For Everyone:   Whatever was your situation for the past 11 months, CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS and the coming NEW YEAR according to tradition and  personal beliefs and values in life.

For Gabby Moises:  The essence of Christmas is for your kind. Merry Christmas and may God bless the rest of us.

PUBLIC MESSAGE: BONIFACIO DAY   AND  RIZAL DAY (2009)

Andres Bonifacio Day - November 30  and Jose Rizal Day - December 30  /  Philippine Heroes
Bonifacio and Rizal: Two men with different backgrounds, contrasting lifestyles, and opposing ideologies, yet the two shared the same vision of a free Philippines more than a century ago.

PUBLIC MESSAGE: ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY (2009)

Remembering my dad and dear departed ones...

For us, the living, it is important that we remember our dear departed ones and keep them in our memory...and, I guess, our departed loved ones would only want us, the living, to go on living our lives while we are here on earth.

PUBLIC MESSAGE: SHARING IN YOUR GRIEF (OCTOBER, 2009)

     Gusto kong ipahiwatig ang aking madamdaming pakikiramay sa mga pamilya, kamag-anak at kaibigan ng mga namatay dahil sa bagyong "Ondoy" at "Pepeng" na bumisita sa Pilipinas ngayong buwan. 

     I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to the families, relatives and friends of those who died because of the typhoons "Ondoy" and "Pepeng" that visited the Philippines this month.

PUBLIC MESSAGE: CHRISTMAS 2008 AND NEW YEAR 2009

For Everyone

               Have A Nice Holiday Season!

For Gabby "Mabi" Moises, Whom I Call "My Little Girl, My Little Angel"

               A Special Child This Christmas, Year 2008;

               A Special Child This Coming New Year, 2009;

               A Special Child For All Seasons...

               LIFE IS LIVED EACH DAY OF EVERY YEAR OF OUR LIVES.

PUBLIC MESSAGE: RIZAL DAY (2008)

December 30, 1896 - December 30, 2008

DR. JOSE RIZAL

Remembering The Heroism Of A Man Who Was Executed In 1896 For The Freedom Of His Country

FILIPINO AND PROUD

PUBLIC MESSAGE: ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY (2008)

ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY - NOVEMBER 1 AND 2, 2008

REMEMBERING MY DAD AND DEAR DEPARTED ONES AS I JOIN THE FILIPINO PEOPLE IN COMMEMORATING ALL SAINTS DAY AND ALL SOULS DAY

PUBLIC MESSAGE: FOUNDING OF THE KATIPUNAN

FOUNDING OF THE KATIPUNAN - JULY 7, 1892

WITH PROFOUND GRATITUDE TO THE MEN --- AND WOMEN --- OF THE KATIPUNAN WHO HELPED UNITE VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS AND, CONSEQUENTLY, CREATED THE FILIPINO NATION.

PUBLIC MESSAGE: ANDRES BONIFACIO, THE KATIPUNERO AND THE TERM "FILIPINO"

     On August 23, 1896, **Bonifacio and his katipunero (revolutionaries) gathered at a yard of the son of Melchora Aquino....At the yard, Bonifacio and his compatriots decided to start the revolution. They declared their intention to fight and shouted: "Long live the Philippines!" This was the "Cry of Pugadlawin"....

     During the early days of the revolution, Rizal was on his way to Spain to get further instructions concerning his work in Cuba as a volunteer medical doctor....It was on this trip that Rizal was, once again, arrested. He was sent back to Manila and imprisoned. In a military court, Spanish officials accused Rizal of leading the Philippine revolution....and the court's decision was a death penalty sentence for Rizal. On December 30, 1896, Rizal was executed by firing squad in Bagumbayan field. His death added more fuel to the burning desire of the katipunero and the people to liberate their country from Spanish colonial rule.

     The revolution continued, and at this point in Philippine history, the native population considered themselves as Filipinos with a country of their own: the Philippines. The term "Filipino" was no longer the exclusive name for the Espanoles-Filipinos, Spaniards born in the Philippines. It was no longer the exclusive property of a group of people with wealth, education and Hispanized culture. It was a name which had been cleansed of its racial bias and elitism by the blood of the natives. For Andres Bonifacio, the katipunero and the inhabitants of the Philippines, the term "Filipino" meant racial equality, human dignity and love of country in its purest form.

(Lines from the article entitled, "The Filipino: A Proud Heritage" by Alex Moises)

**Bonifacio was one of the founding members of the Katipunan, a revolutionary society. The members of this society were called katipunero (Filipino revolutionaries).

PUBLIC MESSAGE: IN REMEMBRANCE - DR. JOSE RIZAL (2008)

IN REMEMBRANCE

DR. JOSE RIZAL - NATIONAL HERO OF THE PHILIPPINES

JUNE 19, 1861 - DECEMBER 30, 1896

PUBLIC MESSAGE: PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY

MY COUNTRY, MY PHILIPPINES - HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! - JUNE 12, 1898 - JUNE 12, 2008