HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Here’s a true story from the trenches of sales and making pitches. This dates back to more than a decade ago, when I was still with the ABS’ Cable Channels and Print Media Group (CCPMG). We were presenting to a big client, and...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng While watching the coverage of tennis’ US Open at Flushing Meadows, New York City last week, I’d view with envy the full capacity crowds at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. They were enjoying the matches in typical boisterous Noo Yawk...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Ever since this (place your most vilifying adjective here) pandemic began, a plethora of words, phrases and acronyms have cropped up and become part of our everyday vocabulary. Social distancing, pivot, PPE’s, and ECQ immediately come to mind. In...
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...
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 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...
