Hu-got it?

With the current trend of Pinoy hugot lines, San Miguel Beer contributes its Zero bitterness variant.

Mediation drinks to that!

Terms of Service

During this time of all sorts of contracts before accessing applications online, "Our Daily Bread" Bible reflection came up with this truly Christian agreement: May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give."

Ideal prayer before mediation.

Tattooing Grudges

TRU featured letting go of tattoos and grudges- both embedded and painful.

Mediation is a not so painful way-out, compared to the alternative of a prolonged grudge.

E-mercy power

With all the pushers for emergency power, perhaps they can heed the appeal of Pope Francis for a dash of mercy. The PNP's Chief command that drug users and pushers kill and/or burn down the houses of drug lords is a cheap shot at braggadocio.

Psychology casts a doubt on the masculinity of trying-hard machos. They say there is a link from the milk to beer bottle. Pent-up emos? Good to know during mediation.

Nyhan Syndrome

Not from New York, but an unfortunate disease when an individual involuntarily hurts himself by biting or hitting. The boy featured on GMA NEWS TV had to have
all his teeth pulled!

There are also self-saboteurs in life, who un/knowingly make it more difficult than it already is. Sometimes, they are lucky to get into mediation at the nick of time.

Disciple's Discipline

Heard this at a TV Holy Mass. Truly, a follower follows.

As disputants follow through their agreed compromise.

Fish come

Fshing has gone hi tech, too. Now, a camera attached to a smartphone enables a line fisherman to see how fish react to the bait.

If only a mediator could also foresee dispute settlement!

Celebrating Dies

Take that from an Australian on the "Christianity Works" radio program. He answers why we commemorate defeats in battle- to highlight strength of spirituality more.

Mediation minimizes defeat, too by compromise.

Friday's Apollo 13

At least this Friday the 13th was only on tv. But this NASA to land on the moon was doomed. The three astronauts just whizzed by it. A graver concern was the CO2 accumulation in the space capsule from their breathing.

Such toxic conditions happen in relationships, too. Vents are needed, as in mediation.

Balian (ng buto)

He was the son of Godfrey who crusaded against Saladin the Moor in the movie "Kingdom of Heaven." There, it was mentioned that more than God, the battle was for wealth and land.

They say that it could also be traced to the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ismael, sons of Abraham by different wives.  Nowadays, it involves Isis! Mediating the Bible, anyone?

Borrowing Credit

Not from the bank but the fruits of the previous administration, on Duterte's lap have fallen the Olympic silver medal of Hidilyn Diaz, who admitted training for 4 years in Zamboanga, as luck would again have it; the NAIA skyway opening soon; metro train supplies coming in; goodness, even the Miss U pageant in January next year. Marcos was even credited for Duterte's political leanings, but it was President Cory who appointed him OIC of Davao City in 1986, as Binay of Makati City. Two gone wrong.

Mediation traces both the good and the bad.

Lost in Translation

Atty. Panelo justifies Duterte's decision allowing the Marcos burial in the LNMB by the huge margin with which he won the elections. Say again?

Such rat-ionale! Won't do in mediation.

The Gong Protests Too Much

Pardon, Mr. Shakespeare, but remembered your words when the 2017 National Budget came out. The Office of the President (OP) was given almost P20 B! An Olympic leap from last year's P2B! This, after they conceded early on that a lot of offices and agencies would be removed from the OP. Now, they reason out that we would be hosting Asean.  Plus intelligence funds for the anti-drug war...(The Miss U pageant would even be funded privately, mind you.)

This "clean government" will also do so with our coffers, as well as coffins.

Com-promises

Heard someone mispronounce that word. In a way, compromises are promises to be fulfilled, especially in a mediation settlement.

Slow Eye Movement

As against the Rapid Eye Movement during sleep, the slow mode was measured by
a Kyoto urban planner. He sent subjects to different landscapes around the city and found out that the more structured, planned and peaceful the view, the slower the eye movement.

Peace leads to peace. In mediation, more than the eyes, the mind feels peace.

Na-Obusan

This drug pusher has just lost his supply, in the raging battle being waged by Duterte.
Sadly, more lives are lost, too.

