• How I Make Worklife Easier

    How I Make Worklife Easier

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    Being stressed at work is natural. No matter what your job or working style is, it happens. Urgent deadlines, unreasonable sales quotas, heavy work load, a demanding boss or a cold office environment (literally and figuratively) can cause you to pull your hair out and hyperventilate once in a while. As members of the working world, we have no choice but to deal with the stress of our working lives. It’s part of the job, kumbaga.

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    Let’s try to lessen your breakdowns. Shall we? (Via Reaction Gifs)

    In my second vlog, I give you some of my tips on how to make work life easier and less stressful based on my 5 and a half years of being part of the most taken-for-granted sector of society. #HUGOT!

    This is my entry to Nuffnang and FERN-C‘s #WorklifeAyEasy Blog Contest. Ang Worklife ay Easy with FERN-C! Subok Na! Know more about how FERN-C can make your worklife easier on their official website and on their social media accounts:

    Hey! How about you? How do you deal with work-related stress? How do you make your work life easier and less stressful? How do you see the difference in your everyday work life?

  • Suicide, Incorporated: A Play that Speaks to All

    Suicide, Incorporated: A Play that Speaks to All

    Every 40 seconds, someone in the world takes his/her own life.

    Twin Bill Theater brings another thought-provoking production with the Asian premiere of Suicide, Incorporated, a dark comedy that tackles the taboo topic of suicide. Writer Andrew Hinderaker (Penny Dreadful) pens an unusual and almost not-impossible take on the bizarre world of outsourced services. The “incorporation” in focus is Legacy Letters, an OSP (outsourced service provider—as the corporate world calls it) that assists clients in crafting suicide notes.

    The beginning’s s’posed to grab ya.

    Scott (Jeremy Domingo), the owner, means business and even wants to tap the sleeping market of male suicides. Scott has two employees, Perry (Chino Veguillas), the bibo ass-kisser, and Jason (Hans Eckstein), the new-hire who struggles in handling his first suicidal client, Norm (Mako Alonso). When Jason’s not in the office, he’s at home talking to his brother Tommy (Bibo Reyes), a college student with problems of his own.

    Jason (Hans Eckstein) and Tommy (Bibo Reyes) on one side; Scott (Jeremy Domingo) and the detective (Chino Veguillas) on the other. In Twin Bill Theater's staging of Andrew Hinderaker's "Suicide, Incorporated"

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  • Singing The Revolution: Green Day’s American Idiot Review

    Singing The Revolution: Green Day’s American Idiot Review

    Picture this: You’re resting from walking your dog in the parks of Bonifacio Global City. You notice the HD LED billboards and you wish you have those at home to watch Game of Thrones. And while you wait for the dear baristas to finish crafting your Jamba Juice, you hear a familiar electric guitar riff. Then the drums kick in. It’s the first few bars of Green Day’s song “American Idiot.”

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    American Idiot is a feast for the eyes (and ears).
    The South East Asian première of Green Day’s American Idiot breaks barriers as it brings the theater experience outside of a regular theater. The show transforms the BGC High Street Amphitheater to a humongous theater-slash-concert stage where Filipino talent and technology converge to bring entertainment and the arts to the public. Personally, I haven’t seen anything like the American Idiot stage. When I first arrived at the venue, I was immediately amazed at the scale of this production—the first of its kind in the Philippines. Two super high-definition billboards tower on both sides of the stage. LED screens shaped like lightning skyscrapers on center stage serve as dynamic backdrop. Three-level scaffolding on both sides of the stage becomes the cast’s playground, strategically placed to give height and depth to the biggest outdoor theater stage I’ve ever seen. No kidding! Having witnessed it firsthand, it’s really really impressive.

    Globe and 9WT's American Idiot - The Stage
    Rockers’ playground. Wow.
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  • What to Do When You’re Growing Old Single

    What to Do When You’re Growing Old Single

    Recently, I had dinner with one of my groups of friends and I realized that—how do I put this—we were growing old single. Year after year, dinner after dinner, no one was bringing a plus-one. Practically (almost) all of us have not dated anyone. It’s been close to six years since college and we still talked about the same things, while everyone else was getting engaged and getting married.

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    I DO. (Via Teen.Com)

    I realized that we have to prepare, invest and embrace single-blessedness to succeed in this thing called LIFE. Char! Don’t take this list literally, it’s all for fun. But seriously, I’m single. Call me. 📞

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  • Songs to Watch Out for in Green Day’s American Idiot

    Songs to Watch Out for in Green Day’s American Idiot

    9 Works Theatrical and Globe Telecom are partnering to give you Green Day’s American Idiot. And we won’t have to wait very long to witness this amazing theater experience. But before its opening night this June 24, let’s take a listen at some of the songs that I’m most looking forward to listening live.

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