Before I started working in Makati, parking was free back in my previous job.   But not without suffering. Parking was limited to the side streets surrounding the complex, since parking wasn’t invested on. So true enough, for individual employees, it took forever to find a single vacant slot.   While there were days (and these […]

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STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO DURING THE 2ND REGULAR SESSION OF THE 14TH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, 28 July 2008
Thank you, Speaker Nograles. Senate President Villar. Senators and Representatives. Vice President de Castro, President Ramos, Chief Justice Puno, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen:
I address you […]

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Up to this point in the campaign for the US presidency, Republican hopeful John McCain has positioned himself as the better authority on foreign policy, prompting rival democrat Barack Obama to make a much-hyped trip to Europe and the Middle East.
But how can America and the rest of the world believe a candidate projecting such […]

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I am just so relieved and thankful that Matthew David Samudio is back with his parents.  Chu-chu, as he is called by his loved ones, was abudcted at a mall in Alabang only last Tuesday.  He was abducted in a video arcade by what police describe as an “impoverished” and “chubby” girl, who was caught […]

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(note: I’m very happy to freely say this)
I would like to personally invite everyone to watch a special documentary on the President’s  State of the Nation Address, written, produced, and hosted by ABS-CBN reporter Nadia Trinidad.
I had the great privilege of being able to work with Nadia during my stint as GMA-7 Reporter at the […]

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Thanks to a more globalized business environment nowadays, more and more Filipinos are getting introduced to the concept of communication assertiveness, which is one of the many communication training programs we conduct to different companies and industries.  From our experience as trainers, we notice that assertiveness is a still a relatively new term to […]

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The postponement of the upcoming ARMM elections could probably help if considered in the context of the ongoing peace talks.  Let us just not forget, however, that the polls on August 11 provides the country a good opportunity to finally see whether the much-awaited poll automization would be accurate and free from cheating .  If […]

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