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Kindly write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

1. I would love to travel!the top destinations that I want to visit are France(c'mon,its the City of Love!who wouldn't want to go there?plus the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum!),Spain, England(relive the 1800's era and pretend that I am one of the characters of Julia Quinn's novel) and lastly, Italy.

2. I get this craving to watch ghost and horror movies and paranormal series.its like ...

"Respond, don't react!" This had been one of the well-meaning advices I got from a friend when I first started teaching. What with all the many things we had to deal with in my profession - students with learning and behavior problems (because they have found the school a great avenue for expressing their need for attention at home), parents who seem to be so sold out about their children's intelligence that they would fight for it come hell or high water, and those administrators who ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 8, 2010

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING forward for a long time to travel the whole island of Cebu in a long and continuous journey. When I was a young man and plenty of time then, that was more than twenty-five years ago, I used to go out to the far reaches of the province to the north and into the south, yet I was not able to complete that dream trip.


Then on June 28 and 29, 2009, my life-long dream of going on a circumferential ...

When you are together with that special someone, you pretend to ignore that person.
But when that special someone is not around, you might look around to find them.
At that moment, you are in love.



Although there is someone else who always makes you laugh,
your eyes and attention might go only to that special someone.
Then, you are in love.


Although that special someone was supposed to have called you long back, to let you know ...

There is something more profound and lofty in the thought of having friends around. I don't just mean the mere set of friends you brag about because they are inside your Facebook friends' list or they are your followers on Twitter. I meant those kinds that would sit patiently for you whenever you need to be heard about, even when you only have ice cream to eat.

As I was on my way home a realization carefully sank in. I am actually the luckiest person in the world for having such ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 1, 2010

IT HAD BEEN A year already when I first climbed Mount Babag by way of Ernie's Trail, a steep and challenging route named after my climbing buddy – Ernie Salomon. That was on August 17, 2008. Since then I have climbed her twenty-three times alone or with a group. I aim to complete a full year cycle by climbing her again on August 23, 2009. This would be my twenty-fourth incursion there.

I brought two hawk feathers ...

As a student some years back, I had never really liked tests, whether they are assigned or those kinds that leave you cursing your teachers (the pop quizzes) nor those periodical tests. At a younger age, I would stay up all night, thinking about the many pages and fretting about how to let them stay in my ever-unusually absent mind. I hated the way my Social Studies quizzes were constructed. They always made me memorize so many dates and events. Back then, I never really liked Social Studies, unlike ...