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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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You can be up at 30,000 feet one moment, then find yourself buried in the jungle right after that. Sheer physics. Gravity. Mechanical malfunction. Death by design or default? But death, nevertheless. To be searched and recovered along with plane wreckage and black box. China Eastern flight. No survivors. No more hopes, fears and dreams…
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President Zelensky is not alone. But he feels utterly alone, from the look of it. Silence is complicit. Russian are now swayed into believing Russia needs to invade for its own survival. One side got silent treatment, the other feels sidelined by NATO and ROW. Take the physical and emotional toll of war out of…
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We all are. Existentially self-evident. Yet we posture and pose. When millions are watching, we ask “intelligent questions” to show the questioner is smarter than the one being asked. I had a college friend who wanted to do a PhD research on how people are behaving differently when the camera is turned on and aimed…
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Happy Friday. To All. And I mean “all”, Ukrainian refugees included. While at it, might as well send my “Happy Easter” ahead of time. We’ve lost a bunch of good folks of late. Let’s hope the next wave of folks that are now washed ashore carry with them bigger and better dreams: a future for…
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I woke up this morning – still under the effect of NyQuil – thinking of the 3 million newly minted refugees. I am one. So I know. Where to pee, what to eat (if any) and where to place your belonging (watching it like a hawk eye). I started out with two sets of hurriedly…
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