Last week, under doc’s order, I stayed put at home. Self-treatment from a severe case of poison ivy infection. I watched La Piscine, True Confessions and The Great Gatsby: Alain Delon, Robert DeNiro/Duvall, and Robert Redford. All the leading men. Handsome and iconic men. Must be a case of desperate self-projection, since I could hardly…

“Life is cheap over there” said someone who were involved in My-Lai massacre, whose anniversary has just come up. The only person who got a sentence, ended up serving it out of his house. Quite a bargain. Innocent until proven guilty. All the young lives, and all the counsels (the Best and the Brightest), forever…

Pollutants kill. Pandemics kill. But curtailing Climate Change can save some (not to mention Billions of dollars in GDP). Curtailing dis and mis-information on vaccines could have averted many deaths (out of the 1 million we have seen so far). Allow and afford people a back-yard, a hat and a shade as in a Coppola-set…

On top of the Culture divide, we’ve got the pandemic. On top of the pandemic, we’ve got the inflation. On top of the inflation, we’ve got a war in Ukraine (courtesy of Russia and THE Orthodox Church). On top of the war, we’ve got Climate Change. On top of the heat, we’ve got…oh well, Friday…

….when I find myself in times, of trouble….Who am I going to call? the Ghostbusters? Mother Mary. Mother. Mom (I can’t breathe). I follow my Mom. You yours. Heck with the war’s end. Heck with the beginning of a nice media career. Mom. Leave no one behind, especially Mom. Yet we did. Out of our…

That’s how we have outsourced-by handing over: our freedom of self-development, socially and cognitively. “Please think for me” “Please be my stick and carrot” “Please ring the bell so I can salivate”. Social media took over. We “friended” (or unable to avoid and deny a request) our new judges. Voila! Life on display. Morality debated.…

Most of us are mere payload: fill up a gym, an empty seat on the next flight or in my case, the back seat of a speech class at a “cow college” (where football players napped during lectures). USA Today had a piece on Asian Women in leadership position. Tough road ahead. Not only they…

Messaging. Optic. Image. Perception. Zelensky, 2-hour briefing. Subway station as set and fatigue T-shirt as prop. Still dignified. Still Head of State, deserving a State visit from America’s Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State (no more T-shirt?). Either way, I was blogging the other day about Press Briefings on the Rooftop of Rex during…

Associated Press’ Richard Pyle called the Five O Clock Follies “the longest-playing tragicomedy in South­east Asia’s theatre of the absurd” as the US, Australian and South VN press offices gave their daily briefings on the war. Rooftop of the Rex Hotel. Then raw Network footages rushed to dark rooms in Hong Kong or Bangkok for…

Moving is no fun. When you have to move your whole library, books become burden. Today, I started that process. Yet I found myself surprised by joy. The joy of looting, of rediscovering why I had picked a certain title over the others. In short, new found love with authors and writings that have been…