Define Catnap.
(noun) A brief, light sleep, i.e., To take a catnap;
(verb)To kidnap a cat;
(verb) What some people do when while watching the musical, Cats.
Now that the Philippine run of Cats, the musical is long over, I can confess in the open. I fell asleep when I watched the show with my...
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I am loving the freedom that mobility is allowing me.
Ever since we moved our offices from South Harbor in port area Manila to PASCOR Drive near NAIA in Paranaque, I have refused every attempt by our management to assign me a permanent office. I am very much entitled to one, but I have deliberately...
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Have you heard somebody telling you this? Or maybe it was you telling it to somebody else?
We always see this happening, especially to people we consider experts in their field. They can solve the most complex problems of others but they seem to fail in solving the same problems when it becomes their own....
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I just read this interesting article in HowStuffWorks, which led me to my own musings about the subject of time.
Time has been a subject of curiosity for me ever since I’ve read about Albert Einstein’s theory of relatively, not that I understand any of it. And then of course there is not a shortage of...
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How time flies! My High School graduating class — AAIC Batch 1987 — will be marking its 25th year anniversary in 2012. I made this realization 2 years ago and, as the Class President of our class, I felt it my responsibility to at least attempt to locate my high school buddies. Naturally I...
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“Graduation Hill” is a place. But it is not a specific place. It varies from person to person. In my case, my “graduation hill” is a 1- to 2-kilometer stretch of extreme downhill and uphill trails somewhere in the mountains of San Mateo, Rizal, more commonly referred to by veteran trail riders as the...
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What better way to commemorate Independence day than to enjoy the liberating feeling of communing with nature at the same time that you get to play with an awesome new toy?
That’s exactly what I did on June 12, INDEPENDENCE DAY! I joined my boss and adventure master, Ed Delgado, and two others in my...
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I was so ecstatic when I crossed the Finish Line of the Nature Valley RUN 2010 (2nd leg of the RunRio Trilogy) last Sunday, May 30. I should be. I’ve waited long and hard for that moment. ‘Tis been almost 10 years since I started running and every single year I would aim to...
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When Robert Fulghum wrote his tiny little book, “All I Really Needed To Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” all the world applauded and — short of making him a saint — agreed that his thesis is gospel truth. And I think it is.
But since my daughter, Marielle, graduated from Kindergarten in March this year...
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What’s with me lately that I seem to be drawn into reading depressing books? Within days from finishing a very disturbing book, “Speak You Also,” I found myself flipping the pages of “The Muted Cry: stories of working children.”
I must clarify that a disturbing or depressing book does not equate to bad book. On...
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“The things Filipinos endure for their politicians!”
Yes I know that is a very cynical way to look back at the just concluded elections. Let me take that back and replace with this…
“The things Filipinos endure for democracy!”
I am referring to my very own personal experience last May 10. I posted my 7-hour-30-minutes record challenge in...
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I have been scanning old photos over the past weekend as part of my self-imposed task to preserve those remaining remnants of our pre-digicam lives. Frankly I got more than what I bargained for, realizing only now that we have piles and piles of those aging and fading photos.
One pair brought back of deluge...
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