The legendary SGV founder Washington Sycip shares some wise words on education, philanthropy, sustainability, dreams for the country and how to enjoy life. I was very privileged to meet him briefly during my stint with Nene Guevara of Synergeia Foundation. Article is from ANC.

If you want to properly understand the history of banking in the Philippines, it would do you good to realize that in this country "business is born, and flourishes or fails, not so much in the market place as in the halls of the legislature or in the administrative offices of the government."

One perspective we could gather in this short interview is that Asia has been continuously emerging and reclaiming its old glory (in recalling high school Asian history, a lot of the technologies, knowledge, religions and [in]famous personalities came from the biggest continent) ... We are slowly breaking down the regional barriers which distinguish one being a Western influence and one being Asian in character. 

Before anything else, let go of your easily-prickable Pinoy pride for 15 minutes and read (or re-read) Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness.

“Society for the Filipino is a small rowboat: the barangay. Geography for the Filipino is a small locality: the barrio ...

This was reposted from pabarcar.blogspot.com

As a noun, keel refers to a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull to provide stability. Used as a verb, it means to turn or upset so as to bring the wrong side or part uppermost.

In ascribing Bill Luz as a keel meant for me that he brought his abilities to “upset” and to turn the wrong side of the Philippines and the Filipinos into something positive and pro-active so that the “stability” we all yearn and dream for is indeed possible.