by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 19, 2020 | Essays
A husband happily eats lunch with his wife and kids when suddenly, he complains of a severe headache. A week later, he’s got a bandage on his forehead, covering a depression caused by a hole in his skull. He’s suffered brain aneurysm, and he’s been back to the...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 19, 2020 | Essays
In 2007, seven cities around the world made the longlist of the potential hosts for the 2016 Summer Olympics. These were Baku, Chicago, Doha, Madrid, Prague, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro. Following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) analysis of the countries’...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Apr 19, 2020 | Essays
‘Ideas worth spreading.’ That’s the slogan of Canadian-based TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), a media organization known for its TED Talk. In its early years, TED only featured prominent people in tech, consistent with its roots in the Silicon Valley. Bill...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 22, 2019 | Essays
According to the data compiled by Speedtest Global Index in April 2018, Iceland has the fastest mobile internet download speed in the world. It scored an average 65.90 Mbps against the global average of 22.61 Mbps. Among the countries in Asia, only Singapore made it...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
“This is not the day I was looking forward to. I certainly did not expect that it would end like this because I’m not good at saying goodbye. Downhill, I was desperately trying to hold back tears. I had been taken in as an employee without any expectations of what...
by Bridge Telva Mapangdol | Jun 16, 2019 | Essays
For Mrs Eleanor Pal-a Telva Mapangdol. I miss you everyday, mama. I love you so much. It has been six years since the wastelands stopped burning. Its blackness is evanescent of the historic menace that made her life tragically a stole and its remnants gave rise...