Archive for March, 2008

100 Percent Fun and Adventure at 100 Islands

When it comes to tourist destinations and vacation
getaways we tend to look far and ignore what`s in our immediate periphery. Perhaps we hate so much our life`s miserable daily grind in Metro Manila that we want to go as far away from the city as possible.
Until February 2008 I have never been to 100 [...]

March 24, 2008

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Golf, finally

 
I PLAYED MY very first Golf game in the fairway today. This is something really extraordinary considering my background and history on golf.
I started to develop an interest in the game sometime in early 2003. I was still working for a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM then. I was the Head of Sales and Marketing. Naturally, [...]

Reading Steve Jobs

 

Rainbow Church on Passion Sunday

WE WENT TO WHAT MY KIDS call The Rainbow Church today. It is a the new Catholic church in Magallanes Village, Just beside the Asia Pacific College. My kids dubbed it The Rainbow church because of the shape of its roof. You’ll know and agree once you see it.
The Rainbow Church is a recently constructed [...]

SWAMPED!

 
THAT’S THE BANNER STORY of the March 2008 edition of Reader’s Digest. And it perfectly reflects my state of mind these past several weeks. Work e-mails, personal e-mails, blogs, online magazines, online subscriptions, news on TV, news on Radio, newspaper, books, to do lists… the list never ends.
Just last month I finished reading The 4-Hour [...]

Delbros/Delwater AB Normal Club Conquers Mt. Batulao

This article, which I wrote a week after we went to Mt. Batulao, is also posted in the News & Features sections of www.delbros.com and www.delwater.com.

At about 1:30 PM on March 1, 2008, the last member of the Delbros/Delwater AB Normal Club reached the summit of Mt. Batulao in Batangas. It was a momentous event. [...]

Wi-Fi Enabling the Boy Scouts

The BSP Wi-Fi Project
Just a few months ago it was nothing more than a lofty dream: make the entire almost 1 hectare BSP National Office compound a Wi-Fi spot to benefit the BSP professional staff as well as visiting Scouts and Scout volunteers (i.e. Scouters).
Now it is an actual project with funding from no less [...]

New SLEX Exit to Tagaytay (to bypass Sta. Rosa traffic)

 

I came to know of this route on March 1 (Friday). I needed to advise my boss, Ed Delgado, on how best for us to bring about 50 people in about eight cars to a place near Evercrest in Nasugbu, Batangas for our much-anticipated weekend activity.
As it turned out, the alternate route is not an [...]