I just chatted with my friend Maui who works as a nurse in San Francisco this morning. I asked him about the effect of economic recession in the US and also on Filipino nurses in the States.

He said that they could really feel the effect of it that’s why he and other Filipinos there work double [...]

I watched and read the reports about the countries’ recent clamor about banning liquid and powdered milk, candy, biscuits, chocolate bars and drinks, and yogurt with dairy components from China. Four children already died and more than 50,000 got sick because of milk products after the Chinese government found out that the milk was [...]

Marketing Survivors : Part 1

When I was still the Managing Editor of Launch Asia Magazine, I got the chance to interface with Professor Kotler in one of his Asian Tour seminars held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Manila entitled “New Marketing in the New Millennium.” If Professor Kotler is to be heard, marketing, the [...]

In a tough marketing environment, the customer is king. Where competitive strategies are formulated across today’s market players, traditional marketing no longer works but must rather be as dynamic and able to cope within the ever-changing market trends and demands. Companies spend millions on research, hire topnotch brand managers just to make sure their core [...]

Sharon Cuneta did it. Lea Salonga and Kris Aquino did it. And just recently, Karen Davila and Vicky Morales endorsed it. With the renewed interest and advocacy on breastfeeding, more and more women are likely to be fascinated with the idea of giving breastmilk to their babies. Just like these celebrity working moms, however, the [...]

Since the day we realized that our son is so fond of cars, my wife and I have been looking forward to take a peek into car shows to bring Kyle along. It’s an event we’re sure he will enjoy. The most recent event we attended was the 2008 Transport Motor Show held at the [...]

“Excuse me, but I think I’m certainly sexier than that those boxing gloves!!!” Nope, I’m not saying a line of a woman trying to woo back her straying man from the lure of another woman, but a line we women have to proclaim when our men are being robbed by the charms of a boxing [...]

“We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
we spend more, but enjoy less. We laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry too quickly,
stay up too late, get up too tired;
These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers,
one-night stands, overweight bodies, & pills
that do everything [...]

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ast Year, Filipino students left a legacy when they captured prestigious math contest all over the world. When Henry Jefferson Morco, 12, A GRADE 6 student of Chiang Kai Shek College won a gold medal in the IYMC 2007’s Hong Kong Elementary Mathematics International Contest (HEMIC) for grade school level students, and eight others Filipino’s [...]

I know there are a few bloggers out there who do not believe in PageRank anymore. I’m not quite sure as to why. Maybe it’s a defense mechanism because their blogs don’t have a PR or they have been slapped by Google where their present PR dropped or was back to zero. Or maybe they [...]