Climate Changes People While The Yankees Dawdle

Samuel Beckett won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and changed the universe of the literate with his book Waiting for Godot, that which is centered around two men, Estragon and Vladimir, who keep a vigil for Godot, who never gets there, the road to nowhere. By refusing to [...]

Having Done Well, ICRISAT Must Do Better!

Poor Team ICRISAT! The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics is exulting, celebrating its 35th anniversary this week, November 21-24, with the knowledge that it has been rated O (Outstanding) by the World Bank. Excellent, I say. Now I shall expect more.
I? I am the poor; while [...]

On The Poor In Science, The Poor In Faith

Regina Isabelle my granddaughter was 1 year old yesterday (Manila time) in New York, November 20; the 20th Philippine Advertising Congress is being held at Subic Bay in Zambales, Philippines November 21-24; my good friend Naz’s daughter Lina is 30 years old November 22; ICRISAT is holding [...]

Climate Change In UK,
Then In UP, Then In US?

Almost simultaneously last week, the Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations (UN) published their official statements on global warming. November 15 UK, a bill to be debated by Members of the Parliament. November 17 IPCC, [...]

Georgia Prays For Rain, I Pray For Reason

Atlanta, Georgia: ‘Gov Sonny Perdue stepped up to a podium outside the State Capitol on Tuesday and led a solemn crowd of several hundred people in a prayer for rain on his drought-stricken State’ (Greg Bluestein, November 13, news.aol.com). The Governor was joined by other State elected officials [...]

Editor, Desktopper, Photographer.
I Love It When Everything Comes Together

Since I’m a multi-tasker, I’m looking at my own website, this one, as I write this one. Since 1968, I have been an avid photographer, if for many years I didn’t have a camera of my own. My brother Emilio gifted me with an amateur [...]

Filipinos Beat Daryl Peach
In World Championship Pool

Simon says, ‘Coping with the inevitability of defeat makes victories all the more sweet’ (Simon Barnes, timesonline.co.uk). Pray tell me, Simon, how can you celebrate a victory when it’s not yours?
Yesterday, Sunday, November 11 (Manila), in the 2007 World Pool Championship, Daryl ‘Dazzler’ Peach of Blackpool, England outshone [...]

The Young Dare Be Entrepreneurs,
They Dare Be Filipinos

The 4 Es Club, that is, Earth, Education, Environment, Entrepreneurship. Right now, I’m the President and only member. This is a crusade. A crusade begins with one man, one mind.
Actually, I just came out with the new name but this crusade is about 2 years old, [...]

PCARRD In Philippine Initiatives
For Global Competitiveness

The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) was the first such sectoral council in the Philippines; it was so successful in research management that it was emulated in other countries of Asia. This pioneer did the Filipinos proud. There are times when the [...]

For Dummies Like You & Me

This is a long story, and it really began 36 years ago, if you can read that long. It’s in my databank called memory waiting to be told all those years. Memory is a databank that fails every now and then, as any 67-year old will tell you. Ask me. [...]

Understanding The Parables Of Buddha, Jesus, Science

Today, we study figures of speech, but especially metaphors. Why? George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, linguist & philosopher, in their book Metaphors We Live By published in 1980 (theliterarylink.com) tell us: ‘We live by metaphors.’ Even if we don’t understand them.
Examples from the book (my examples in [...]

Fr Akong & The Hidden Agenda Of The Rosary

He called it ‘An Offering To Our Lady Of Fatima.’ I call it ‘An Offering To The World.’ In time the world will know about it. He said it was built on time, money, objects, efforts donated by men and women of golden hearts devoted to the [...]