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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Much could be told or written about all the wonderful places worldwide. A lifetime is not enough to discover this wonderful world. Although, I decided to stay in the Philippines for good. On the other hand sometimes I am also thinking about the Filipinos abroad, They are so occupied and so tired with work sometimes [...]
Friday, December 14, 2007
The Southeast Asia Cultural Week (August 28- September 4, 1977) has been celebrated in Tuebingen/West Germany, whre the Philippines actively participated.
Another great happening was the economic conference on Philippine-German development cooperation between representatives of the Philippine Government headed by Dr. Gerardo P. Sicat, Minister of Economic Planning, General Director of the National Economic and Development [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Born in 1953, I started my life at a period when babies were entering the German population than never before. World War II, more or less, the end of the world - as my late grandma mostly described that time - has ended eight years ago. It was not the end of everything. The world [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Following the chronology of the 1970s we have to mark the organization of the German-Philippine Association in Mainz/West Germany in 1970. The Philippine-German Association, mainly for business people, was organized with the former Philippine Ambassador to Germany Melchor Aquino.
Martial Law was proclaimed in the Philippines on September 21, 1972. On July 3, 1974 the Laurel-Langley [...]
Sunday, December 9, 2007
“Pakikisama” is the Filipino term for smooth human relations. It means to have the skill, get along well and develop cohesion, communal spirit and comradeship. These strive after skills Filipinos do learn from earliest childhood on. Pakikisama demands putting aside our individuality, and, as some critics told me, also “killing of individual characteristics”.
There is a [...]
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I love Shakespeare. Most of his literary works can inspire one to prepare one write up after the next. No, hold on, I also love Goethe and Schiller. Of course, because I am a German. A German in the Philippines…
“All the world is a stage” and columnists sometimes might really roar like a lion. Being [...]
Friday, December 7, 2007
I found this fabulous and fantastic story in my published documents from 1988, when I wrote for the mission oriented “Tinig ng Bayan” (The Voice of the Nation), a magazine for Filipinos abroad, published in Abra. This is a revised version, because my opinion is, that, no matter, where we are living on this globe, [...]
Thursday, December 6, 2007
You might miss the continuing chronology today. Don’t worry: coming soon! My today’s write up came into being while driving to Buda to Father Franco with our group last Sunday. When I watched all the nice fruits and vegetables growing in this place near to the border to Bukidnon, I remember the Philippine-German potato stories:
Unlike [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Life is better than ever - so why are so many people unhappy? Whenever I hear people say that things are bad (Life in the Philippines is miserable, says the expat, but life in my home country as well), I think of my late grandma (”Lola”), born 1899 in Germany into a really awful world. [...]
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Following the Philippine-German Relations’ Chronology one should mention the year 1959, when MISEREOR started its international work of helping developing countries with almost 157 projects.
In 1960 the German Trade Mission to the Philippines arrived to survey developing economic conditions and trade possibilties.
On April 7, 1961 the German Cultural Center (Goethe Haus) was established in Pasay [...]
