Life in the Foreign Service is full of twists and turns. There is no telling about what’s gonna happen to us. We may plan ahead, but life always gives us unexpected surprises. After nearly three years of stint at the Home Office, I had a choice on whether to obtain […]
I just got a free vacation in sweltering Venezuela (figuratively and literally), courtesy of my government. If it wasn’t for the panicky decision-makers of that “office meant to protect Filipinos overseas,” I would have already been on my way back to Manila, having finished my posting in Mexico on 31 March […]
Much has been said about the novelist Dan Brown’s “hellish” depiction of Manila in his novel entitled “Inferno.” In the fictional novel, one of the protagonists was said to have been raped in one of Manila’s slums. Thin-skinned Manileños, who abhor any negative portrayal about their hometown, took this as a personal […]
