HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng It’s in the nature of media to treat events as worthy of reportage when they’ve just happened, or are of current interest. Media moves on the next day, or after a couple of days, at the best. It’s a fast-paced world we live...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng It doesn’t take a genius to predict that several government corporations and agencies will still be suffering from downward-spiraling revenues and smaller earnings this 2021. If the COVID pandemic was hopefully seen as a flutter...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE Philip Cu Unjieng Happy Mother’s Day! And for you out there who have your moms still alive and healthy, count that as one of your grandest blessings. My mother passed away in 1996, and that’s 25 years ago this year. But as many of you will discover (or have...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng For years, I’d be paying my annual medical insurance premium, and wondering at times, whether it was worth the expenditure. The present plan I’m subscribed to is the Global Health Access of AXA (partnered with Avega and...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Perusing the social media posts of the week, I was struck by how so many were decrying the lack of any National Vaccination Plan or recovery plan for the sorry state in which this recent unabated upsurge in COVID-19 cases has...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng The inescapable fact is that with some form of Community Quarantine still part and parcel of our foreseeable future, the online transitioning of our personal and professional lives won’t be changing anytime soon. Whether on Zoom,...
Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng At this juncture, beyond the lingering COVID pandemic, if there’s something I’ll remember 2021 for, it’ll be as the year I was diagnosed with Stage 1 prostate cancer. And I’ve heard all there is to hear about how it’s a...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng As I’m writing this, I’ve just been admitted at the hospital for my prostate cancer procedure, and I’m doubly frustrated because beyond the standard trepidation over the Brachytherapy procedure which entails me going under...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Here’s a cautionary tale for today. Like a number of you out there, before I turned 60, I never had an executive check-up. For me, it was a case of if I’m feeling fine, then why tempt fate? An “if it ain’t broke, why tinker...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Happy Day of Hearts everyone! This certainly is a strange new world we now live in, when Valentine’s Day requires a veneer of social distancing, with face masks and shields on, while walking “alcohol-washed” hand and hand...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng SM Prime Holdings and the National Resilience Council were the major supporters of an Epidemiology for Communicators webinar conducted late last week. Led by resource speaker Dr. John Q. Wong, the EpiMetrics epidemiologist, the...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng (Part 2) First used this title for my December 26 column, and it looks like the situation has cleared up only to a small degree, while simultaneously also getting murkier. So are we in terrible shape in contrast with other...
