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Freakonomics: Fruits, Vegetables are Cheaper the further away?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I spent the first 21 years of my life with little fruits and vegetables in my diet. (And I grew up in the Philippines.) Like many other developing countries, the Philippines is often perceived (not quite accurately) to be an agricultural economy. Assuming this as true (after all, we do grow *some* export quality fruits), […]

Ubelievable: Finding Some in the Hospitality Industry Quite Inhospitable

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Were they being bigots, racists, or plain-old inhospitable buggers?
A friend of mine (a masters degree holder with honors) called up a number of hotels here in Singapore. His only sin: he wasn’t calling to book a room but to see if there were any openings. Well, some hotel HR managers (like an HR officer at […]

Help Save Energy with Google’s Blackle.com

Friday, August 10th, 2007

“If Google had a black screen, taking in[to] account the huge number of page views [the site generates], according to calculations, 750 megawatts per hour per year will be saved.”
Google, in a display of environmental awareness and social responsibility, launched <www.Blackle.com>, an exact replica of <www.Google.com> with a black (instead of white) backdrop. Spread the […]

Strike One? Or, are we just being too hard on China?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Huge scandal–Siu Pao sold on China’s streets are cardboard-filled! While a number of global fastfood chains are rumored to use onions and ‘low-grade beef’ as burger fillers and global food manufacturers, cartilege in hotdogs, the world declares cardboard ‘taking it too far’. China is, after all, the well-known least cost, least quality source of goods […]

JCA Pizzaria: Cebu’s *Best Cost* Pizza
How an Assortment of Seemingly Inappropriate Food can make Great Tasting Pizza!

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Way back when I was in grade school, my cousin Robert (much older than me and my brothers) would take us to JCA for a bite of pizza. Back then, we considered Pizza Hut and Shakey’s high-end. Well, JCA only had a few items on its menu. It’s specialty: <i>Magic pizza</i>.
The Cebu market is all […]

With an Eye for the *Good News*

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Check out my blogroll for a link to Inquirer.net’s *Good News Page*–the news group’s response to Philippine Media being *all about the bad*. This special section of Inquirer.net features all the good news stories on the Philippines. Good idea, no? Well, read it. Then, promote it! I think daily supply of good news is just […]

Good Real Estate Buy - Cebu City

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Ever wanted to live up in the mountains but still be just a few minutes away from the city where work, study and shopping will likely be? Well, for metros like Manila, this may be an impossibility but not so for Cebu!
Ever wondered why Cebu’s international airport is located in Mactan and not Cebu City […]

Budget Boom: Good but Cheaper, Good but Cheaper

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Southeast Asia is all about ‘best cost’–the best quality for the best price, where best does not equal cheapest or high-end but more likely cheaper and higher-end. Southeast Asian budget airline trailblazer AirAsia was followed by a series of other highly successful regional budget carriers, including Singapore’s Tiger Airways and our very own Cebu Pacific […]

Aren’t we all “SEC of it all”?
(The Media and Government are at it again!)

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

You’ve got to read it for yourself.
Just a brief teaser: Conspiracy theory, the SEC attempts to sabotage Phoenix Petroleum’s recent IPO through leaking potentially damaging information to the media but fails.
Link: Inquirer’s Conrado R. Banal III in “SEC of it all”

Marketing-driven Development

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

We’ve all heard about marketing-driven growth. It’s near become a cliche in business schools and the circles to which their graduates soon enter.  But taking the concept a little further, applying the strengths of marketing (whether you consider the set of concepts, principles and frameworks that constitute it a science or an art) to the […]

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