17 Nov, 2009
The Intellectual Property Gods are at it again. Egging Marketman on, in yet another “jerk magnet” moment (a phrase coined by reader “Toping”) of nearly incomprehensible coincidences. I arrived in Cebu a few hours ago and got to the office. After an hour or two, a call to the Zubuchon phone…
24 Aug, 2009
PHP6 million in tips!?! For bellboys, butlers, security escorts, drivers, porters and what not? Have they absolutely lost all sense of reality? Propriety? Are we well into the Sultan of Brunei (a notoriously GREAT tipper) syndrome, sans the $20+ billion in oil based personal net worth? And this is INDEED…
20 Aug, 2009
Thank you for doing an “internal investigation” and finding no reason to correct any single critical point that I raised in this previous post. In fact, you have confirmed to me verbally and in a written email that my narration of the events was factually correct. In the same manner that staff…
18 Aug, 2009
So now new details of the real “extravagant meals” of the Presidential party on their recent trip to the U.S. dribbles out. It must be hard to keep up a unified fib when there are so many involved and the meals were taken in such high profile and public restaurants… Now it’s…
16 Aug, 2009
All year long, I get lots of private emails. I do try to answer a majority of them, but I have stopped responding to emails in several types of categories. First, I rarely answer emails that are purely commercial in nature, though often I will fire off an answer that says “I…
14 Aug, 2009
“Liar, liar, pants on fire” is a childhood taunt I used to hear while playing with friends or relatives at their homes or at the village park. I never realized (until I googled it a few minutes ago) that the phrase traces its roots back to this interesting poem entitled “The Liar” by William…
12 Aug, 2009
The venerable Washington Post reports hours ago this latest shocking dining tidbit about a GMA & Entourage Dinner at Bobby Van’s, a steakhouse in Washington DC. Probably enjoyed on July 30, after her meeting with President Obama, the short item reports 50+ people running up a tab of nearly $15,000 and an “unidentified…