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Let's set the record straight. I HAD NEVER REALLY ASPIRED TO BE A TEACHER. I remembered full well that when our Language teacher in Grade 3 would ask us what we would want to be when we grow up (you know those seemingly endless essays that took forever to write and are repetitive because each grade, until probably when you reach high school, your teachers would ask you to write about them), I had always written: a COMPUTER ENGINEER or a REPORTER but never a TEACHER.

Yet somehow, it ...

To a class of academic students who knew nothing about drafting because for some reason, it was not included in their lesson, teaching the concept of perspective is never a walk in the clouds. This was what came to my mind as I searched through previous concrete encounters on the word "perspective". How else does one teach such a very abstract concept?

I then remembered an example my great philosophy teacher used in summer class when I took my masters. He made use of the ...

Like a movie flick, two entities meet. The lover and her beloved. Their love story was that of any typical relationships: the lover meets her beloved and just as any well-orchestrated plot, their relationship was never the same again after that.

But wait, I'm just not going to let you in my carefully shrouded, privately veiled love life (as though there ever is one). I'm just going to usher you into my addiction of the internet and my deeply laid plans to finally rehabilitate myself. ...

I did this when I was a bit younger. I even argued a lot with my grandfather about it. I can't believe I would come to do this myself when I reach this age. This realization came in just days ago while I was settling a trouble one of my students did.

It used to be that my grandfather would argue with me how different the children in our generation and in theirs were. "In our generation, children would never do this".... is often the opening lines of what seemed to be a call ...

They say that no matter how far you travel, it only appears as if you never left. Sooner or later, after all your travels, you will find your feet leading you to where you came.

This blog wouldn't be about travelling but a little part of it would be. I have never really travelled outside the country. The mere thought of leaving home, being away from one's family, away from the comfort zones and away from all the familiar things I have grown used to, just scares me. I always thought, ...

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IT IS FATHER'S DAY, June 21, 2009.

I am going up to Mount Babag today and I am alone.

Yeah, alone...

...again.

I have no problem walking alone. I find good therapy in the silence and I love the sound of my voice. I talk to myself. Yes, hum a song. Imitate a bird call. That's what you do when you're bored.

From my home, I rode a public jitney in the ...

Coffee drinkers are more likely to see dead people



According to a research, heavy coffee drinkers are more likely to have hallucinations or feel "the presence of dead people,". A UK-based study quizzed 200 students on their caffeine intake and found those with the highest consumption were also more prone to report seeing, or hearing, things that were not there. Those who consumed ...