Avengers: End Game

This 3-hour film is being shown for 24 hours in cinemas.

If only our courts would function likewise, perhaps their dockets would not be so clogged. Meantime, there's mediation to help out about those mean times.

Fr. Rocky Evangelista

With a childhood much like his name, Fr. Rocky was likewise saved by the Salesians of Don Dosco. In turn, he has transformed street children into productive individuals. Three things he asks them beforehand:
1. Do you accept you are poor?
2. Do you want to do something about it?
3. Are you willing to obey the rules?

Mediators could ask the same of disputants.

Ice Hockey

The Philippines surprisingly lorded over this game in a recent Asean tournament.

You never know the capacity of disputants for goodwill unless nurtured in mediation.

France's vermin

This was the reference to gypsies in a CinemaEurope film about the time of Hitler's Jews. They have survived and as far back as 1997, gypsies hovered over the Notre Dame area.

Such language and bias have no place in mediation.

Half and Half

A well-meaning Kiwanian colleague brought us some Ginseng Coffee which really tastes like soil! Started giving them away with the advice to add a lot of cream and (brown) sugar. Till i followed my own advice and mixed one-half part of it with one-half part of a 3-in-1 coffee sachet.

Successful coffee mediation!

Sweet Tooth, Green Thumb

Title of Gene Gonzalez' article got us to thinking. We now have bluetooth and eyes can also be green with envy.

As mediation deals with, at times.

Theory of Everything

It chronicles the remarkable battle of Stephen Hawkings against all odds, when "there's next to nothing but the brain that works."

Puts disputants to shame.

He's Not Just That Into You

Alibi 2 in this funny take on relationships in Africa: "Maybe he forgot the number of your hut or was eaten by a lion!"

Ex-cuses abound in mediation.

Full Moon

It may not cause luna-cy but "repression of the moon's gravitational influence brings about social tension, disharmony and bizarre results," says a recent study. Florida police records, for instance, show an increasing number of assaults and murder cases around the Full Moon.

Not a very credible alibi in mediation, though.

Color Blind

Still on our Sight Series, an Inquirer Young Blood contributor Niza Mae Canedo recalls the travails of a childhood steeped in being "morena." Hence, she vows to raise children blind to color.

And to status, finances, etc. mediators remain neutral as well.