ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Two out of every three Filipinos were born after 1972. It is not surprising that, if asked about what they think about the imposition of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos, they would probably shrug their shoulders to express their indifference. But for those of us who were in...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “I left the office on September 8 and I arrived home on September 9.” Thus did an office worker narrate his travails on a rainy night six years ago as EDSA became ground zero of “carmageddon,” a situation of gridlock that stranded thousands of motorists and commuters...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma More than four decades ago, an historic moment took place on a field not far from the Rockwell power plant in Makati. Outside a building of the Rotary Club of Makati, the first Health, Hunger and Humanity (3H) project of Rotary International (RI) was signed between then...
Sonny Coloma ENDEAVOR Decades ago, I worked with a workaholic boss who had a very unique work style. He would be out in the field the whole day: Meeting with stakeholders and influencers, fulfilling speaking engagements, doing media interviews and managing by walking around or seeing for...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Work, worker and workplace converged into one as the global pandemic brought on protracted lockdowns. The emergent scenario: Work is done by the individual worker at his own pace , in his own space , and according to his own concept . As business shifted to remote work...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Hindsight is the clearest of all vision. Instant video replay provides opportunity for granular analysis. Every frame could be frozen to study every action taken, every word spoken. In real-time, the world operates on foresight. Likely scenarios are imagined. Plans are...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Athletic competition is a mirror of real-life conflicts and struggles. The Olympic motto, modified recently in light of a crippling global pandemic, truly inspires: faster, higher, stronger – together. Solidarity amid desolation has become an Olympic ideal. Recall the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Hidylin Diaz’s epic gold medal-winning feat at the Tokyo Olympics has unleashed a torrent of jubilation that is now playing out on the high-definition public screen of digital media. Here's a snapshot from a friend’s Viber post: “Did you ever think you’d see a Filipino...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In mid-2020, House Deputy Speaker and Sorsogon Representative Evelina Escudero proposed the creation of a separate Department of Culture. This was prompted by the clamor for higher levels of budgetary support to agencies under the National Commission on Culture and Arts...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Beyond the pandemic, Filipinos envision a long-term future where they would “enjoy a strongly rooted, comfortable and secure life” (matatag, maginhawa at panatag na buhay). Such aspiration is framed in AmBisyon Natin, a 25-year development plan crafted by the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma At his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) in 2014, President Benigno S. Aquino III rallied the nation to carry on with efforts to demonstrate that, “As long as our faith and trust remain strong, as long as we serve each other’s strength, we will continue to prove...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma After joining the USA-ASEAN summit in Palm Springs, California in February 2016 at the invitation of President Barack Obama, President Benigno S. Aquino III went to Loyola Marymount University to receive an honorary degree on humane letters. He confided to the audience, “I...
