Personal Not today 12 Jan 202115 Jan 2021 I was asked to sign a waiver at the emergency room for the medical staff to intubate my father. I decline. He hates tubes. Give me another option, I tell…
Personal COVID and the end of the world 17 Sep 202017 Feb 2022 This post is beyond money. Read on for some of my lockdown musings. ------------------- There is hope. We are likely NOT living in the end-times. We are likely in a…
Health and wellness… Yoga without a mat: How a Filipino kid thrives amid COVID19 22 Jun 202019 Jul 2020 The first thing I noticed was her yoga "mat." Her makeshift yoga mat was a sheet or two of carton packages spread out outside her house somewhere in the far…
Governance… Manila lockdown: the upside and lowdown 13 Mar 202013 Mar 2020 What is it like to be isolated? As Manila prepares to be locked down for 30 days, many of the 12 million city dwellers are panicking, hoarding groceries, tuning in…
Journalism… The full story of why I yoga 17 Sep 201919 Jul 2020 I'm taking the spotlight off my usual subjects — the business elite — and sending some attention toward me. This is not for vanity, or because I crave for attention…
Career… Central bank gov Nestor Espenilla Jr, my kindred spirit gone too soon 24 Feb 201924 Feb 2019 “How do you keep yourself physically healthy? You’ll have a high- pressure, gruelling job, and your predecessors have had health issues. How do you assure us that you are also…
Career… About Lala Rimando 24 Oct 201818 Feb 2022 I’m a business journalist focused on explaining wealth — how it is made, lost, destroyed, turned over to the next generation. I’m interested in how the wealthy enhance or deprive lives,…
Business and economy… Jack Ma (#JackMaXDLSU): Find a good boss, not a good company 25 Oct 201725 Oct 2017 JACK MA, founder of global giant Alibaba, is in Manila to engage with students and entrepreneurs. De La Salle University Manila invited him to visit and conferred with him an…
Career… Goodbye…. 8 May 20158 May 2015 Two were lost last weekend: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao's bout with Floyd Mayweather and Evangeline Crisostomo Escobillo's life. Escobillo, known mostly for her short and bittersweet stint as insurance commissioner,…