Posts by: Rica Espiritu

Testing IFTTT on social media. This is a test post of what happens if I reposted my instagram post. Can’t believe how this makes things easier and faster. Unfortunately it can’t schedule posts AND it cannot resize the images properly. Too bad. I was hoping this could streamline a few ‘tasks’. #seo #seojobs...

I know Sundays are meant for leisure. Right now we’re gathered around the dining table doing one thing – working. Mars is teaching Brian on how to use a tech pen. I am taking a break from writing contracts.

My grandmother was a grade school teacher (a strict one) and never let a learning opportunity pass. Earlier I was cleaning out the fish when I saw something that reminded me of one of my afternoons with my grandmother. “Brian!” I called out. My son came with his earphones. “Yes mama?” “Do you know what fish eggs look like...

These were all taken from where the typhoon made the first landfall and where it will hit the strongest – Ormoc City. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";...

It rained in Manila and in some areas, traffic started clogging the streets as the water rose. Two hours later, the rains stopped and the sky was a washed with the fiery glow of sunset. How many of us cursed the floods as they looked down at their drenched shoes? How many took the time to look up and see the spectacle...

Our parents couldn’t help it – they’d compare us to our siblings, our cousins, our neighbors – even to themselves when they were young. At one point in our lives we realize that we have to dare to be ourselves, that we deserve to be happy and live a life that we are excited about. It is something worth remembering once we...

Sometimes I feel that there are places in this world that blurs the line that divides reality from the imagination. It was 7am and the sun was shining through the trees. All I could hear were birds, dogs and roosters that roused everyone from their sleep.   I stepped out and walked around barefoot. It felt good to be...

Amidst the laughter and the singing that surrounded me, I saw a stranger on his board in the middle of the sea. He leisurely rowed away from the beach, away from all that noise. It was just him, the water, the wind in the tropics.   [googleplusauthor]

I accompanied my client and his business partner to Olongapo. Who wouldn’t want to work by the beach? It was an invitation that was too good to resist. Last time I’ve been to Olongapo was almost a decade ago. I was curious as to how the place has changed. After a 5-hour drive, we arrived at around 9pm. It was too...

For most boys, summer means lots of play time. No school. No homework. On this end of the world, it is also the time when young boys are circumcised as a rite of passage to manhood. In the provinces, the boys are lined up under the sun and one by one, they face the village doctor, screaming with fright and pain as...

We spend most of our days working. We talk to people without really communicating. “Do this, do that, what’s the status on, have you seen the news, how’s the weather, this is the plan, boss says, wife says, hubby says, son says”.. No wonder people say we don’t stop to smell the flowers – that is, to stop and look at...

I was fortunate enough to have grandparents who took me for long walks by the bay when I was a child. My grandmother would always tell me, “sea air is good for your asthma. You and your lolo [grandfather] must walk along the bay in CCP [Cultural Center of the Philippines] because both of you have asthma.” When...

Last night I had an interesting conversation with a guy. We’re so immersed in our own environment that nothing stands out. From the weather to the traffic, everything is “typical”. We take the noise, the smells, the dust, the people for granted because those are things we complain about and would rather ignore. But what...

December 15, 2012: Adam Lanza walks into Sandy Hook Elementary School carrying guns, kills 20 children, 6 adults and succeeds in traumatizing the other students, faculty and parents. The world struggles to understand, how can a 20-year old kill his mother then drive to the school where his mother works and  massacre...

True wealth is the ability to fully experience life. – Henry David Thoreau I took this photo 10 minutes ago. It’s ten minutes past 6am and the sky burned with the light of a new dawn for a few minutes. A few minutes were all it took for me to put things in perspective in my life. From the point of view of a person full...