People power. Edsa II. The world took cognizance of these events which proved that the Filipinos can rise up to calls of greatness! May 10, 2010, the Filipinos made a repeat! Personally, a day before the Philippines’ first automated elections, I was skeptical: will the PCOS machines work? Will my country finally use computers instead of the jurassic “mano-a-mano” elections? Well as the whole world now knows, we were able to...

With my credit card’s freebie, my family we went to watch “Here Comes the Bride” a film by indie director Chris Martinez. But before my two cents worth of comments on the film, let me share with you a not so nice experience we went through using my credit card’s promotional freebie. I was all praises to Citibank’s free movie pass for every P1,500.00 purchase using the card when I came to know about it. However ,when we...

I slept early the night before as a preparation for the golf game. A 53 year old body needs all the sleep he can have to pack up enough energy, so I thought! As a virgin golf player, I really did not know exactly what would happen on the fairways, but my experience in college as a varsity long distance runner told me that I should have enough sleep to have endurance before a long distance run. 15th day of May 2010. I woke up at 5:00 am. Had...

Nine months ago, I finally decided to use the set of golf clubs that was a gift to me from my son-in-law Martin. Off I went to Ace Driving Range (formerly Maru Driving Range) beside Don Antonio Royale Village, Commonwealth Avenue after some prodding of my office mates at SSS who are avid golfers. The manager of the driving range and my office mates gave encouraging words as far as my first few strokes were concerned. I remembered the...

The continuing effort of our family to combat the overpowering rise of the temperature brought by the “El Nino phenomenon” have made our heads more imaginative in coming up with ideas on where to spend the simmering day comfortably and at the same time enjoy family bonding moments. My family thought of one of these places and it is a place called Ace Water Spa. I came to know about the place some four years ago and in fact had...