Welcome!

Pintig is the Filipino word for heartbeat. It is also the official publication of the employees of CLDH. It has a print version as well as an online version: Pintig Online! That it appears on a blog site is something that I have to interpret yet. In the meantime...

The usual purpose for having a company publication is to spread information across all sectors and all levels in the organization. A noble undertaking, of course. But most employee publications die a natural death because they’re simply not fun to read. They’re boring and straitlaced. No such thing with Pintig.

The editorial staff has only one thing in mind in undertaking this project: fun. Our motto: Life’s too short; eat dessert first!

Pintig Online! is our version of dessert. The kind you get only at CLDH.

You can look at life in CLDH like it were some kind of buffet; you have appetizers, salads, soups, main courses. And dessert! I think you’ll agree with me when I say that there is just too little of dessert that comes our way in life -- anywhere. Which is a shame, really. Personally, I’d rather have an entire room filled with dessert! All kinds! Maybe with a little sprinkling of pizza on the side. And some sushi. But I digress.

The staff of Pintig envisions the stuff of Pintig to be a lot of fun while it informs. It aims to show the humorous along with the serious, even the humorous in the serious. It seeks to make meaning out of the commotion, confloption, distraction, and hodgepodge of information out there. Because you’d be surprised at the amount of information that surrounds you as a member of an organization, and CLDH is not a simple, nor is it a small, organization.

We at Pintig, online and offline, believe that information is key to a stronger workforce. We hope that with this publication, this workforce will not only grow in mutual respect and understanding but, as well, in learning how to laugh at the absurdities that life throws our way. In short, how to pick the sweet from the not-so-sweet.

The online version will have mostly the same articles that will appear in the print, with some web-exclusive items now and again. The cool thing with this version is that it allows comments. See those links down there at the bottom of the post (this article) that says, "Comments? " All you have to do is click on that and post your comments! Comments are, however, regulated. This means all comments pass through me first.

Can you contribute articles? Sure. All you have to do is email me. See the narrow column at the left hand side of this page? Just click on "Pester the Editor" to open your email client. (Scroll up if you can't see the link.) Or, to make things easier for the web-challenged, send your articles to elai.cruz at yahoo.com.ph.

Can you send other things to the editor aside from comments? Sure. It is, after all, a free country.

Enjoy!