CHAMPIONING EDUCATION New Zealand Ambassador Peter Kell with Manaaki Alumni Tristan Piosang, Victoria University of Wellington and Maria Margarita Lavides, Auckland University of Technology I bumped into New Zealand’s Ambassador Peter Kell on New Year’s Eve. It wasn’t the first time as he’s...
A close look at how much we accumulate in life and how much of it we really need Every few years or so, diplomats and their families are faced with the challenge of sorting through accumulated possessions. It’s kind of a thing you’re forced into when you have to pack up and move your whole life...
The holidays are all about the birth of Jesus Christ, but they are also a great excuse to indulge your sweet tooth more than the usual GLÜHWEIN Mulled wine in a German Christmas market back in 2017. You give a few Euros as a deposit for the mug but you can also forfeit it and keep the mug instead...
TAKING CUES Everyone at the table watched how Israeli Ambassador Ilan Fluss ate the proper way, using his hands One of my biggest regrets in life was going to Israel in 2008 as a young, university student. Don’t get me wrong—I still think it was one of my most memorable trips ever. I got to...
8 BILLION TOO MANY The choice to be childfree must be met with the same respect as when people announce plans of procreating (Photo from Canva Pro) This week, the human population reached eight billion right in the middle of a climate crisis. Our planet’s practically dying as it tries to keep up...
‘In a lot of ways, my story is typical of a Filipino immigrant to Australia,’ says the Korean-born envoy KOREAN SHEILA Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Hae Kyong Yu When Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Hae Kyong Yu entered the newly opened Panco Café, almost every head turned...
Why this writer refuses to accept that women are useless for deciding not to ‘go forth and multiply’ FURBABY The author and her Corgi Juancho on vacation in Venice Every time Mother’s Day rolls in, I find myself waking up to greetings modified for me because of my relationship with my dog...
WHAT WE SEE ON THE OUTSIDE IS ASO A MANIFESTATION OF WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE Dr. Candy Drilon-Dalman of Centro Holistico practices integrative medicine, a marriage of Eastern and Western practices A video advertisement recently earned the ire of the public as it tried to define what “beauty”...
How the return to Manila from seven years of living in Kuala Lumpur and Berlin is teaching this diplomat’s wife how to find happiness wherever she finds herself MANILA JEWEL I Palacio de Memoria interior Toward the end of our time abroad for my husband’s diplomatic posting, I was often asked...
