Something has been silently growing underneath for a while now, and it would rather not be ignored anymore. You can see it on the streets and on your phone, in handwritten signs and shared symbols, and in young voices that seem more tired than angry. What many people term the Gen
December 27, 2025
The streets glow with parols, the smell of bibingka lingers by churchyards, and jeepneys crawl through flood-stained roads with cellophane stars taped to their windshields. Inside the church, a choir sings “O Holy Night,” and for a moment, even those at the door feel part of the story: a child born
December 25, 2025
Try a small exercise. The next time someone with a title—director, colonel, president, CEO, doctor, attorney, chairperson, mayor, congressman—tells you, “Share this, it is official,” pause. Ask, “How do we know?” That pause is where truth often survives. Albert Einstein once warned that blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy
December 24, 2025
The images that stay with us in Philippine basketball are usually loud – arms raised, crowds shaking arenas, emotions spilling over. This time, gold arrived without theatrics. In Bangkok, it came through subtraction: fewer stars, fewer assurances, fewer breaks. What remained was a group that trusted one another, anchored by a
December 23, 2025
There is a particular silence that comes after the medal table is finalized. Not the roar of a championship, and not the silence of failure either—just something quieter and harder to pin down. That was the mood after the Philippines finished the SEA Games with 50 golds, 73 silvers, and 154
December 23, 2025
Some of the boldest truths in history came from the quietest voices. Buried under Babylonian soil, the Cyrus Cylinder declared that people deserved freedom to worship and to live without chains. Centuries later, the Mande Charter in Mali proclaimed that life is sacred, women matter in governance, and children deserve education.
December 22, 2025
They say you know a leader has gravitas not by how loud they speak, but by how much weight their silence holds. That thought stuck with me as I sat across the table from my former co-administrators at Ateneo de Iloilo in our usual dinner at Buto’t Balat in Mandurriao, Iloilo
December 20, 2025
The workplace is often just a mirror of society—and the biases outside seep right in. Gender expectations still influence who gets the big tasks, whose opinions matter, and whose efforts fade into the background. Gender neutrality gives us a way to change that. It is not denying inequality but rejecting assumptions,
December 19, 2025
We live in a world quietly guided by invisible rules—those unspoken cues we’re never formally taught, yet somehow instinctively follow. They don’t show up in manuals or school syllabi, but they shape our days just the same. These quiet norms make life a little less awkward, a little more respectful. In
December 18, 2025
Years of embarrassing meetings let me realize that intelligence is insufficient for success. Being an introvert, social events drain me; occasionally, even small talks feel demanding. But life does not allow isolation, particularly in cases of leadership that call for cooperation and connection. Assuming administrative and cooperative roles in academia and
December 17, 2025
There are evenings when a city introduces itself without fanfare—no tourist pitch, no Instagram glow, no curated charm. Last Friday, after Day 1 of our micro-credentials workshop in Bacolod, I walked out of Northwest Inn and let my feet take the lead. It has become a small ritual I practice whenever
December 16, 2025
The mood always shifts when someone cracks a hard truth with a grin. These days, one line has become shorthand in classrooms, sari-sari stores, FB posts, and jeepney queues: “We told them thusly.” Borrowed from TBBT Sheldon Cooper’s smug wit, it is less a taunt than a coping tool. Teachers mutter
December 15, 2025
