When Character and Power Combine

Iced tea with too much tea defeats its purpose, which is to refresh. So we balance it with lemon and honey to offset the bitter taste. Likewise, we often see character waning when someone rises to power and become addicted to it. We're tired of seeing that, but funny how we're often seen doing it …

Education Without Common Sense

More years in school? Really? That makes kids smarter? Is that the solution to the worsening education in the country? If you'd hear it from "education experts" here, it's the very thing that will end all our educational woes. Just prolong the school years and kids will come out competitive with their Asian counterparts. We're …

Aging Backward

Branded a difficult person. That's the last thing I want to end up being. It's okay being hated and persecuted for your beliefs and high ideals, even imprisoned or martyred, if need be, but nicknamed Mr. Toxic? I better drown in my bottomless tea order than suffer that. A wine expert once told me how …

You Win When You Lose

It's barely a month after New Year 2020 and here we are deep in a messy, massive volcanic eruption in the Philippines (mostly southern Luzon). I hear that several other volcanoes in the world are also violently reacting, like all of them fiercely prophesying a coming global cataclysm. I'm not here to scare you. Umm …