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Days and nights and holidays for journalists are sort of distorted because, as one newsroom says, “hindi natutulog ang balita.” News never stops indeed, which is why people in the media work on Sundays and holidays and most days in between.
The deities of the universe must have whispered to her parents’ ears what name would best fit her. Thus, the most befitting name was given to Maria Grace Uy. The president and co-founder of Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is certainly a woman who carries herself with much grace.
(Somewhere in Europe) – At the airport, the man at the foreign exchange counter was doing his usual routine. He would ask every customer what currency he or she needed and how much. It was simple, really – he calculated the rate, counted the bills and handed the money to each buyer or seller.
It’s a seemingly never ending, nerve wracking game of sharks and minnows; every Filipino fisherman or every man guarding our seas may feel extra jittery nowadays whenever the job takes them to the disputed waters, sweaty even in the cold, biting sea breeze.
Sprawled at the foothills of the famed and enigmatic Mt. Makiling, the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus is perhaps the most relaxing UP campus around the country.
It’s been a busier-than-usual past couple of days in newsrooms here, there and everywhere – from the heartbreaking war that erupted between Israel and Hamas that has already left over a hundred people dead and thousands injured; the higher-than-expected Philippine inflation in September at 6.1 percent from August’s 5.3 percent; protests in Guatemala to the unrelenting Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea and many more.
Enzo Ferrari, the legendary Italian race car driver who founded Ferrari, once said, “One cannot describe passion, one can only live it.”
It’s one of several airports in the world that badly needs a makeover, this beloved gateway of ours.