"People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think."
--Harvey Weinstein
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Because of rapid developments in the countryside, international conclaves like the ASEAN Summit and APEC Ministerial Meet could now be jointly held in thriving Visayas and Mindanao cities like Cebu, Iloilo, Bacolod, Dumaguete, Palawan, Cagayan De Oro, and Davao.
"When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience."
--Maurice Saatchi
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Back in May 1993 when the Panay Electric Company (PECO) was applying for a 25-year extension of franchise in the Iloilo City Council, among the demands of the committee on public services, environmental protection and committee on ecology, transportation, energy and public utilities from the power utility's top echelons during the public hearings was to put up an accurate meter reading system.
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
--Henry Ford
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- The decision to hold the ASEAN Summit in Iloilo City, Philippines from March 6-16, 2017, aside from Boracay Island and Bacolod City, is laudable.
Summit delegates and other visitors attending the conclave will surely enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Ilonggos.
(PG 13) The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethlamine, is also found in chocolate.
"We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of."
--George Chapman
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Was it a case of "ako ang bahala, ikaw ang kawawa?" (I'll be in charge. You face the consequences).
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
--Arthur Schopenhauer.
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- A Fil-Am doctor from Texas once told a group of sportswriters, including this writer, in Las Vegas that "it will take another 100 years before the Philippines can produce another Manny Pacquiao in boxing."
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
--Mary Tyler Moore
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Some public officials facing a case filed by the Office of the Ombudsman in the Philippines, normally refuse to talk to the media for fear of the oft-repeated adage that "more talk more mistakes."
