Blogs
Proud of Paolo
By Rossana Llenado It was a terribly busy day filled with all sorts of stress and get-it-done drama when I received some great news. My son Paolo has been accepted at Mensa Philippines after taking the qualifying exams at the University of the Philippines. When I read...
Note to Self
By Karen Galarpe Watching Giada de Laurentiis, Anthony Bourdain, and even the kids on “Junior Master Chef Pinoy Edition” on TV last weekend, I got amazed once more at how they all seem to be so good at cooking. It's so natural to them as breathing, and they seem to...
Sharing Our Vision
By Rossana Llenado The other week, we had an orientation talk for potential franchisees of AHEAD Tutorial & Review Center. When we started offering review programs in 1995, we immediately got franchise inquiries. Even then, a lot of people saw the viability...
Baby Talk
By Lyra Pore “Mom, are you going to have another baby?” “No.” “How do you know?” “We can’t afford another baby.” “Mom, you don’t have to buy it! You just pop the baby out of your tummy!” To my seven-year-old daughter, having a baby is but a simple matter. Several...
10 Things I Learned from Breastfeeding 4 Kids
By Jing Lejano I breastfed all of my children. Yes, all four of them. At the time, breastfeeding wasn’t the big thing that it is today. Still, I knew that I had to do it—something in my gut told me that breastfeeding was the way to go. And so, in a span of six or...
Get Into Your Kid’s World
By Karen Galarpe "Oh look, it's Domo-kun!" I said, pointing to stuffed toys of the brown Japanese character at Toy Con 2011, the annual toy convention recently held at SM Megamall. "And Angry Birds, and lots of anime characters. Do they have Lucky Star?" Yup, that's...
Bonding Over Harry Potter
By Lyra Pore Hogwarts. Quidditch. Wands and spells. The first time the Harry Potter series hit bookstores back in the late ‘90s, I couldn’t stand the books. “I’m too old for this.” I dismissed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone after just a few pages of reading...
Change Would Do You Good!
By Mari-An Santos Change excites and terrifies. I don’t think anyone who encounters change feels just one or the other; they seem to go hand in hand. I am due for a change myself. A change that will once again test whether I am a wallflower or an adventurer, whether I...
Affirmation
By Ruth Manimtim-Floresca There are usually two types of people I encounter in my line of work: those who inspire and encourage and those who can turn a good day bad. Thankfully, over the years, I’ve learned that life always has ways of balancing things out. One...