The Art of Changemaking

Day 0: In Flight
16 July 2010
10:40 AM

As I write this, I am comfortably nestled in seat 20G (an aisle seat) of a KLM flight, somewhere in the skies above Quezon City en route to Amsterdam, with Sophie the iPad on the table in front of me and my dreams and the world opening up ahead [...]

Note: This piece was written two weeks ago, on Independence Day, and originally intended for Blogwatch.ph. Since it has not been published there, I am taking the liberty of publishing it here instead. ~ NTZ
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When Will the Philippines Learn to Grow Up?
By Niña Terol-Zialcita
Back when I was in college, some friends and I were debating [...]

Father’s Day always gives me something to feel extremely sentimental about, as it reminds me of my very unusual childhood and of the soap opera-ish circumstances that have come to define our family. In spite of all that, I am happy to be who I am and proud of where I came [...]

*This forms PART 2 of my summary of my guesting at DJ Vince Golangco’s show on Mellow 94.7 (Sunday, June 6, 2010.)

In the June 6 edition of the radio segment “Edumacate Me”, DJ Vince Golangco and I talked about freelance writing and also touched on travel writing. While I don’t claim to be a travel [...]

Thanks to DJ Vince Golangco (a.k.a. Deejay Vince) of Mellow 94.7, I had the opportunity this morning to talk about one of my ultimate passions: writing. His Sunday-morning programming usually involves a segment called “Edumacate Me”, and my task was to “edumacate” his listeners on how to get published in magazines.
Freelance writing for magazines isn’t [...]

After the craziness of the campaign season, and all the stress and excesses that came with it, my next mission is to reclaim myself and get back to who I really am. The past few months have thrown my body and spirit WAAAAAAY out of whack that there have been MANY times when I’d look [...]

TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People in the World always, always inspires me to write. Reading about the people who make a difference in the world–and reading the words of the equally influential contributors who are hand-picked to write about the subjects–always makes me feel hopeful about where the world is heading. TIME’s editors [...]

As I write this, Grammy Award-winner and legendary blues man, James Cotton “Superharp”, is playing live with his band just outside my balcony. True to the classic definition of jazz, I’ve had a swingin’ time here in the Miri International Jazz Festival–but it’s not just because of the music and the excellent media treatment courtesy [...]