Work­ing here in my new office has done me a lot of good. Because I’m work­ing with sev­eral clients at the same time, I have to be orga­nized or I will get lost in all the paper­work and the myr­iad of meet­ings, doc­u­ments and emails I’m get­ting from them. One of the first things I did was to clean up my work­sta­tion so that only the essen­tials are there. Every­thing else (i.e. scis­sors, scotch tape, bond­pa­per, etc.) I can bor­row from some­one else in the office any­way, so I let go of the urge to hoard my own supplies.The next step is unclut­ter­ing your inbox. What is essen­tial here is to have a Gmail account because it pro­vides you the abil­ity to put labels and archive your posts. This makes for a really unclut­tered inbox (in fact, my rule is to have 0 mes­sages at the end of every day). Any­thing you will need later on will be avail­able by search­ing for it or look­ing for its label.

Here’s Katharine McPhee of Amer­i­can Idol singing Some­where Over The Rainbow.

I love this song. Because if you think about it, it really is a prayer. For a bet­ter life. A bet­ter tomor­row. Some­thing we do not see yet, but is there on the hori­zon. It is what keeps us going on.

I read this arti­cle sev­eral years ago and I have been inspired by the movie. I used the lines of the title in a talk I gave to Ate­neo stu­dent lead­ers around seven years ago. It’s by by Leah Cas­tañeda. It’s kinda long, but a really good read and worth it. I hope you take time to read this and learn a thing or two.

This is an iconic song by an iconic band that grew in phe­nom­e­nal pop­u­lar­ity dur­ing my younger years.

Eraser­heads, or E-Heads was a promi­nent Fil­ipino rock band of the 1990s, formed by Ely Buen­dia, Raimund Marasi­gan, Buddy Zabala and Mar­cus Adoro. The band is one of the most suc­cess­ful, critically-acclaimed, and sig­nif­i­cant bands in the his­tory of Orig­i­nal Pilipino Music, earn­ing them the acco­lade, “The Bea­t­les of the Philip­pines.” Eraser­heads are also cred­ited for spear­head­ing a sec­ond wave of Manila band inva­sions, paving the way for a host of influ­en­tial Philip­pine alter­na­tive rock bands.

So your par­ents or sig­nif­i­cant other are com­ing to visit and you haven’t cleaned for ages. Here’s what you do with only an hour to spare: