Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
Graduate school just started and already, I am on full speed. I am taking up two courses this semester and it is demanding. I am looking at the course guide and I am mentally highlighting words and phrases including case study, tutor-marked assignments, class observations, and group discussions. I have …
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” – John Locke
Three organizations joined forces on August 16 in holding a storytelling session with children of barangay Looc, Mandaue City that highlighted the importance of sharks. The storytelling session served as a post activity in relation to the National Sharks Summit held last August 14-15 at the Capitol Social Hall. The …
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
When I was working as a social development worker (under the Strategic Corporate-Community Partnership for Local Development program, a joint initiative of the Philippine Business for Social Progress and GIZ or the German Agency for International Cooperation), I met a Dutch development expert named Nanda Ritsma, who lives in Tagbilaran, …
“Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The squeaks and squeals of the two mutants living in the room adjacent to our bedroom in this 250-square-meter hotel apartment disrupt my sleep every single morning. They wake up just in time when the sun rises in the east. That’s 5:30 a.m. Every. Single. Freaking. Morning. Insomnia is my …
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Here’s the other half of my favorite Filipino storybooks: 6. Ang Pambihirang Sombrero Written and illustrated by the same author of Dindo Pundido (Jomike Tejido), Ang Pambihirang Sombrero (which I will translate as The Amazing Hat) is magic and splendor and dreams all packaged in one book with a little …
