Month: March 2022
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Hooks + Books
Game on
The memory is almost two years old, but it still remains fresh in my mind: Twenty people are cramped inside a room,…
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Causes + Bosses
Coffee, yes. You, maybe.
I check the time: it’s 12:39 a.m. Since I resigned from my job a little over a month ago, I…
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Causes + Bosses
What young managers need to know
I did a lot of associate work for almost eight years. I moved from one function to another—human resources, marketing…
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X+Y+Z
Alien art and Annie
When someone asks me how many siblings I have and what each of them does, my response normally goes like…
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Revelations + Destinations
For better or for worse
We’d done everything we could for him—inserted a line of intravenous fluid, given him oxygen, placed the small round pill…
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Baes + Babies
Nigel and Elaiza
Nigel was the black sheep in our family. He was stubborn, devious, loud-mouthed and short-tempered.
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Causes + Bosses
A student-teacher’s handbook
This pandemic has tested our limits and capacities since it started. It has also led us to doubt our own…
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Hooks + Books
‘Walang pera diyan!’
A grin was on my face as I looked at my grades in my history subject for the semester: 100.58—flat…
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Causes + Bosses
CARPe diem
this story originally appeared in the philippine daily inquirer on March 7, 2013. I had been a bit skeptical about…
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