Annamanila

Wednesday, 04 November 2009 08:30 AM

Myrna Rodriguez Co, who blogs under the name Annamanila, is a 66-year old retiree from the University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries, where she worked for 40 years as researcher/writer/editor/publications officer. She has to her name over 50 books, manuals, and periodicals on small business and entrepreneurship development, including the UP centennial casebook series entitled, Dreamers, Doers, Risk-takers (Vol. 1-4) and the Small Entreprenews, a quarterly journal which won an Anvil Award for outstanding external publication given by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines.

Today, her blogsite at ode2old.blogspot.com is widely regarded as a source of inspiration for older people to walk the “final miles” with hope, cheerfulness, and abiding sense of awe and wonder as well as to welcome new experiences, take up second careers, and embrace new technology.

Now a freelance editor and writer, she regularly contributes articles to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Her book “In Another Dress,” a compilation of selected stories and essays from her blogsite, published by Extempo Publications, was launched last November.

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Articles by Annamanila

Graduates who choose the road less taken
22 March 2010 For the graduate, the college diploma is a passport to a dream career – fulfilling and profitabl…
Women who repair cars (Women take man-sized jobs)
17 March 2010 "It" refers to fields of work formerly exclusively earmarked for men. Welding. Electronics repair.…
Expat files: Adobo as metaphor
14 March 2010 I can follow recipes really well and somehow I have mastered kare-kare. My version of it has ea…
Tsokolate mmm!
13 March 2010 Ang mga Mehikano daw ang nag-imbento ng batirol -- isang kitchen implement na gawa sa kahoy, may u…
Halo-halo many years before Triple V
08 March 2010 I also spent a lot of time nostalgizing with old classmates, so many of whom, like me, now live in…
The Guy-and-Pip Syndrome
07 March 2010 Mine was not a popular choice, however. Most of my contemporaries preferred the other love tea…
Buhay OFW: Semana Santang patago, atbp.
07 March 2010 Bilang OFW, ang mga mensaheng ganito na may "well" ay nakakatulong para gumaling, lumakas agad, at…
Iba pa ring mamalengke sa palengke!
04 March 2010 Nguni’t iba pa rin ang palengke. Binabalik-balikan ko ito … lalo na kung may malaking kaina…
Election bwa-hahaha!
17 February 2010 Ordinarily, however, jokes are par for the election course. Way back in 1997, “eraptions” see…
Rage not against the dying of the light
04 February 2010 Have the stars dropped out from the skies? Has the Sentinel lost its lamp? The generations that …
Goodbye but why?
04 February 2010 Most ambassadors frequent Malacanang receptions, high-society functions, cultural to-dos. Ambassa…
Green candidate also wants to uplift plight of medical workers
16 January 2010 Thus, Legarda is on target when she presents herself as a green candidate. Many agree. Popular c…
Voting wisely at the local government level
03 January 2010 If you are anywhere like me, you would have also made clear-cut choices on your bet for mayor and …
Conversation with my sons
31 December 2009 As my sons and I watched one campaign ad after another, I thought it was a fine opportunity to tak…
People of the lie in Maguindanao
13 December 2009 Could it be, on the other hand, that I define the good life a bit otherly than the Pinoy-everyman…
Defining the Pinoy at election time
19 November 2009 The [[Philippines]] is an underdeveloped country. More precisely, we are an underdeveloped co…