A ‘wonderful’ blog

What do you fear?

aWonderfulBlog greets you “Happy Halloween!”

And here’s a video clip borrowed from Scary Movie for your Halloween entertainment:
 

The boys and girls of P. Campa

IT SEEMS LIKE IT was just a couple of years ago.  Fact is, it was sometime in 1992 when a band of newly grads, some would-be Electronic & Communications engineers from Saint Louis University in Baguio City, came to Manila to confront their future.  Their first mission was to pass the ECE Board Exam. Their [...]

Comedy in Tragedy

 
FOR ABOUT TWO weeks now I have been getting lots of e-mail forwards containing jokes, witty word plays, and hilarious anecdotes about the looming global financial winter.
On October 24 I posted a collection of “proposed” corporate mergers and consolidations.  Some of the merger “proposals” are so funny.  For instance, FedEx + UPS = Fed UP; [...]

The Legend of Google

 
I AM A GOOGLE FANATIC.  You’ll find this quite obvious in the many blog posts I have already dedicated to the subject.  I love Gmail, Google Earth, Google Apps, Google News, You Tube, Chrome, and on and on and on.
I use Google to search for practically anything out there in the “cloud.”

Google answers not just [...]

Amazing Ballet performances

I AM NOT PARTICULARLY fond of ballet.  But these two video clips I chanced upon on You Tube are simply wonderful.
Awesome, magnificent, amazing are feeble adjectives to describe the first video clip.  I’d say, it’s out of this world!
The second video clip will surely touch your heart.
Enjoy. 
 

Book Summary: How to Win Friends and Influence People

THERE ARE TWO things I love best with Dale Carnegie’s books:
 

They are timeless; and
They are written using common, simple words and easy to understand concepts.

 
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” is the first of the three timeless and bestselling books by Dale Carnegie.
I made a summary of “How to Win Friends and Influence People” [...]

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Part 5: Energy

 
IN THE PAST FOUR WEEKS I have posted the manuscript of the first four parts of Sun Tzu’s famous strategy book.
Part 1:  Laying Plans 
Part 2:  Waging War
Part 3:  Attack by Stratagem
Part 4:  Tactical Dispositions
 
Here is Part 5 of Sun Tzu’s the Art of War.

Mergers and Consolidations to watch out for

 
EVERYBODY IS TALKING about the great global financial meltdown that started from the US a few weeks back and is now quickly spreading to the rest of the world.
Mergers and consolidations, they say, are inevitable for businesses to survive this crisis.  Here are some “proposed” mergers and consolidations that I have collected from e-mail and [...]

11 things students did not and will not learn in school, according to Bill Gates

I CAN’T SAY FOR SURE whether Bill Gates really said this or not.  It may just be another urban legend.  Nevertheless, most of the points are worth thinking about.
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Bill Gates telling it like it is….
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave [...]

(Not) only in the Philippines

I TAKE EXCEPTION to the front page banner story in the September 28 – October 11, 2008 edition of EXPAT Newspaper entitled, “Expat’s Guide to Driving in the Philippines.”
The piece was written by Ms. Loraine Balita, a Filipina.  She offers her article as a “comprehensive guide” to expats who wish or are planning to try driving [...]

Another PHILIPS Bodega Sale!

MISSED THE PHILIPS BODEGA SALE last month?  Here’s your chance to avail of the coolest and most prestigious gadgets at unbelievably low prices.  There will be another Philips Bodega Sale on October 25!
Several friends and relatives are still euphoric from the great deals they got in the last bodega sale.  Mind you, many of them [...]

Dale Carnegie Course - Class 880

WHILE ORGANIZING my e-photo album over the previous weekend I came across a set of photos that bring back fond memories.
The photos were taken during the last day of the Dale Carnegie Course I took in the summer of 2004.  It was the graduation day of Dale Carnegie Course Class 880 (DCC-880).
That was more than [...]