HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The other week saw me at the Lanson Place, attending the HSMA General Membership Meeting and media launch of this year’s HSMA Virtus Awards – the landmark 10th year that the awards are being held. HSMA is the Hotel Sales & Marketing...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL It isn’t everyday that we can talk about vaginal rejuvenation. So I’m very aware that this lunch with OB-Gyne Dr. Jaycy Violago-Olivarez will either be an extremely memorable one and I shouldn’t miss out on any of the details, or...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The first time I visited AC Health’s Healthway Cancer Care Hospital at Arca South, it was a structure full of scaffolding, and the model units of the hospital rooms had just been completed. AC Health’s CEO Paolo Borromeo had invited me to...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The National Book Development Board will be holding the Philippine Book Festival 2024 on April 25-28 at the World Trade Center Manila. It was at the same venue that the first Festival was held last year; and I was happy to join the recently...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Now that a few weeks have passed, we can talk about it with less passion or frustration. What am I referring to? I want to touch on the Taylor Swift Eras tour, and whether we have any right to complain or bi_ _h about the “fait accompli” of...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Women’s Month this year became an opportunity for SM Supermalls to continue what now looks like a tradition of inviting, and flying in, very interesting speakers to highlight an SM occasion. Just last year, we had noted Canadian author...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Held annually on the fourth Sunday of January, the Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo City is a religious and cultural affair held in honor of the Santo Niño. The word Dinagyang is Hiligaynon, and means “merrymaking.” Originally similar to the Kalibo...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The annual World Economic forum at Davos happened last week. If you recall, our President Bong Bong Marcos attended the 2023 edition; and that was a great success in establishing globally what his assuming the office represented, and...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Along with the irony of the Philippines having to import a dietary staple such as rice, the other sad irony would be how in a nation that’s an island archipelago, we have issues about potable, drinking water. But that is a hard fact for our...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL The song Smile, with the music composed by Charlie Chaplin, has a line about lighting up one’s face with gladness - and this has been the global mission of AS Watson, to put smiles on the faces of its customers. In the Philippines recently was...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL With full disclosure, I’ll confess I’m more of a fiction reader; and so when I was asked to moderate the Monday morning mini presscon for noted author and New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell, I had to scramble and read up on him over...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL “With great power comes great responsibility.” Uncle Ben to Peter Parker/Spider-Man. When Aboitiz Data Innovation mounted the first ever Philippine AI (Artificial Intelligence) summit, I felt that those words from Uncle Ben were resonating...
