Yesterday, in the news
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So many interesting and wonderful things happened yesterday. In a little way I was in the news - lifestyle news and good news.
The biggest thing of course was that Daphne furniture got its first ever feature story. Thank you so much to Thelma San Juan, for her support and stamp of approval. I am overwhelmed by her message! Wow. And thank you to Alex Vergara for the wonderful story. To read the whole article, click here.
The story was in the front page of Inquirer lifestyle.
With a lot of photos inside.
In other news... an article came out in ABS-CBN.com from the Olay event last week. I was interviewed by Rachelle Siazon. Thanks so much for the wonderful angle. I really love it. The environment was pretty loud though at the event, so I think Rachelle heard me wrong. I didn't say the word "lucrative." Gasp! We're far from that, haha. I think I was explaining the idea of licensing being a legitimate business. Not sure. But lucrative is not yet in our vocab. Haha. And also ofcourse, my youngest baby is not Bella. Her name is Stella. I do call her Stellybelly or Stellabella sometimes. Thanks Rachelle!!! Love it!
Full article here.
Now back to the Inquirer yesterday, same issue as Alex's article, Dolly An Carvajal wrote her column on celebrities who tweet. She quoted one of my tweets from the other day: Daphne Oseña Paez (DaphneOP): “Learned a big lesson the hard way. Forgiveness only matters if the other person knows he/she’s been forgiven.” Pretty heavy, I know. Let's just leave it at that. Read the rest of her article here
Still on Twitter, I was quoted again for something more serious. It wasn't just a typical rant. It wasn't even customer service related. It was because of a tweet I sent the Department of Education right after they suspended classes at 10am yesterday. Background: On Monday when the storm was forecasted to hit Northern Luzon, Metro Manila was on Signal #1. Elementary kids were required to go to school. I used my own discretion and declared it unsafe for my 7 year old. So she was absent from classes. Tuesday rolls in after a night of heavy rain, but technically the storm had already exited. Metro Manila was still on Signal #1. Even though I had doubts, I sent her off to school. By 10 am I get a text from her school: classes have been suspended by Department of Education. So that's when I felt I had to say something.
My tweets went like this:
@DepEd_PH Why couldn't you decide on canceling classes before kids get sent off to school? It was raining all night.
@DepEd_PH How hard is it to make a decision before we send our kids out to school? Conditions were bad all night.
It got retweeted by @ANCAlerts and read on air at ANC.
A couple of hours after that, Dep Ed declares a major change in their policies. From then on, in Signal #1 areas, the local government units and school principals can use their own discretion to announce whether classes would be cancelled or not. Wow! That makes more sense because LGUs and school principals would know about the local conditions faster and easier. How's that for change?!
Department of Education's Twitter, Tuesday Oct 19. Quick and major policy changes.
Yesterday my tweet made headlines in Female Network. I didn't mean to actually "take on" the Dep Ed. I was just asking a question, as a parent. It is extremely stressful for us - we worry about our kids, but we have to go on with our daily work lives. Not all of us can drop what we're doing and rush to school to pick up the kids. It can cause a bit of panic. But I'm grateful to my daughter's school for being on top of the situation and keeping the information flowing really efficiently.
So now schools have the discretion to cancel classes even during Signal #1. Let's all be vigilant. There will be other storms. Listen to the news - my fastest source now is Twitter, not the radio or ANC. So get on Twitter and see you there.
Read their story here here.
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So many interesting and wonderful things happened yesterday. In a little way I was in the news - lifestyle news and good news.
The biggest thing of course was that Daphne furniture got its first ever feature story. Thank you so much to Thelma San Juan, for her support and stamp of approval. I am overwhelmed by her message! Wow. And thank you to Alex Vergara for the wonderful story. To read the whole article, click here.
The story was in the front page of Inquirer lifestyle.
With a lot of photos inside.
In other news... an article came out in ABS-CBN.com from the Olay event last week. I was interviewed by Rachelle Siazon. Thanks so much for the wonderful angle. I really love it. The environment was pretty loud though at the event, so I think Rachelle heard me wrong. I didn't say the word "lucrative." Gasp! We're far from that, haha. I think I was explaining the idea of licensing being a legitimate business. Not sure. But lucrative is not yet in our vocab. Haha. And also ofcourse, my youngest baby is not Bella. Her name is Stella. I do call her Stellybelly or Stellabella sometimes. Thanks Rachelle!!! Love it!
Full article here.
Now back to the Inquirer yesterday, same issue as Alex's article, Dolly An Carvajal wrote her column on celebrities who tweet. She quoted one of my tweets from the other day: Daphne Oseña Paez (DaphneOP): “Learned a big lesson the hard way. Forgiveness only matters if the other person knows he/she’s been forgiven.” Pretty heavy, I know. Let's just leave it at that. Read the rest of her article here
Still on Twitter, I was quoted again for something more serious. It wasn't just a typical rant. It wasn't even customer service related. It was because of a tweet I sent the Department of Education right after they suspended classes at 10am yesterday. Background: On Monday when the storm was forecasted to hit Northern Luzon, Metro Manila was on Signal #1. Elementary kids were required to go to school. I used my own discretion and declared it unsafe for my 7 year old. So she was absent from classes. Tuesday rolls in after a night of heavy rain, but technically the storm had already exited. Metro Manila was still on Signal #1. Even though I had doubts, I sent her off to school. By 10 am I get a text from her school: classes have been suspended by Department of Education. So that's when I felt I had to say something.
My tweets went like this:
@DepEd_PH Why couldn't you decide on canceling classes before kids get sent off to school? It was raining all night.
@DepEd_PH How hard is it to make a decision before we send our kids out to school? Conditions were bad all night.
It got retweeted by @ANCAlerts and read on air at ANC.
A couple of hours after that, Dep Ed declares a major change in their policies. From then on, in Signal #1 areas, the local government units and school principals can use their own discretion to announce whether classes would be cancelled or not. Wow! That makes more sense because LGUs and school principals would know about the local conditions faster and easier. How's that for change?!
Department of Education's Twitter, Tuesday Oct 19. Quick and major policy changes.
Yesterday my tweet made headlines in Female Network. I didn't mean to actually "take on" the Dep Ed. I was just asking a question, as a parent. It is extremely stressful for us - we worry about our kids, but we have to go on with our daily work lives. Not all of us can drop what we're doing and rush to school to pick up the kids. It can cause a bit of panic. But I'm grateful to my daughter's school for being on top of the situation and keeping the information flowing really efficiently.
So now schools have the discretion to cancel classes even during Signal #1. Let's all be vigilant. There will be other storms. Listen to the news - my fastest source now is Twitter, not the radio or ANC. So get on Twitter and see you there.
Read their story here here.
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