When I was accepted as a graduate student of the Ramon V. Del Rosario – College of Business of De Lasalle University, my expectation was that, my entire stay in the graduate school would be loaded with business-focused sessions in most of the classes. I anticipated that we would be taught heavily on how to … More Reflection: BUS560M and ELGA

It was March 11, 2017, when sixty milliliters (60 ml) of mercury spilled in the science laboratory of Manila Science High School. The news broke out only last March 25, 2017. All classes in that school were suspended for two weeks pending completion of the clean-up, and release of the clinical result of the tests … More Reflection: The Manila Science High School Mercury Leak Incident

At around 7:30 AM on 22 March 2017, our Lasallian Service Learning group met at McDonalds at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City for our 8:00 AM appointment with the group of Teacher Fe Matullano-Lustanas, who is the subject of our group project. We had prepared our presentation slides and the documents needed … More Reflection on Service Learning Project: Sowing the Seeds for the future.

On March 13, 2017, Monday, our group interpellated the group who was reporting their assigned case before our Lassallian Leadership class. On the same day, we also made the presentation of our own case right after their group’s report. I felt that our professor was disappointed but I was doubly disappointed for the performance and … More Reflection: Learning from your mistake.

It was mentioned during the case analysis report in our Lassallian Business Leadership class that the mighty Enron Corporation failed primarily because of its excessive corporate greed. I refuse to believe, however, that its downfall was brought about by corporate greed. I refuse to use the word corporate greed because it does not connote any … More Reflection on Enron Corporation’s Meltdown

“If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.” –  Swami Vivekananda Around 7:00 AM on the 2nd of March 2017, I and my group mates in our Lassallian Business Leadership class met in McDonalds in Mall of Asia in Pasay because we have a schedule first meeting with Teacher Fe … More Reflection on Service Learning Project

“In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” – Immanuel Kant All the while I knew that ethics was purely qualitative and very subjective. In fact, there is no single ethical principle that governs all ethical questions. On … More Reflection on Quantitative Approach to Ethics

Wikipedia defines the expression ‘’Pay it forward’’ as an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying it to others instead of to the original benefactor. Since knowing about this expression many years back, it had become my guiding principle whenever I feel thankful for all the good things that happened to me and to … More Reflection: “Paying Forward” – Sharing the joy of the season.

“We won’t have a society, if we destroy the environment.” – Margaret Mead           Recently, the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources (DENR) of the Philippine Government issued a closure order to twenty-three (23) mining firms and suspension of five (5) others (both big as well as small players) which are operating in various locations … More Reflection on Ethics and Environment

” Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. “ – George Washington Carver  This is Teacher Fe Matullano-Lustanas. Her Linked-In profile says that she has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Arellano University and her Master of Education from Olivarez College.  Presently, she is a public school teacher at La Huerta … More Reflection on Service Learning – “A journey of hope”