Comments on: Wrong mother’s day today

By: Abet Bercasio

Abet Bercasio — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:46:47 +0000

I would personally like to thank you Manolo as well as Dinky, Enteng, and Leah for a great time you have spent with us during the last hurrah of the campaign for Abang Mabulo. As the counting progress, the lead of Dato over Abang is getting bigger. I would like to believe that the power of money, promises, and intimidation has worked over the few voices who clamor for change in our politics.

But the few people who went out, volunteered, and worked hard for Abang is a clear indication that there are still a lot of people who desire a better country for their children. The battle in the first district is not at all lost… it has just began.

Now we know how strong is the force of “Tropang Abang” – I’ll call thi group first this name, in the absence of a more appropriate term, and this group shall spell the start of a crusade for a better governance in the first district.

I hope you guys would again find the time to visit our place. Thank you

By: benj

benj — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:46:44 +0000

Great, I have 15 minutes to un-greet my mother! hehe

By: Blackshama

Blackshama — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:34:15 +0000

My Iranian grad student roommate at LSU told me that even in Iran, people now celebrate the American Mother’s Day. It was a recent innovation to boost sales of consumer goods! Iranians have their own traditional mother’s day where food offerings to dear mum (home cooked) were the norm.

This American Mother’s Day I don’t celebrate because of it’s crass commercialism. We should return to our own mother’s day and make it more spiritual. The cadena-de-amor flowers have a spiritual significance since this represents a mother’s unbreakable love for her children

Sadly even priest’s homilies in church have cashed in on this commercial holiday.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:16:48 +0000

Re wrong mother’s day, your mother probably has a point. And come to think of it, we never used to celebrate Grandparents’ Day but these last few years, this one sprung up in malls, complete with raffles and promos. That bolsters her theory about low mall sales.