Today, a parable. Last Monday, my two youngest kids, aged 4 and 5, asked to be carried upstairs to bed. It’s customary in our household. I do it because I know they find comfort in being gently whisked to the bedroom. Also, I’m the Best Dad Ever™. So when my kids ask me to make …
A Manila Grand Prix would be a dream. But first, better sewage, right? The most tantalising news in the past couple of weeks has got to be that Liberty Media, the owners of Formula 1, applied for the trademarks of “Philippine Grand Prix” and “Manila Grand Prix” with the Philippine Intellectual Property Office last January. So, is …
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Our memories are a patchwork that tell us who we are and what we can be. There was a haunting public service announcement in 1980s Great Britain where I grew up, an anti-smoking TV commercial that caused a nationwide stir. For 30 years it has existed in my brain as a vague memory save for …
[Published in Esquire, April 2012] Today I’m gonna be absent from my usual work as a writer. Today I’m gonna be a movie extra for The Bourne Legacy. I arrive at the Manila set half an hour before my 5:30 call time. It’s dark, quiet, crisp. A handful of people lurk in the shadows, fiddling …
How to find out whether you’re fit or not? Easy: go run in one direction for 20 seconds. Done? OK, how do you feel? If, like me, you experience shortness of breath, shooting pains in your shins, and generally feel like dying at the mere thought of running for 20 seconds then you, like me, …
