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World's first blind person to climb Mt. Everest is blind to failure |
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Written by By Wilson Lee Flores
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
Sunday Life, Philippine Star
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of
gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or
sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human
spirit. — Helen Keller, the first blind and deaf person to graduate
from college (in 1904, magna cum laude)
One of my favorite writers, the late novelist Ernest Hemingway, once
said: "There are only three real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and
mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." This is partly why
I was so thrilled to recently receive an invitation from Procter &
Gamble Distributing (Philippines), Inc. president James Lafferty to
meet the world's first and still the only blind person to have climbed
Mount Everest — 40-year-old Erik Weihenmayer. He was invited to speak
at the annual meeting of 800 P&G Philippines employees at Palms
Country Club, Filinvest Corporate City, Alabang.
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Table Talk with GSIS President Winston Garcia |
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Written by William Villanueva
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Saturday, 07 June 2008 |
At the table with GSIS president Winston Garcia on his topic for the Anvil Exchange Forum tonight.
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Anvil Exchange with Winston Garcia |
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Written by Wilson Lee Flores
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
Anvil Business Club will have a dinner forum with Meralco director, San Miguel Director & GSIS boss Winston Garcia to hear his ideas on the high-profile war versus the Lopezes for control of Meralco and how he plans to drastically lower
Philippine electric power rates (which are now the 2nd highest in all Asia next to Japan), how he sold BDO control to Henry Sy of SM Group and his past battle with the Go clan of Equitable PCIBank, how and why he sold billions of pesos worth San Miguel Corp. stocks, where he plans to deploy or invest US$5 billiohn in GSIS pension funds here and overseas, his assessments of Philippine economy now and prospects for business, his views on business management, how to be successful in
business in the Philippines now with our current socio-economic and political situation nowadays...
Winston Garcia is part of the influential media business/newspaper
business clan which has produced many leaders including his sister
Cebu province Governor Gwen Garcia, his father Cebu Congressman Pablo
Garcia and many others. Is it true he plans to also run as Senator or
future Cebu Governor too?
Friday, June 6, 2008
Sapphire Room, Crowne Plaza Hotel |
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ANVIL EXCHANGE FORUM with ANTONIO TIU of AgriNurture, Inc. (Ani) |
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Written by Wilson Lee Flores
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
“Philippine Star” on May 12, 2008 said: “There’s a fast-rising agriculture entrepreneur with the bold vision to seize the many golden opportunities of the ongoing global food crisis. Only 32 years old and a youth whose father died early, self-made businessman and vegetarian Antonio ‘Tony’ Tiu recently gave Philippine STAR an exclusive interview on his plans to publicly list his newly renamed firm AgriNurture, Inc. (Ani for short, which he points out is “harvest” in Tagalog) in two months. He also plans to raise P1.3 billion pesos to expand his fruit exports, farms, fruit processing plants and other integrated agriculture businesses. Tiu’s firm is also the biggest fruit and vegetable supplier to SM groceries and malls nationwide.
“Tony Tiu is proficient in English, Tagalog, Mandarin and Hokkien, his immigrant great-grandfather Joaquin Tiusingko having first settled in San Marcelino, Zambales. Today, Tony Tiu has thousands of hectares of farms planted with jatropha, rice, corn, potatoes, vegetables, chili, mangoes, papaya, root crops, etc., all over Zambales, Sorsogon, Bukidnon, Rizal, Pangasinan, Pampanga and Tarlac. He is planning to buy an Indonesian agriculture firm and a Hong Kong food firm. He will soon launch agriculture scholarships with Silliman University in Dumaguete City.”
When? 7.00 pm. Tuesday, 20 May 2008 Dinner |
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