If your work gets you involved in planning for ways to reduce the impact of disasters and to make people and communities resilient in the face of them, you’ll be paranoid if you think of the concept of climate change. The fact that we’re in the Philippines makes the situation worse. We are hazard-prone–to earthquakes, typhoons [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Climate Change
July 30, 2009A Whirlwind Week
July 19, 2009The past week made me dizzy with work. I spent my last days at the office I left so I was precoccupied with the endorsements, parting messages, despedidas and all. With no break in-between, I assumed my new position in my new job. The set-up is totally different. From private company to government. From manager to technical [...]
Bruxism
July 12, 2009That’s right. It’s a medical term for the condition when you unconsciously grind your teeth against other teeth. They say it’s due to stress–your subconscious telling you to slow things down a bit.
I have bruxism–so when the dentist happened to check on my teeth again, after a filling, I was reminded to get myself a [...]
My Speech #4
July 9, 2009CONQUERING THE WORLD
“How can we observe what we can’t see? This is my mind-boggling million peso question for you tonight. The answer is simple: close your eyes. Think of one big thing that shook the world lately. Think of its effects on us. Think of the strong reaction that we had to it. Think of [...]
Airness
July 4, 2009A letter to the editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine recently explained the epidemiology of the current A (H1N1) pandemic in relation to international air travel. The study analyzed flight patterns, especially the destinations of travelers from Mexico. It showed that countries which are the common destinations, like the US and Canada, [...]
