WHAT A mouthful! I haven’t written a title longer than that.
I just would like to share with you that starting today, I will go to school, which is about 3 kilometers from home, on my new bicycle — the bicycle that blogging bought. I bought it last Saturday and had some practice until Sunday evening. Now, I could feel [...]
MY TWO latest posts describe the gravity of the damage caused by the flood that hit my hometown last Friday. I thought that the image of the wreckage that can be seen along the now so desolate highway would melt the hearts of the people and stimulate them to introspect. I was wrong.
Last Sunday, two days after the [...]
FOUR DAYS after, you can still feel the agony caused by the flood to more than 600 affected families. The following are pictures taken at Purok Maharlika, on the way to our school. According to a friend who works at the Provincial Capitol told me that the flood had caused greater damage in Ladol, a coastal village.
IT HAPPENED again after almost eight years — only, it’s stronger this time.
I thought it wouldn’t rain as hard as it did yesterday. When we arrived from Marbel at about half past three yesterday, the sky was not really dark. After my last class, it started to drizzle. Then the wind started to blow. Soon [...]
THIS MORNING our librarian gave us photocopies of an article from the broadsheet about DepEd’s implementing guidelines on the 6-hour workday for teachers.
I read it carefully and I realized that it actually didn’t shorten the number of hours of work in a day. It only limits the number of hours of classroom teaching to six. The remaining two [...]
I HAVE no right to complain.
In many schools in the country today, teachers have to teach inside classrooms with more than 80 students for more than seven hours a day. They spend their own money for their visual aids and other instructional materials. Their classrooms are neither well ventilated nor sound proofed. Moreover, they teach low [...]
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I WAS surprised that clicks are coming in from Google search results for the keywords “system loss charge.” That’s just a little number of visitors. Very little, in fact. But I am glad that I have helped explain to one or two people who wanted to know what the system loss charge really is.
It’s for [...]
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I WATCHED the Sunday morning show on ABS-CBN Davao this morning and glad to see that the white sand beach resorts of Gumasa in Glan, Sarangani Province were featured and the place was actually compared to Boracay.
Photo from http://www.sarangani.gov.ph
However, the shots taken did not show the beach in its best shape. Driftwoods were very prominent against the bright [...]
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IT WAS certainly a blast.
Until now I am suffering from the effect of the tension I felt on the first day of class. I tried to be at ease with my students but I couldn’t help it. It must be my adrenaline glands that made me feel like there was much energy inside me that was ready to [...]
SCHOOL YEAR 2008-2009 will officially begin tomorrow. And I’m nervous about it.
What makes me nervous is the fact that I will be observed by DepEd supervisors from the regional office. Now, I am busy preparing myself for tomorrow, my lesson, my uniform, and my self.
It will be my first time to teach first year science. [...]
IT'S SARANGANI's 16th Foundation Anniversary. Watch out for updates on the MunaTo Festival 2008, November 27-29, 2008 at the Sarangani Provincial Capitol Park, Alabel, Sarangani Province.
MunaTo is a B'laan word, which means First People, referring to the relics found in Maitum, Sarangani Province that implies the existence of an ancient civilization there in about 500 BC.
