Let's help rebuild the Oslob church

The controversy over Meralco has brought to light some business practices that were heretofore in the dark. Let there be light, the power firm's customers are asking.

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The news story says: "Listening to music lowers blood pressure." Not if the music comes from a discoral where all you hear all night long and until the wee hours of dawn is boom-boom-boom.

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My friend and former TF colleague Ben Ypil celebrated his birthday last Sunday. He didn't have the guts to mention his age. He just said: "If life begins at 40, I am now 19 years old."

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If my computation is correct, that makes Ben Y. a senior citizen. Correction: Not senior but seasoned citizen.

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The most seasoned Cebu mediaman I know is Quir Laping de Gracia, Banat News correspondent in Naga City, Cebu. If life begins at 40, Quir, following Ben Ypil's diskarte, is now only 44.

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But Quir is still very healthy and strong. Quite hardy too. He laughs in derision when he hears men of his age, or younger, resort to viagra when the urge to insert, er, assert their manhood comes. He credits his enviable wellness to his wife Josie who takes good Quir of him.

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Lest you forget, the famous award-winning UV Chorale will have a concert at the SM City Cinema One tomorrow evening. The concert is billed as "Bulawanong Dalit sa Oslob" and proceeds from the gate receipts will go to the reconstruction of the Oslob Roman Catholic Church which was razed by fire last March.

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Sir Dodong Gullas and his wife Ma'am Nena offered the services of the UV Chorale in the fund-raising campaign for the Oslob church as their way of thanksgiving to the Lord for the many graces they have received from Him, including the successes of the UV Chorale here and abroad.

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Actually, the fund raising drive for the Oslob church is spearheaded by the Archdiocese of Cebu under His Eminence Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal. The Cardinal has given his full support to the "Bulawanong Dalit" at the SM City Cinema One tomorrow night.

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Many children were killed when the magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit China. Many parents have become childless. I mean those parents who obeyed their government's one-child policy. The pain suffered by these parents must be beyond measure. Losing your only child in a tragedy is painful and the pain cannot be measured, according to one of the bereaved parents. So these now-childless parents -- victims in a way of China's one-child policy -- have to start all over again and hope to have another child each.

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Email from David Larumbe of Toronto, Canada: "I read The Freeman and Banat News everyday through the www.Philstar.com website. I'm up-to-date in news back home. Thanks to your online edition. Daghang salamat."

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BOBIT SAYS: "Always look over the little details of your life, like a child's laughter, a friendly hug, a stranger's smile ... Enjoy them! They maybe small, but when you look back in your life, you'll realize that they made your life meaningful."

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