Our changed grief (and new kindnesses)
We are never getting out of this mess,” a friend remarked ages ago, referring to how the threat of COVID-19 would keep resurging. As an optimist, I would not accept it at first, but as the months...
View ArticleNaomi Osaka: Setting a boundary
Even non-followers of sports can learn something valuable from a recent shock on the tennis stage. Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka announced Monday that she was withdrawing from the French Open, after...
View ArticleA new decade rising
In a few days, we will be bidding adieu not just to a year but also to a decade. Surely, that is nothing short of remarkable. We are amazingly on the brink of what will become our own take on the ’20s....
View ArticleChoosing to be child-free
Sorry, Ma and Pa—you may have to wait a long time before you see your first apo. That is, if a growing number of millennials are to have it their way. Any sample of 20- and 30-somethings in 2019 might...
View ArticleThe economics of attention
That’s what I thought to myself when my mother asked how people make huge money from mobile applications and social media services.
View ArticleA pro-people wish list
Congress has resumed sessions this week after a three-month break for the midterm elections.
View ArticleLessons from corporate governance
Leadership plays a focal role in the natural world wherever communal living is necessary for survival.
View ArticleA time for watchers
It was upsetting news when the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) announced that it was withdrawing this year
View ArticleWhy pop culture matters
Pop culture took over our short attention span in the past week or two. Any consumer of mass media, whether avid fan or mere spectator, would know why. First, “Game of Thrones” finally debuted its...
View ArticleGreat art, bad artists
A haunting tale of child abuse and psychological damage, the spine-chilling documentary “Leaving Neverland” was broadcast by HBO in early March.
View ArticleLaziness or depression?
It will seem like I am making excuses for that one coworker who keeps calling in sick or that student who shows little effort in class.
View ArticleMale privilege and women’s month
To be born male in the ’90s meant growing up with less of the patriarchy of the “Mad Men” era.
View ArticleChildhood ruined
We all miss our simpler days—back when our entire lives seemed to stretch before us
View ArticleMost toxic year ever
We are a few days shy of bidding 2018 goodbye, and it seems like it took some sort of divine benevolence for us to finally reach this point.
View ArticleNot your feel-good fad
Back in 2011, when Earth Hour was fairly new and trendy, one of the big supporting events in my city was a lights-off outdoor show that featured the lighting of dozens of sky lanterns.
View ArticleWhere the wild kids are
For the record, I don’t think it’s true that kids today don’t play outside anymore.
View ArticleOur holidays, or lack thereof
I have spent the last three of four Christmases in the hospital, serving people other than my own family.
View ArticleStudents and yearend stress
We have very stressed university students at this time of year. And no, it isn’t because of the holiday traffic. It is because of the yearend exams. Indeed, it is that time of year again.
View ArticlePower play
Why does catcalling affect you so much?” a friend once asked me. “It’s not a threat, it involves no physical contact whatsoever, and it’s even a compliment!”
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