Monumental Challenge

In a docu Multi-Mental Challenge on the Big Ben, engineers worked on the bell, building, and even the birds that crash on it. What a precise symphony!

Mediation is likewise a joint effort among the mediator, the disputants and other concerned parties.

Mon Terror

Like Paris, Metro Manila is also in fear of a terrorist called Montero. This is the Mitsubishi sports utility vehicle that has 97 cases of sudden unintended acceleration.
Mitsubishi of course denies wrongdoing and technical malfunction. Victims and the Department of Trade and Industry are for product recall, among other things.

Truly, a third party technical group is needed to settle this deadly dispute.

Chinese Mediation

Singapore was reported to be offering to mediate between Taiwan and Mainland China. It is to be noted that these three countries are of Chinese descent.

Sometimes, families can settle their differences, after falling into disagreements.

Corny Ito

The Cornetto series of ads is so light to the eyes, mind and heart. Its message is affordability.

So is mediation.

A Mother's Will

This was the theme of a DIVA movie that featured a mother's ten-year search for her kidnapped daughter. She was smart as well as persistent, drawing from her career of photography. She took pictures of schoolchildren and while doing so, would engage girl subjects in conversation. Finally, maternal instinct drew her close to her long-lost daughter.

In like manner, there is only so much that a mediator can do. The disputants have the solution in their hands.

Fact Checking

The onset of election season is one reason for fact-checking.  However, it could also be open to treason, leading to some fat check-ing.

Mediation is also into fact-checking, but not fat check-ing.

Crooked Hearts

This movie on AMC depicted a family in conflict, symbolically called the Warrens. Despite the father's usual practice of toasting their milestones, he kept a stash of old love letters from someone else. The eldest son burned down their house, saving those letters only. Later, while the two younger sons burned the letters, one of them  was hit by a passing vehicle as the fire scattered. In the end, this son's list of his rules on life was given an additional "Forgive."

Most, if not all families have these twists and turns, in varying degrees of intensity. All have to forgive too for the wars to end.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

This movie was like Downton Abbey's excursion to India. Common actors in updated clothes met the still stringent social mores of the East. This time, twas the Brits who told the bachelor hotel owner to "step up and beside" his girfriend whose family didn't approve of him.

There is universality of issus in mediation.

Yours, Mine and Ours

Watched this remake on Star Movies regarding former HS Prom King and Queen getting married years and their respective children later. Expect trouble from the joint brood of the Admiral and a free spirit.

Like sides to a dispute.

Garage Sale Mystery

Diva featured this insightful movie on the perils of selling old stuff to neighbors. It is consoling, too that ours is not the only crime-infested city where thieves can pose as buyers.

While we are called to live our neighbors, reality dictates we take precaution, too.