of appearances

Amidst the men and women in dark suits at the buffet breakfast line this morning, was an older gentleman, modestly dressed, in comparison to the other delegates. Wearing rubber shoes, pants and a faded collared shirt, he came in with my boss' boss. When we were introduced, he laughingly reminisced that the last time he was at ADB headquarters was in 1980, "you probably weren't even born," he said. I smiled. He was right.

I wondered about his attire, and the fact that he wasn't as formally dressed as the other delegates. For one who was dressed in the clothes she slept in (sshhh), it didn't really matter to me. I just found it amusing, coming from a university whose best professors came to class in slippers. Turns out the incognito dude of the day was TL Sankar, energy guru and headmaster to some of India's best and brightest.

Some people transcend image. Don't you just love it when you meet distinguished, wonderfully low-profile people (the delightful aberrations to the norm of powerdressing)?

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The coverboy for Clean Energy. Glenn David in silhouette!

The host of the Idea!s planning session in Batangas gamely posed for the camera, and lent his silhouette to the cause of clean energy. Thank you, thank you Glenn! The above image was used as the cover for a couple of the discussion draft reports for ADB's Clean Energy Week. Silhouette image photographed by Dan Matutina and enhanced by Bernice de Leon.