I first learned about the concept "meritocracy" from a company website when an apparently satisfied employee desribed his company as a "an always challenging, never boring meritocracy that is surprisingly addictive." I was immediately intrigued by the term because it appeared to be in the same league as "democracy", "theocracy", and "aristocracy", ( Read more... )

Got nothin' much to do so caught up with the latest DJ Montano saga in Brian Gorell's blog.

I pasted below an interesting remark in the comments section of the blog. This struck me cuz I have an expat friend who heads the Philippines office of a prestigious company and who loves every bit of his "Philippine Tatler moment" in Manila.

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I am quite fortunate to have, by accident, come across Couchsurfing. I was on a flight from Bangkok via Cebu Pacific when the on-flight mag, Smile, featured a short article on websites to watch out for. One of them was Couchsurfing (CS).

CS, as I understood from the article, was like Friendster for travellers, although it's not purely for social ( Read more... )

Hahahaha.


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One of the things I really enjoy are magazine ads and their boob tube cousins, TV commercials. These ads really serve to inspire once in a while and I can't help but be amazed by the brains behind them. The wit, the smartness, the clever use of words, the transformation of something familiar into something inspirational. Some ads are indeed works ( Read more... )

What could have been a wonderful memory is now forgotten history. Procrastination reeks of lack of discipline, and this has been my worst bad habit ever since. I really feel bad about this. What a waste of memory.

Beijing is ultra-special because my trip there on October 2006 was my first overseas travel. Beijing started things for me. After ( Read more... )

Mama wants the family to go to....Baguio....after Christmas because she wants a place that will be verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry cold.

I have some reservations against Baguio cuz 1) eleven million people from Manila will also be there come late December, 2) Baguio, as per my last visit, is not that pretty anymore, and 3) I believe there are ( Read more... )

I just knew about it today, but Indonesians actually don't have last names. Well, some (the Catholics) may have, but most of them don't have. If ever they have a second name, it's actually part of the first name rather than the last name. And if ever their second name's not a last name, then it must be their father's name ( Read more... )

I spent the past three working days (Friday, yesterday, and today) attending a seminar-roundtable discussion on renewable energy policies in Hyatt Regency. The whole event was sponsored by the European Commission, which we all know has been very generous to developing (aka poor) countries like the Philippines in terms of developmental assitance, ( Read more... )