Heard It Through the Gripe-Vine: Our New Abnormal Philip Cu Unjieng At this juncture, beyond the lingering COVID pandemic, if there’s something I’ll remember 2021 for, it’ll be as the year I was diagnosed with Stage 1 prostate cancer. And I’ve heard all there is to hear about how it’s a...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng Here’s a cautionary tale for today. Like a number of you out there, before I turned 60, I never had an executive check-up. For me, it was a case of if I’m feeling fine, then why tempt fate? An “if it ain’t broke, why tinker...
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...
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...