Golden Haven Memorial Parks, the leading provider of death care services and pioneer of themed memorial parks in the Philippines, proudly introduces its latest offering: The Memory Tree. This unique memorialization option allows clients to honor their dearly departed through a living tribute,...
FROM THE MARGINS My visit to Bacolod last week brought back memories of my days with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP). I worked with the corporate-led social development foundation from 1978 to 1987, initially tasked to manage a demonstration farm in Laguna to show that a farmer...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our wife Gina and we mourn the passing of our dear friend, the respected columnist, veteran journalist, and bestselling book author Carmen “Chit” Navarro Pedrosa. We first met Chit Pedrosa in the early 1960s when we were both young...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. Last Nov. 28, our dear friend, Prince Norodom Ranariddh of Cambodia, succumbed to a lingering sickness. He was 77. Prince Ranarridh, son of the late legendary King Norodom Sihanouk and brother of the current King, Norodom Sihamoni, was...
What a challenge to be young at this time! There’s the pandemic, there’s climate change, but short attention spans, gadget-ruined eyes, lazy memory cells, the age of obsolescence, and snowflakes as well AGE OF OBSOLESCENCE Unlike this TV from the 1950s, nothing lasts anymore, not your latest...
Memory matters By Khristian Ross Pimentel Imagine someone told you their phone number. You go somewhere to get a piece of paper and a pen. Before you even write it down, the numbers have disappeared from your mind. As humans, we forget, and children are prone too forgetting, too. As parents and...
The dangers of emphasizing understanding in education to the point of overlooking the importance of memorization skills Sometimes, my thoughts are a butterfly. It flits around me and, just when I’m about to look closely, it flutters away. I begin chasing it, and see it vanish right before my...