Before anything else, let go of your easily-prickable Pinoy pride for 15 minutes and read (or re-read) Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness. In this influential essay, the one-time National Artist for Literature holds up a mirror to the Filipino Soul and eschews our love affair with all things small : “Society for the... »

Sharing with you Hapinoy’s Music Video, “Bagong Araw”. The serendipitous story here is that last year, Bam attended a concert wherein our Head of Field Operations RG Salazar was performing with his band, Project Fusion. One of the songs they sang was “Bagong Araw” – to international friends, that’s translated as “Brand New Day”.... »

Links to the Stories : Love Defined on the Field Bagong Araw Music Video Heroes on the Field »

I was in Heima – the brainchild of ubercool couple, culturati Bong Rojales and designer Rossy Yabut – for their Love2010 event last weekend. Heima is a lifestyle & home designs store in the center of the creative universe, Cubao X – which by no accident is also home to Rags2Riches. Love2010 – an... »

You’re probably wondering how in the world I came up with the following equation : Well, the truth of the matter is that lately, I’ve begun to become more comfortable explaining Hapinoy’s Business Model in this way. Most especially now that we’re in a stage wherein we can more tangibly share the next phase... »

Ateneo student, inoventling, and crazy innovator/entrepreneur Matthew Cua woke me up early the other morning to check out his group’s new, crazy idea, the SkyEye Philippines project. The SkyEye team listed above. Not in picture are : JB , Chemical Engineer from La Salle; Serge Gonzales, 2nd Year Management Student (Chief UAV pilot), and... »

Last weekend, Reese Fernandez – President of Rags2Riches, Inc and my other/better half – conducted a transition workshop with the Rags2Riches Cooperative’s Board of Directors. The main content of the workshop was – and stay with me here – finance and managerial accounting. To appreciate the concept on why it’s a transition, one has... »

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Last November, Project Headshot Clinic had its YouthVote Series, One Youth. After getting the invitation from our friends in YouthVotePhilippines, Reese and I went to support :p Since it’s an advocacy project, each person participating for the Headshot had to make a stand for a specific Millenium Development Goal (on top of YouthVotePhilippines core... »