Can't mediate unilaterally. In court, it is called ex-parte. Nowadays, it is departed.

Innovative Nation

NAT GEO features recent inventions that make you say, "Why didn't I think of that?"
Like solar highways, robot snakes for rescues, backpack cellphones composite for reporter- photographers' portable OV vans relaying news to tv stations!

Why then can't we find peace?

Chilly Book Deal

"The 33" told of miners in Chile trapped for months before all were successfully rescued. Down in the tunnels, they learned to share dwindling provisions as well as emotions and lives. But when rescue was eminent, one of them struck a book deal!

Group mediating on that issue, they still meet regularly to this day.

Michaelangelo

One documentary on his life traced his beginnings to a sickly mother so he was sent to a nearby town. There, he was supposed to have recalled, "Along with the milk of my nurse, I received the knack of handling hammer and chisel."

Sometimes, twists and turns of fortune lead to just that!

In Their Mocs

NAT GEO's Great Human Race reinacts how Adam and Eve's descendants lived in the wild. As a concession, the anthropoligists wore moccasins.

Putting ourselves in their shoes makes for better understanding during discussions.

Come Slap With Me

Used to be fly with me, but one Cebu Pac passenger role-played on the cranky flight attendant by slapping one who didn't put the luggage in the overhead bin.

In mediation, there should be no shouting, name-calling and definitely no saPACking.

OLX

Had a creative ad recently. Thought at first for an optical shop, an ob-gyne declared to parents that their baby would be a girl. So a pink nursery is prepared. But a boy is born! Sue the doctor for malpractice? No, sell the nursery pink stuff at OLX online.

Now that's non- litigious problem-solving.

HERO

Seems to be the word of the weak? With the ongoing dispute re the burial of dictator Marcos with the Heroes, now comes QC Councilor Hero Bautista admitting drug abuse and rehabilitation.

At least, the latter admitted his crime, no matter how personal. The former Panggulo was just that- to people's lives and finances up to the present. No GOODwill here, a prerequisite to resolution.

NEW Year's Eve

Never tire of this ETC flix rerun. Especially its message at the end: "There are things we cannot control like calamities.  But we can- forgiveness, second chances, hope in our heart..."

Suggested viewing for disputants.

Bawi at Laban

Duterte is changing the rules of this game show-of force. His unilateral ceasefire not respected by the NPA is now withdrawn. Let the war begin again.

Much like in tango, mediation also needs two persons acting in goodwill and grace.

Panike Time

That's what I tell my daughter when I feel batty re feared scams and spams not the edible kind. Imagine bats flying to and fro in the cave.

When this happens, Dr. Harold Sala has the following tips:
1. Do nothing first.
2. Get advice.
3. Put options on paper.
4. Decide on the best.

"Wait on the Lord. Decisions in panic are often regrettable," he says. Mediators handle them later.

Tanto Mo Ba

This vehicular accident between Garalde, a cyclist and Tanto, an army reservist in his car went really violent, then fatal. The latter had no reservations about shooting the former so many more times than needed to ensure his intention, no matter how provoked. A female student was likewise shot in the melee.

And what did bystanders who could have prevailed over the two do? They cheered them on!

Make-Up Artist

CNN PH's had "Real Talk" on the latest- Quarter-Life Crisis of the 20'somethings. More interestingly, guest was Ning Barcelo, a life coach and a literal make-up artist, who can multi-task by talking to clients about their life's problems while beautifying their faces, too! Surely, no walk-out scenarios of these captive market.

Mediators are also make-up artists in a way.

36O Degrees

That's the vision of dragonflies, according to AHA host Drew Arellano.

Wish they could lend some degrees to narrow-minded disputants.

Wag Na Kayong Baguilat

Teddy, i.e., is the first name of the "Head of the Real Minority" in the Lower House.

No minor issue really. Who will check and balance the "Super Majority" if they also voted their mini me?

Family's Battle for Inheritance

RED's Japanese feature was a video lesson on mediation. A middle-class male doctor is about to marry a rich woman on her second attempt. The woman's grand/father wants the doctor to marry into the family, which in Japan means taking her family name!

Have not followed this soap series but surely is a sudsy, er gutsy proposition.