The Filipino author hitchhiked 25,000 kilometers, drifting through 18 countries in Europe and North Africa for 3 years. This is a true story, excerpts from an upcoming book Wings and Wanderlust.
Category: True Story
Filipina doused with boiling water by employer
An overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia was in tears as she recounted how for three hours she suffered in excruciating pain after her employer scalded her with boiling water.
Man amputates own hand with home-made guillotine
United Kingdom. An English man whose hand was badly injured in a motorcycle accident, causing him unbearable pain has chopped it off with a crude homemade guillotine; but even that drastic measure was not enough to relieve his agony.
Imee Marcos in London by anywhereiwander
(Journalist Caroline Kennedy was requested by JV Cruz, then Philippine Ambassador to look after Imee Marcos and her husband Tommy Manotoc for a whole evening in London. The following was lifted from Kennedy’s blog.)
They eat rice only once a year by Dino Crescini
This is a true story that was aired on Philippine television by Kara David, award winning journalist and daughter of Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Randy David. The story revolves around the life of abaca farmers in Sitio Banli, Sarranggani province. They harvest abaca and convert them into strong fibres used to make ropes.
Little brother willing to give his own life so sister may live
Many years ago, I worked as a volunteer at Westmead Hospital after recuperating completely from a coronary bypass. There I met a little girl named Maria who was suffering from a rare and serious ailment. Her only chance of recovery was a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same […]
Imelda Marcos: “I live in poverty in a 2-storey penthouse” by Luis B. Lim
“I’ve had the best, best, best and the worst, worst, worst.” The words were spoken by Imelda Romualdez Marcos as she shook my hand during our first meeting in that May morning of 2010. Two weeks before, I wrote a proposal which I submitted to my cousin, Sonya Mathay, wife of then Mayor Mel Mathay, […]
Untold Story about Sen. Grace Poe
She was a newly-born baby left on a church font. A certain “Sayong” dipped her finger for holy water but instead felt something solid. That was what newly-proclaimed senator Grace Poe learned during one of her campaign sorties in Iloilo.
The $1,000.00 remittance that became $1 million
It was on May 27,1977 when Dolores Ventoza who was then based in New York requested the First National City Bank (FNCB) to transfer $1,000.00 to the bank account of Victoria Javier. Ventoza is a sister of Melchor Javier who is married to Victoria.
Man swallowed by sinkhole
February 28, 2013. Florida. A local man is believed to be dead after being swallowed by a sinkhole Thursday night, Feb. 28.
A drug addict is healed by Bernie Lopez
Rene, an honor student in one of Asia’s best schools, somehow became a hard-line shabu addict. He had reached a point where he would steal appliances in the house to sell for drug money. Like most addicts, he would scream at his mother Joanne when he had no money for shabu, and would hit his […]
Domestic violence victim flees from husband by Dino Crescini
Still looking young and pretty at age 35, Vicky (not her real name) had bruises all over her body when she came to the office of Philippine Sentinel for an interview. She had some cuts in her arms and legs and other parts of her body as a result of severe beatings received from her […]