‘Light & Shadows, Coming & Going’ by Gloria
The Basic 4 Of Creativity
There is unity in diversity – if you can find it. This post is in fact a collection of Pages with their individual titles written over 28 days, 01 May to 28 May. I have decided to collect them as one post because the [...]

Or, The Journalist Who Became The Story
This is a horror story thrice told.
One: Ms Julia was murdered in my country, the Philippines, which she had learned to love.
Two: Today, 28 May 2007, I found that I have lost the original of the article in this blog – only the title remains (April 18): ‘Goodbye, Julia [...]

Surreal Butterfliesâ’ by Gloria. Also published by American Chronicle in a slightly different version
Or, Drawing Gas & Drawing Butterflies
I’m looking at a visible universe on the road to Dabda, that which is the 5 stages of grief according to Swiss psychologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Denial > Anger > Bargaining > Depression > Acceptance. To those [...]

‘The Wheelbarrow’ by Gloria
Also published by American Chronicle in a slightly different version

Or, De Bono Debugged
To Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, Osama – or you dummies who can’t think beyond today’s Bush, today’s Iraq, today’s Blair, today’s Israel, today’s Musharraf, today’s GMA, today’s elections & erections, today’s Vista: Debug your thinking!
full essay

Carabao Square by Gloria
Also published by American Chronicle in a slightly different version; slightly revised 15 May

Or, Corruption Begins At Home
What say the thousands of news items, editorials and columns relating to the government ent Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and tomorrow’s mid-term Philippine elections? Mostly Cimmerian, Stygian, Tartarean – never mind what they mean!
After the elections? [...]

Frank Listz

Or, Musical Chairs In Philippine Elections
Senatorial candidates crossing over party fences is the music that played out among candidates for this year’s Philippine elections. Harsh music to my ears. And some of the senatoriables are playing our song, the song of patriotism. Be careful about patriotism now, as it is the last song of [...]

Also published by American Chronicle in a slightly different version.
Or, On Mother’s Day, Do Check The Cough Syrup!
‘Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,’ Mary Poppins pipes in, ‘in a most delightful way!’
And so children love Mary Poppins and cough syrup, and mothers love their children – somebody out there hates [...]

Or, The Secret Of Google
Also published by American Chronicle in a slightly different version.
Man bites dog; Yahoo bites Microsoft – now, Yahoo can tell the whole world that its bite is bigger than its bark.
Yahoo wins! On the rumor that Microsoft might buy Yahoo, Yahoo’s stocks shot up 19% Friday. Microsoft stocks shot down 1.3%.
full [...]

Waterlogged sweet sorghum growing well (ICRISAT photo)
Sorgo: A Rich Man’s Choice Of A Poor Man’s Crop
If you have doubts about sweet sorghum as the choice crop for climate change – either the climate of business or the climate of Planet Earth – either you’re not much of a risk-taker, or you’re not much [...]

‘Fire Of Knowledge?’ by Gloria
iGoogle: The Beast Turns Into Beauty
2 May is My Day Of Denial. George Siemens denies the death of the guru (1 May 2007, ‘To be weary of one’s own ideology,‘elearnspace), Oliver Schwabe denies the wisdom of the guru (26 April, ‘The guru is dead, long live the network,’ InsideKnowledge), and I [...]

From the ICRISAT PowerPoint BioPower presentation
The Song Of Sweet Sorghum
Celebration is the word. While my hometown Asingan was celebrating her fiesta the other week, inadvertently I went there to celebrate my newfound inspiration crop: sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), a crop I believe will revolutionize agriculture in Asia, Africa as well as the Americas, a [...]