“If you can get only one book this year, make it this one.” That is quite an endorsement for a book from one of my favorite blog sites, Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen.
The book is Brain Rules by Dr. John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist. His professional title can be intimidating, but don’t worry, his writing [...]
The next two days, I will be busy with the pre-summit and summit on agrarian reform, sponsored by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and the Rural Poor Solidarity. I have been asked to listen to the presentations and workshop reports, and attempt a synthesis at the end.
But this Sunday evening, my thoughts are [...]
It’s the day after May 1, and I am checking the new internet place in Naujan, my hometown.
I missed yesterday’s mass actions, but not really. Everytime one of these political ”liturgical” dates come up, it’s dificult to choose among the competing events, much less attend all of them. Last year this was easier resolved since ELF had a group of [...]
My New Year’s reading is Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Actually more like a re-reading, since I had gone through an earlier edition of this book during my prison years. It inspired one of the quotations I used on the greeting cards and wall decors we made for our friends and solidarity contacts: “Those [...]
Every time I have a few hours transit time in an airport abroad, I look for a book that I haven’t seen in Philippine bookstores. That’s how I discovered Steven Pinker’s How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate in the Frankfurt airport a few years back. That’s also how I missed my flight once [...]
The subtitle of this book promises to give answers to the question: Why some ideas survive and others die.
It was on the internet that I first read about Made to Stick by the brothers Chip and Dan Heath. Their website gave excerpts and reviews that caught my interest. So when I went with Girlie [...]
Have been in Cebu since Thursday afternoon, to act as external facilitator and resource person at a strategic planning workshop of UPVCC, University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College.
It has been an intense but exhilarating experience. I didn’t know that UP Cebu has such an interesting history. Set up just 10 years after UP in [...]
I was in Toledo City when I heard about the bomb blast at Glorietta 2 in Makati. Texts and calls followed in quick succession, sharing news, asking questions, posing opinions. Days later, the uncertainty continues to hang, together with suspicions.
The government of the day has reason to worry. There is public skepticism about its [...]
This morning, Girlie and I are traveling to Lucena City, for a workshop on lifelong learning at the Enverga University.
She has been exchanging ideas with her friends about making Lucena a learning city, sharing the materials I brought back from Korea. Benilda who is dean of studies at the university has organized the workshop as [...]
We had a whole-day marathon meeting with the ASPBAE leaders, reviewing the draft evaluation report they had commissioned Vasanth and myself to write.
I walked around the streets near the Diplomat Hotel, where we have been booked by our hosts. The sidewalks are like the night market in Chiang Mai, full of stalls selling bangles, crafts, [...]
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