HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Are we truly ready for the new version of normalcy? Will the demands of jumpstarting the beleaguered economy outweigh the prevailing health concerns? Is the reality that quarantine fatigue has set, and many are already doubting the...
Filipino-American sprinter Kristina Knott (REUTERS / Athit Perawongmetha) The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) is eyeing three more athletes to earn berths to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics set July 3 to Aug. 8. PATAFA President Philip Ella Juico said tracksters Eric Cray and...
Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) President Philip Ella Juico gives an update on the Filipino tracksters’ bid for the coming Tokyo Olympics in Tuesday’s session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) online Forum. Juico will talk about the preparations being...
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 No matter what your political persuasion may be, if there’s something I think we can all agree upon, it’s that anything we can do to help speed up national recovery is an action plan worth its weight in gold. As a parent, I’m...
The novels today are a varied bunch. From literary fiction that’s fairy-tale-inspired, to a dystopian fable with epic weight loss thrown in, to southern gothic with humor, and top grade crime fiction. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey Edward Carey was the author behind Little , one of my...
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...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng In less than 30 days, we’ll be celebrating Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day. In 2021, they’re just a few days apart; and we can only hope that for most of us, there’ll actually be something to celebrate and be festive...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Over the course of 2020, the term “redundancy” was often been used to refer to one’s dismissal from one’s job; but I’d like to go back to it’s original definition of exceeding what is normal, of being superfluous,...
Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng If ever we wondered how those lines in the Christmas carol ‘O Holy Night’ could be relevant in our times, I would think the year that has passed has given us enough food for thought to now take these lyrics to heart: “A...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng If you’ve been following the COVID news lately, then you’ll be aware of the surge in cases that disturbingly accompanied our entry into the month of December. Was this quarantine fatigue, complacency over the worth-celebrating...
