Several questions have cropped up recently regarding the Honor System to the the extent that one is left to wonder whether there is really a need for it or it is just another pain in the neck. Some have taken it as a kind of a Damocles’ sword hanging over their head. As one cadet […]
My mother told me that the best journey in life is the one that takes us back home! I must be dreaming . . . As I am entering the fortified gates of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), the feeling of nostalgia wraps me intensely with memories of hardship. I remember summer camp, when I […]
Excerpt from the book: “A Time to Heal – Bloodbath at Pata Island, Sulu” Still on sale! February 12, 2022: It has been four decades and a year now, the incident is totally banished in the dustbin history of the AFP. Our memory fading. Nobody can recall anymore the 119 souls who perished in Pata […]
by J. Irving Haha I cannot resist answering back this editorial from Inquirer. I recently wrote the commander of the Army Cyber Battalion: “Bakit kahit sa cyber, talo tayo sa propaganda?” (Why is that even in cyber, we are losing in propaganda?) I know, the Army is becoming the favorite punching bag in shaming somebody […]
Story #1: I was serving as G3 (Operations Officer) of the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Magsaysay in the year 2000 when Balikatan Exercise was held there. After a day of a hot and humid maneuver, a group of Filipino and American soldiers gathered in one of the tents. A Filipino officer brought out a […]
I do not mean or refer to Parlade as a popular or star-studded general shooting indiscriminately, specially red-tagged adversaries. Instead, I am alluding to him as a meteor, a shooting star that you can see in the night sky! And we all know how hard it is to find one as we need to look […]
I am in shock! https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2021/1/6/MMDA-Chief-Danilo-Lim-dies.html? The last time I saw Sir Danny Lim was in June of 2019 when my newly created Cybersecurity company, the Kerberus Corporation, rendered a call to him at MMDA Head Office. During the meeting, he introduce me by saying, “Ito si Jess, isa sa mga alaga ko sa Jolo!” I […]
“The three things that stop people more than anything else does from achieving their goals: criticizing, complaining, and blaming. These are the three horsemen of failure.” David DeNotaris, Author and Motivational Speaker At this point, much have been said about retired Gen Ricardo “Dick” Morales, the President/CEO of PhilHealth appointed by Pres. Duterte only last year to […]
Let me start by saying, “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” This is according to Jim Rohn, a successful entrepreneur and motivational speaker. THE REAL DEAL There are so many fake news these days. The picture above is a screen grab from a Disaster […]
Why Kerberus? This name came up in the search for a computer term that befits a cybersecurity company. Kerberos stood out among the suggested names in the balloting process, which included names, such as: FiGeCSi (5th Generation Cybersecurity Solutions Incorporated), Binary Defense, Cypher Techn0l0gy Solutions, Ones and Zeroes Security and C5 (for Command & Control, […]
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