By: Edwin Anyayahan Esteba SANA ALAM MO ANG TAMA Lahat ng bagay ibinibigay sa iyo Lahat ng gusto mo ay kanyang suportado Pero bakit nagagawa mo pang magloko? Mahal ka nya pero iyong ginagago Ikaw ang walang taong kasiyahan Pamilya hindi mo pinapahalagahan Iniisip mo lamang sariling kaligayahan Hirap at pagod niya hindi mo masuklian Maraming tao ang… Read More »
“Oh Wind. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”, Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, echoes everyone’s hopes as winter comes to a much-awaited end in his famous line. It certainly resonates with many of us as the month of March comes around. Shelley was considered radical in his poetry as well as… Read More »
Being the first Batch of students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila when it opened in 1967 as the first tuition-free university in the Phillippines—they are your Kuya and Ate, the eldest in the Pamantasan family. Being a scholar does not mean all work and no play; it’s not all study, study and study. Remember this song,… Read More »
The Three Wise Men “A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a… Read More »
TITLE: Being Charismatic Greatly Benefits Your Job Search We all know someone who walks into a room and instantly turns heads. There is an immediate attraction to them without any apparent effort on their part. Their company makes you feel good. They seem cool, confident, collected, self-assured and comfortable in their own skin. They may not be attractive,… Read More »
Mare at pare, ate at kuya, kaibigan: Ilang mahimbing na tulog pa at lilipas na ang buwan ng Forever, ng sinumpaang walang hanggang pagmamahalan at pagsasamahan. Remember mo pa ba this timeless death defying line? “O, Pag-ibig na makapangyarihan, kapag ika’y pumasok sa puso ninuman, hahamakin ang lahat masunod ka lamang.” Love will always be what it was… Read More »
TITLE: Employers Buy Into You Based on Emotion “Emotions have no place in business unless you do business with them.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss author. You may have heard the saying, “People buy on emotion and rationalize with logic.” This consumerism adage is also true for how employers hire. Hence, there is an unspoken hiring truism you need… Read More »
Did you know that Turkey and Syria had been a part of the Levant Quartet? In early December 2010, officials from four countries – Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan – signed an agreement to form the Levant Quartet. It aimed to develop closer economic and cultural integration among the countries and envisioned as the “EU of the Middle… Read More »
How could we ever forget Dr. Rolando Carbonell’s Beyond Forgetting? The poem’s lyrics will constantly reverberate in our hearts and mind, especially when we remember the special people who have shown us the power of true love. This poem, penned by Carbonell in the early 60s, is a famous love poem that most of us—the baby boomers—will never… Read More »
“A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant… Read More »