Tag Archives: manila

Taxi driver dude, wtf?

For the past 5 years or so, I’ve always driven myself to get around. On the average, I would say that I only take public transportation or cabs thrice a year. My stress levels, however, have gotten to a point where I strongly detest driving on account of me getting pissed off by other drivers [...]

A success tempered with hard lessons. ATTN: PayPal

Early this week, we were finally able to fulfil our obligations to those who donated via PhilippineAid.com and, more importantly, to the victims of Typhoons Ketsana and Parma–at least as far as remitting the funds we have collected via our PayPal account to the Philippine National Red Cross would go. To date, PhilippineAid.com has managed [...]

We raised over $6,000 with PhilippineAid.com – Status Update

The Good News In our aggressive, social-media driven campaign that lasted less than 48 hours, Philippine Aid managed to generate a total of $6,647.51 in PayPal donations. You may have noticed that the ChipIn Event we used to monitor our progress has ended. This is due to the fact that PayPal has flagged our account [...]

The Philippines Needs YOUR Help

At the time of writing, 73 people have died and over 300,000 people have been displaced by Tropical Storm Ketsana (local name “Ondoy”) that struck the Philippines with heavy, torrential rains on Saturday, September 26, 2009. (link) Waters rose to as much as 5 meters high in some areas and the Philippines, seeing the worst [...]

Injun fud

Last weekend, I went out and took my team of 5 out to lunch because, apparently, unbeknown to me, good managers are supposed to take some time out of the office with their directs once in a while to bond. Or in my case, be all awkward around each other and shit because in the [...]