News that coach

I was in the office when I received an email about the hostage taking in Manila (a portable AM Radio would have been faster). I Followed the link at CNN and discovered it was just across the street from where wifey is working. I gave her a call and she confirmed the hostage taking. I almost rushed to her but she assured me that everything is peaceful in the area sans the resulting traffic.

Perhaps too late to blog, but never too late to use as a value adding illustration. This is CSR– getting too personal. May his tribe increase!!

Gokongwei patriarch leaves half of fortune to charity
By Wilson Lee Flores
The Philippine Star 08/13/2006
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200608130405.htm
Self-made multibillionaire John Gokongwei Jr. is donating half his fortune — at least P20 billion — to [...]

A news story caught my attention, while waiting for my son in the barber shop. I thought this is worth blogging. Just imagine, an article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, reported that a lowly public high school from Samar topped the national achievement test, beating its better equipped counter part schools in Metro Manila. The [...]

Kind’a late reaction, but the subject below touches every Pinoy senisitivity in me
“Mommy, I don’t want to eat anymore,” Luc a grade 2 pupil at Ecole Lalande told his mom after he was disciplined for eating with spoon and fork. “My teacher is telling me that eating with a spoon and fork is yucky [...]

updated 5/2/06
Modern team-building programs evolved from indoors to outdoors. Games and activities nowadays are closely being associated to extreme games. All in the spirit of fun but still with the intent of forging closer ties among team members.
But what is funny to program organizers may not be funny for the participants. A female employee sued [...]