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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Lifelong Learning

Fake failures

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “Excuses sound best to the person who is making them up.” IF SOME people have the audacity to flaunt their superficial...

And now, back to work

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “All that we achieve and all that we fail to achieve is the direct result of our own thoughts. In a...

2025: A Year of Possibilities

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett I HAVE...

A high five to 2025

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.”—Nick Frederickson I BELIEVE in the power of starting...

‘A December to Remember’

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “This Christmas season, we must once again find a balance within our busy lives: between giving and receiving, between work and...

Days over decades

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD MORE than two decades ago, I participated in a leadership training organized by the student council. It was held on a...

Monumental laziness

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.” — Bernard Williams A FRIEND once shared to me how he...

Endorsing depression

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “The poverty of the incapable, the distress that comes upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside...

‘A nation of misfits’

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “It is time indeed that the State took decisive steps to regulate and enrich our system of education by directing the...

‘For goodness’ sake’

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD “Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping...