Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Hah-Choo! Cat Appreciation Day
Let’s share cat stories for Cat Appreciation Day. This special occasion occurs only when I declare that a celebration be prepared for honoring cats, your cats, and everyone’s cats — the domestic kind, I mean. If we have a Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, then we need a Cat Appreciation Day. Simple logic.…
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The Filipina Says, “Breastfeeding Is Sexy!”
August 15, 2007 In my marketing, public relations, community service, and event management worlds, the keyword “sexy” means “attractive,” “appealing,” “hip,” “trendy,” “in vogue,” “fashionable, “in style,” “contemporary” and all the positive adjectives you can think of. Dr. Belen Lardizabal-Dofitas, a gorgeous, multi-talented Filipina mom (a.k.a. my youngest sister) from Quezon City, Philippines breastfeeds her…
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“AdOfDaMonth.com: are you innit?” The Network For Trained Creatives Who Vote For A Best Ad Each Month
AdOfDaMonth.com – For you to appreciate the ad, “How Some Men Treat Women,” please look at the full-size ad and click here. This provocative ad forces us to think about what we can do to end domestic violence worldwide. This is a plug for KABAYANIHAN, with a call to action: “If you are a victim…
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How To Honor Your Host’s Request For You To Speak For Only Two Minutes Onstage At A Major Event
This is every event organizer and public relations practitioner’s issue: When you’ve invited many speakers to talk before an audience and you want to adhere to tight time management guidelines for this particular function. I am not a protocol or etiquette expert. However, I write “sequence sheets” or “time schedule slash scripts” for some tightly-produced…
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The Filipina Woman’s Image Online: We Have The Power To Shape The Future
On July 21, 2007, during my first day at WordCamp for WordPress users, I spoke up and told my fellow conference attendees about the google bombing campaign my sister, Noemi Dado, and her friends were undertaking to take back the word Filipina online from its massive “dating and penpal websites†and put this word in…
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“Thriller!” – How Cebu’s CPDRC Inmates Rocked the World With An Awesome Rehabilitation Activity
YouTube.com, or “Broadcast Yourself,” is a part of the growing Social Web — where families and friends can share their experiences to others worldwide. Thus, when Marissa Aroy, our independent filmmaker-member of the Filipina Women’s Network (FWN), e-mailed our e-group about what 1,500+ prison inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (or CPDRC)…
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Take A Gratitude Break: Watch The Squirrels!
During the winter months in Chicagoland, my husband and I were not very happy being stuck in the condo, especially during the raging storms. The highlight of our days was “watching the squirrels.” There were six squirrels who greeted my husband every morning at the balcony. One of them would boldly stand in front of…
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July 2008: STC Cebu and UP Cebu Reunions
July 19, 2007 When I was fact-checking the information about the upcoming Pre-Centennial Convention of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America, I bumped into some news about more reunions in Cebu for 2008. Marissa Fernan, our ever-efficient classmate and oftentimes-mastermind of our grand reunions in Cebu (remember the 1993 and 1998 affairs?)…
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University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America: Grand Reunion & Pre-Centennial Convention
July 18, 2007 Everything is set for the annual gathering of U.P. graduates in America on September 1-3, 2007 at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District Hotel, 750 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California! Today, I was on the phone with Ted Aquino, the president of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America (or…
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