archuleta and David Cook.  Syesha Mercado’s big voice and belting out prowess did not win the hearts of the American audience as she was voted [...]

Cool breeze of Cacimbo

Just today when I went out of my room going to the office at 6am, I suddenly felt the first powerful stroke of ”Cacimbo”.  This is the time of year in Angola where the weather is dry but cool.  Usually it will start on May 16 till August, but I felt the “cacimbo” way ahead than expected. [...]

restless desire for shift and excitement…

Impatient?  that’s one way to put it how I am feeling right now…Of course, describing my current mode as erratic, explosive and intense.  Does this mean I need to avoid any and all human contact?  Nah…I think only the ones I want to keep around for a while. 
People sometimes are insensitive to the needs of the [...]

Are you hooked on something?

Topics on addiction are a bit complex and multi-faceted. Hooked on something meaning addicted to something.  I am not an expert on this.  I will just tell you from what I have learned so far.  There are different kinds of addiction.  There is physiologically and physically habit-forming, dependent on chemical substance.  - what’s your story?
Fortunately for me, my addiction [...]

Untangling Weekends

Life on weekends in the “mina” is predictable.  This is the only time where everybody can loosen up a bit from a whole week’s activity.  Miners here become less tense, less formal or less restrained but for others who have its work shift bumped on weekends, well they have to exert themselves by doing mental [...]