Author: OMB

Apologies, my postings are not in accordance with the sequence of events. Our flight took off a little past 9 am. The PAL plane is a 320 with few business

Jollibee owner Tony Tan Caktiong and I walked few more blocks to look for his favorite tempura. The restaurant is on the basement of the Sony building. He had a

Just before I left Manila for Tokyo, I caught the legendary Tony Bennett singing the famous My Best Friend’s Wedding signature music The Way You Look Tonight at the Tonight

Our official activities ended last night and we leave Tokyo this afternoon at 3:25pm. Our luggage call is at 6am but instead, I called the bell boy to get my

It’s 230 am and the DTI secretariat brought to my room an invitation from Metrobank for tonight’s dinner in honor of the President. Our morning would be free but they

Our sched is different than that of the President. Today he and his entourage went to the city of tsunami-ravaged Sendai, a two-hour travel by bullet train, plus an hour

For fear of being late, I ended up not sleeping at all. I went to bed at 1 am, dosed off at 4:45 am, my alarm set off at 5

I am leaving the house at 5 am to the airport. I hope my alarm rings. Our call time is at 6 am, and the Presidential plane PR001 leaves at

I thought the four of us would be able to hear mass together tonight.  My son was still in school and my daughter was taking her midterm exams. Okay, kami

I went back to the weekend market Mercato to buy roastbeef for my daughter but the one she liked, Rodrigo’s, wasn’t there today. I was told they’re only there on sundays.

…..WITH ME!   After a quick 4-day US working visit,  the President leaves for Tokyo on Sunday morning via a special chartered PAL flight.  His schedule has been super hectic. 

Henry Sy, Jr., President of National Grid Corporation, hosted a lauriat dinner for all 300 delegates in China.  The whole grand ballroom of the China World Hotel (Shangri-La)  was filled

When you have grown-up children, same schedules are getting more difficult to come by. My son, if not in school, if not playing basketball, if not hanging-out with classmates and

Last night I caught on CNN the speech of US President Obama at the UN Assembly.   I was in total awe  not from his emphatic delivery  but by the substance