AXA Take Charge of Your Health For the very first time in my life, I was tapped as a resource speaker for a webinar. It was for an episode of AXA’s "What’s Your Game Plan" series, and the episode revolved around health plans and how one prepares for health-related eventualities. It was entitled...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL How often have you entered a chat room (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, or Google Meet), and ended up spending a good hour being introduced to people, chatting with them, discussing some presentation or deck with them, saying goodbyes and that you’re...
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner....
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE - OUR NEW ABNORMAL History repeats itself, as we were fervently wishing for “mag-balik ang dati;” and we got it, but the “dati” that’s reappeared, is ECQ. Thankfully, as ECQ is ushered back in, and definitely not welcomed, we’ve also seen industry and...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE - OUR NEW ABNORMAL On July 4th, this column talked about my pipe dream that one day we’d send an all-female contingent to the Olympics. At the risk of being branded a traitor to my gender, I observed how these Filipina athletes seemed to have real drive and...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Chalk it up to quarantine fatigue and to the overconfidence from, and misunderstanding of, vaccination; but as we revert to GCQ here in the NCR, I get worrying reports about how both here and in major cities down South, there seems...
Yam Concepcion and Miguel Cu Unjieng After revealing her engagement online, Yam Concepcion shared details about her upcoming wedding. Yam said that she will marry her longtime boyfriend-turned-fiance Miguel Cu Unjieng during the last week of July. In an interview with ABS-CBN, Yam said that the...
Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng I’m with you in declaring that many Filipinos are geniuses in marketing and in creativity; but I’ll also be honest and say that if there’s one Asian country I’ll tip my hat to for not only talking the talk, but walking the...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng When Rustan's founder and family patriarch Ambassador Bienvenido ‘Benny’ Tantoco passed away early Tuesday morning, July 6th, an era of Philippine luxury retail came to a sad close. For along with his late wife, Gliceria...
Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng A) Just in case you’ve been hiding under a stone, or burying your head underground, one of the more amusing news of the week that just passed was the ‘We don’t need it anymore… oh yes, we still need it’ flip-flopping on...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng While the word fodder is defined as food, especially as referring to dry hay or feed for cattle and livestock, it’s slang usage is saying something is fodder for a particular purpose – and what you really mean is that it’s...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng 1) Chickenjoy! To be honest, I’ve had Jollibee’s Chickenjoy two or three times in my lifetime. I’m more of a burger guy, and that holds true whether it’s Jollibee, McDo, Shake Shack, or other fast food brands. So this...
