A career in sales can be unforgiving but success in this field deserves recognition and admiration as sales conversion can go south any time.

Australian-based Filipino world traveler Donalito ‘Dondon’ Bales Jr. has already set foot in 141 out of 329 countries and territories worldwide. But for Dondon, traveling is more than just travel count or crossing off items in his bucket list. 

As our world continues to grapple between its state of topsy turvy or restart due to the pandemic, film and television take on a more critical role in providing entertainment and window to an increasingly myopic view of the world.

In a world besieged by pandemic chaos without a concrete ending in sight, Jed Yabut – accomplished project manager and architect turned sustainable furniture entrepreneur, comes as a breath of fresh air to some despairing business news in Asia.

I am happily married to Architect Victor for 35 years and blessed with two wonderful sons. Our first born, Carlos, is also an architect and our second child, Vico, is an artist!  

Early this year, Forbes published Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2021 and one consistently making the list had been Google – the company where young Filipino American Anton “Toby” Francisco had been working for as Tenant Service Coordinator (TSC) for the last three years.

There is so much to learn and appreciate from loving families with an autistic member. Bianca Francisco Dizon, 29-yr-old sister of Toby Francisco, grew up helping her parents, JJ and Pinky, nurture and bring out the best in her autistic brother.

Meet Islandeer - the musical duo of Christian Jansen and Michael Garcia, which had begun to carve a name in the Lion City. Both born and raised in Singapore, the two met at the Singapore Polytechnic (SP) as classmates in the school’s Diploma for Music and Technology programme.

A Tribute to Fr. Orlando Aceron OP, Principal of Science Oriented High School in 1981-85. I was inspired to do this piece after his Keynote Talk during the 1st General Alumni Homecoming of Aquinas University, held at the University Dome. He said that we should not forget our Dominican roots, the values imparted by St. Dominic and, if I remember it right, also Thomas Aquinas on whose patronage the university is named and dedicated. Picture: Fr. Aceron OP (seated), Fr. Jessie Yap OP (standing with me).

With more than 7,000 islands teeming with varied forms of religious practices, the Philippines in 1521 was a tall order to Christianize when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan found it. From uprisings to wars, natural disasters to pandemics, cycles between growing and uphill climb economy – Christianity and the Philippines had survived some of the most back breaking and book-worthy challenges.

People cannot wait for retirement at 60 but not for Rodolfo “Rudy” Bartolome. At age 63, when most people want to slow down and take things easy, Rudy decided to take the path less travelled, i.e., go back to school and get a second engineering degree. Rudy readily admits his mind is no longer as sharp as it used to be but his drive to push himself to lifelong learning and achieve what people half his image does not even want to consider, deserve role model status.

Moy Ortiz, Founding member and artistic director of Asia’s premiere vocal group – The Company

The Philippines is regularly crowned as the world’s second or third largest producer of bananas. Historically, however, the republic had never been a top producer of coffee beans like its Asian neighbours Vietnam and Indonesia.

Do you remember the answer you gave when someone asked you what career you wanted to pursue while you were still in high school? My answer was to become a housewife and entrepreneur.

There are pleasures in life that are never fleeting.   Some good things do  last.  They are lifelong blessings. Like the friendship with my mentors, Mar and Nina Aguas.  They are family, almost like parents to me.

Work life can reveal a lot about a person. From talent and efficiency to how a person treats her co-workers, these are tell-tale signs of the kind of person one is.

I wish to fall in love again!

I was thinking of it while doing my end task at work. I worked in a bank that never sleeps. I usually get up at 4AM and prepare breakfast for my boys and head to my workplace till I clock off at 8PM. I had been a widow for 11 years; my late husband died of lung cancer.

“Breathe.”

This is the very word I told myself as I nervously anticipated my first exhibit in New York last year. It was September and the city was bursting with life. But so much had happened since.

Time becomes more precious as one progressively assumes higher position. When I heard Philippine Ambassador to Israel Neal Imperial was completing his M.A. on Government specializing in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security at the Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University Israel, I have nothing but absolute respect for Ambassador Neal.

A Filipina student in Melbourne shares how she explores her adopted city after her daily routine in school life.