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30 December 2008 ~ 38 Comments

Nostradamus said 2009 will be a year of MEGA FAIL.

I am going to say this with as much exultation and relief as it’s possible to contain in words–It’s over. The pother, the binge eating/drinking, the traffic and cramming for presents to buy; all of it is over.

Now aside from New Year’s eve, I pretty much have nothing else left to look forward to besides, [...]

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11 September 2008 ~ 21 Comments

Semcon 2008, sorry.

Friends, I have a confession to make: There is a huge disparity between the life I chronicle in this great blog and the real life I live. You see, in this blog, you read about an overweight 26-year-old man who has a menagerie of mental and emotional dysfunctions that range from anxiety to borderline psychosis–conditions [...]

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30 May 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Sometimes I overdo this humor thing

Allow me to illustrate: Last night, I was having dinner with my company’s CEO along with 30 some odd managers from different departments. So the CEO was going from table to table talking to everybody and, when he reached the table where I and the company’s marketing managers were, the arbitrary topic of discussion was [...]

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21 May 2008 ~ 12 Comments

Three things I learned about myself last week (Bicol Edition)

I developed a retarded fear of flying. I’ve traveled many times on a plane before but never did I develop a paralyzing fear of flying until last week, after my trip to Bicol with Marc, Riz, Ely, Alvin, Rico, Francis and other USAP Marketing Managers. 
The morning we’re supposed to fly back to manila, we all [...]

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21 February 2008 ~ 12 Comments

Human Resources – A Category mistake

I want to add something to this post, which, in typical Seth Godin fashion, hits the nail squarely on the head.
I have worked with a lot of companies in the past and if there is one thing that’s common between all of those companies’ Human Resources departments, it has got to be the fact that, [...]

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