Every time we have an opportunity to go back to our home country, the Philippines, I try to give back as much as I can. We also try to schedule our travel around the Christmas and New Year season because it’s like a pilgrimage for every Filipino living overseas. It’s the season of getting together […]
I don’t usually buy clothes. For the past 15 years, I’ve relied on shirts given to me when I speak at conferences or those that my wife insists that I buy. I do have a couple of dress shirts that I keep when the need arises. I don’t dress to impress – I dress to […]
I wanted to start this blog post with a reference to a TED Talk by Hannah Brencher about love letters to strangers. In an earlier blog post, I talked about my experience with working on a large SharePoint 2010 upgrade and migration project for a Fortune 500 company. I’ve told people stories about why the […]
The past couple of months have been very busy for me. Aside from work-related travel, I have been preparing and studying for the Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008 certification, something that I haven’t really thought about and planned for until last August (that’s left for another blog post.) But one thing that really […]