DRIVING THOUGHTS Used to be, a piece of paper that fell out of a pile and flew off with the wind is dismissed as “let it go, it’s only paper.” Used to be too, all documents required for any transaction needed a printed copy; and that did not even get a comment. Today, those instances...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Children grow up, mothers – and their mothering instinct – stay the same. They do not stop worrying if an adult son or daughter is eating enough and on time, or sleeping well, gets home safely after a long drive, recovers from illness or heartbreak. I’m a mother, and even...
DRIVING THOUGHTS By now, most people are aware of ChatGPT. It’s mentioned casually or in jest in a conversation when one means to poke someone to write better, or to be more careful about taking advise from a nicely-written letter from a friend or colleague. Before we begin to discuss that,...
DRIVING THOUGHTS It has been a week of talk about the old and the modern jeepney and all the issues that come with the transition. We’ve heard the jeepney drivers, operators, and transport groups protest the planned phaseout of the jeepney with the PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP) which was...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Yesterday, Feb. 2, Manila Bulletin celebrated its 123rd anniversary. Before 2020, that day was just another day that we marked with a thick print edition supplement, and when social media came, with special videos and bits of history which were recorded in...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Have all the CCTVs monitoring major streets and intersections in Quezon City been deactivated? If those are still on, then no one must be viewing the traffic problem along Quezon Avenue – specifically around the area entering the underpass at Araneta...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Reading is one of the most important values you can pass on to your children. If, by chance, your parents have passed on the love for reading to you, then you are blessed with a lifetime source of good things. Reading is a habit that gives more knowledge,...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Is this the way media events have become? Clusters of people, their heads bowed to their gadgets, are somewhere else but not at the site. That’s the scene that I walked into when I finally went out of my “safe zone” and ventured into attending a media...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares So many people are talking about road safety because it affects all of us who need mobility for basic human activities – work, worship, school, socialization. What is the community doing about keeping our roads safe? In the motoring industry, automotive...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares The stories of scholars who have stepped out of poverty and are now proud breadwinners whose families live better lives tell of how education can break the cycle of poverty. Those stories of past interviews with graduates from the various automotive mechanic...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Today, making crowd estimates has become a sensitive issue. If you want to become an overnight sensation in social media, make a fearless estimate of the crowd in a political rally of any candidate running for president. It will be a number that will...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Thirty-six years after the EDSA People Power Revolution is a good time to think about the freedoms that bloodless revolution won for the Filipinos. I had lived through the martial law years and I know what freedoms we lost then. That’s why my husband and...
