Category: Personal
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Not today
This is a personal story about how my father overcame a scary, almost fatal experience mere 7 days into the new year. I’m sharing this to inspire you that there can be victory even in a health crisis (and to remind myself how much of a warrior he is).
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COVID and the end of the world
Have you given up, comforted by the idea it’s someone else’s fault or that the End Is Coming anyway? Or do you believe there’s a future this “season” is preparing you for?
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Yoga without a mat: How a Filipino kid thrives amid COVID19
An 8-year-old from a remote area joins a Kids Yoga session streamed live. Nicole doesn’t have a yoga mat.
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Manila lockdown: the upside and lowdown
Getting past the stark realities of our uninspiring leaders, and giving up the urge to hoard or pass on juicy but unverified news are actually opportunities to self-examine
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The full story of why I yoga
When I’m not writing or managing newsrooms, I am on a yoga mat. I’m sharing here my parallel journeys as a journalist and as someone who process my human frailties…while I practice yoga.
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Central bank gov Nestor Espenilla Jr, my kindred spirit gone too soon
We had several things in common: powerful foes, health woes, and more
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Jack Ma (#JackMaXDLSU): Find a good boss, not a good company
“Don’t be discouraged when people don’t help you. Why should people help you? You should earn the right to be helped.”
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Goodbye….
Two were lost last weekend: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s bout with Floyd Mayweather, and Evangeline Escobillo’s life. “Tita Vangie,” as I have called her after we have moved on from our source and reporter roles to being friends, was always full of life that it is hard to imagine she is no longer alive. I…
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