exchange arena poster Originally uploaded by annalyn. Thanks to a sender from the Philippine Business for Social Progress for believing that this blog can help spread the word about their noteworthy project called Exchange Arena. In this endeavor, the country's top companies are invited to invest 1% of their annual employee time for nation-building. The idea is to form an army of employee volunteers to work for some development projects in progress. Attention HR managers: this could be a noble alternative to the out-of-town excursions, basketball ... Continue Reading...

Gyms are really not the favorite destination of Filipinos, malls are. Somehow we have this crazy idea that walking the whole length of Mall of Asia (with stop-overs of window-shopping in between) already equates to time spent in the treadmill. Women wearing skimpy skirts and midribs are also a common sight in Manila :P but rarely will you find a mini-skirted woman who is toned and muscular at the same time. A muscled and toned woman seems odd, by our standards. We prefer to wallow in our slimness and we can only thank God that we are Asian, and in some cases suffering ... Continue Reading...

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One thing about being a blogger and being Google-able is that you get all sorts of comments and feedbacks. For example, I woke up early this morning to find an interesting email in my inbox (where else?) It's the owner of "a start-up web design and development company" in Hawaii who was recruiting me as a web copywriter. The offer seems good since it is "work-from-home" with a promise to be relocated overseas, if all goes well, and of course I presume one will also be paid in $$$$. It would have been one of those garden variety emails if not for the fact that the ... Continue Reading...

The Philippines' biggest bookstore, the Manila International Book Fair, happens only once a year and its ongoing until tomorrow, Sept. 3, at the World Trade Center on Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. cor. Roxas Blvd., Pasay City. My friend, who's the event's publicist, sent this announcement to me: "Touted as the country’s biggest annual bookstore’, the MIBF is sprawled on approximately 12,000 square meters of exhibit space, with 111 participants together under one roof – from publishers to book retailers like National Bookstore, Powerbooks, Goodwill Bookstore and ... Continue Reading...