It isn’t everyday that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair comes to town. So the preparations were pretty impressive – from the virtual isolation of the Henry Lee Irwin Theater at the Ateneo de Manila University where he spoke in the morning, to the pre-registration done also at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza where the second Leadership Conference series was held in the afternoon.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
A Day with Tony Blair
It isn’t everyday that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair comes to town. So the preparations were pretty impressive – from the virtual isolation of the Henry Lee Irwin Theater at the Ateneo de Manila University where he spoke in the morning, to the pre-registration done also at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza where the second Leadership Conference series was held in the afternoon.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
An ending (written Nov. 20, 2006)
The minute my younger sister got into the car, she started sobbing.
I felt rotten. It was awkward driving and trying to console her while wondering why I was not as grief-stricken as she was.
Our father had died. She’d flown in from the US to pay her last respects and I was driving her to the funeral home where she would see his remains.
I felt rotten. It was awkward driving and trying to console her while wondering why I was not as grief-stricken as she was.
Our father had died. She’d flown in from the US to pay her last respects and I was driving her to the funeral home where she would see his remains.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
First celebrity fatality of swine flu
I am always amazed by the Filipino's ability to laugh in the face of extreme hardship or to make fun of the most serious of developments, including the possibility of a pandemic.
This picture of a 'dead' Kermit the Frog recently made the round of inboxes at the office. Most of us who grew up with Sesame St. and The Muppet Show immediately got the joke - he obviously got the swine flu from Miss Piggy.
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