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Archive for December, 2018

Nexus is moving to its new nexus soon

December 28, 2018 By: jessicazafra Category: Announcements, Technology No Comments →

From our friends at Nexus:

On 26 October, Nexus celebrated the topping-off of the Nexus Center, the new headquarters of Nexus Technologies. The new HQ is along Metropolitan Avenue in Makati City. By early 2019, the entire Nexus and Nexus subsidiary bneXt will move to the 11-storey Art Deco building with eight floors of office and commercial spaces and conference facilities, plus three floors of parking.

Auschwitz and Its Monsters, an excerpt from Twisted Travels

December 12, 2018 By: jessicazafra Category: Books, Places, Traveling 3 Comments →

On a gorgeous spring morning, so early in the day that the hotel hasn’t started serving breakfast, my guide picks me up for a long drive to the suburbs. It is the perfect day for a field trip. The sun is shining, but there is a cool breeze. The trees are a lush green and the flowers are in bloom.

Everything is bursting with life, and until I stand before the iron gate with its monstrous motto, I am trying not to think that we have come to a place of death.

Read it in the Inquirer.

Writing this piece took the longest time—not the actual writing, but working up the nerve to sit down and write it. You have to do justice to the subject, but you cannot be sentimental. I apologize for my failures.