What do you give to someone who has everything?A few Christmases ago, Synergeia Foundation president Milwida Guevara found herself worrying what to give to Washington Sycip for Christmas.

Apart from being a well-known figure in the business sector, Wash is one of the reasons Synergeia can do so much work in the education sector, Milwida says. (If you are interested in reading more about this very interesting man, read my favorite professor’s blog post on him here. Butch Dalisay finished his biography on Wash Sycip just this year.) After agonizing about her problem, Milwida bought Wash a toy train that moves on its tracks. You know the type, either your son wants one or your husband does.

“He was so happy with it, he played with it in his office and called his staff to look at the train,” Milwida told me, laughing.

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MY apologies to our non-Filipino speaking readers. This is an article in Filipino sent to me by stock broker-friend Rodney Lim right after the Makati stand-off last Friday, which affected the stock market and the foreign exchange market. I could translate it to English, but a lot of the funny stuff will get lost in translation. This is just for laughs guys; nothing is factual in this article. Enjoy the week ahead!

According to sources from an asylum in Mandaluyong, this mobile phone conversation happened in Manila Pen.

Senator Trillanes: Pare, nasan ka na, nakareserve na ako ng room para sa iyo dito. Five star pa ang accommodations ko.

Royette Padilla: Pare pasensiya na pero kausap ko pa si Pareng Bill Clinton, inaayos namin ang mga supporters na babarikada diyan.

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