This one I got from the Busi­ness Mir­ror. My work con­stantly reit­er­ates how there are really no such things as acci­dents. “Acci­dents”, as we know them, are really due to many man-made fac­tors: lack of train­ing, a lack of sys­tems, or pro­ce­dures to fol­low, and/or plain old stu­pid­ity. This is one of those things. 32 years ago, there was a study that showed how Marik­ina is unsuit­able for development.

This is really fun! Because in an age of show­downs and rivalry and com­pe­ti­tion, two mas­cots can bring a smile to our faces. These are two mas­cots of two of the Philip­pines’ com­pet­ing fast­food joints.

I was cross­ing my fin­gers for Ronald McDon­ald to enter the fray at the last moment!

When I went to Jakarta the other week, I had $100 in my pocket which I con­verted to around Rp9,500,000 to tide me over my trip. I spent some of it in buy­ing a Jakarta sim, but the rest of the time, my cousin Glenn, who is an expat in Indone­sia, took care of prac­ti­cally every­thing. My boss, Danny, also used his credit card for some other expenses. So at the end of the trip, my $100 sur­vived Indone­sia almost intact.

Read this when I was blog­ging the other day and couldn’t seem to think of any­thing to write about. It worked! Here are 15 Tips on Gen­er­at­ing Ideas and Writ­ing with Ease…

Belinda Gore writes a short and con­cise arti­cle on what to do dur­ing these trou­bled times. It is part stress-busting, part psy­cho­log­i­cal strength­en­ing and build­ing inner energy for life in general.