My Last Babble On Column: Lessons From Column-writing

Farewell (For Now)
(Babble On For the Sunstar Davao, January 25, 2008)
This will be my last column for the Sunstar Davao (for now). I’m taking a break from column-writing (with Sunstar’s permission) in anticipation of some personally significant events coming up this year.
I’ll still write once in a while on my blog and you are [...]

Midterm Examinations & A Leave of Absence

I apologize for the lack of updates. It is currently midterm examination season in law school. So there will be few updates this week and next.
I will, however, upload my last column for Babble On later this week. I am taking a leave of absence from the Sunstar Davao newspaper due to several significant personal [...]

How Your Motto Can Make A Difference

(Originally entitled How Slogans Can Make a Difference, for my Babble On column in the Sunstar Davao, January 18, 2008)
In a recent issue of Forbes Asia magazine, there was an article on “Slogans That Work.” It talked about how corporate catchphrases and mottos can be effective, provided that there is some substance behind it.
Meaning, they [...]

3 Things On My To Do List For 2008

A To Do List for 2008
(Babble On, for the Sunstar Davao, January 11, 2008)
Every new year people make new year’s resolutions. The problem though is that resolutions are always broken.
So I decided to try something new and come up with a To Do List instead. It’s the same basic idea as a new year’s [...]

4 Quick Ways to Improve Your Writing

4 Ways to Improve Your Writing

(Babble On for the Sunstar Davao, January 4, 2008)
As an offshoot of writing a column for the Sunstar Davao newspaper, a short stint as Food Correspondent for the That’s Beijing magazine (when I lived in China) and as a contributor to the AIM (Asian Institute of Management) Leader Magazine, [...]