Education

Why Desperate Housewives picked on Philippine medical schools

Though the issue on the Desperate Housewives’ slur about medical schools in the Philippines is now a week old, let me share some of my thoughts.
What could have “inspired” the writers of the show to use the Philippines as a point of reference with regard to inferior medical schools?
I don’t believe the DH writers […]

Rostam Comic Book - bringing the hero to this time

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Over coffee at Dagupeña Restaurant one time, I had the chance to talk with Resty Basa, an authentic Pangasinan historian. Dagupeña, by the way, is a hub for media practitioners in Dagupan City as well as local political leaders.
Tiyo Resty who is a distant relative of mine, was lamenting on how […]

A whole new world for Gem

Alas, my daughter is living in a whole new world now, to pursue the course she picked: International Hospitality Management. She started going to college last June 18.
The sentimental fool that I am - I cried and cried on the day we dropped her off with her things at the condo unit where she […]

On ugly photos and things she wants

While reviewing the photos she took with her phone cam, my daughter sighed deeply.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” I asked.
“I wish I had a nice digi cam so I can take better photos,” she replied.
I did not answer. What did she expect me to say, after digging deep into my pockets the day she enrolled […]

Candles burnin’

“It is better to light just one little candle than to stumble in the dark…”
The day after my daughter was discharged from the hospital following her bout with panic attack, we both heard mass at the St. John’s Cathedral. This was the first time in a long while that we heard mass again in […]

Just google it?

Nowadays doing research is a piece of cake for students. They have all the conveniences right at their homes. During my time, we had to stay long hours in the library, sometimes even get on the line just to reserve a book overnight. But now, with the advent of the Internet, anyone wishing to […]

Raising children with love

I don’t claim to be an authority in Child Psychology. The only background in Pyschology that I can boast of is my three units in General Psychology in college.
As I was raising my growing children years before, (my two sons now in their 20s and daughter in her teens), I realized that having background in […]

Rearing, loving a child

I am not usually the prying type of neighbor. I maintain friendly relations with my neighbors, but not to the point where I would go “neighboring” and make “chika”. I want to leave them to their privacy in the same way that I too, want them to leave me in mine.
Much as I want to […]

What to do…what to do

I woke up today at 5:00 a.m., jolted by the thought of my daughter’s problematic investigatory project in Science.
The whole afternoon last Sunday, she was fumbling with her experiment together with Kim, her groupmate. Too bad, the leader of her group, Pauline, is sick with dengue and is recovering at the hospital. Worse thing is […]

Submission of UPCAT application deadline today

Today, my daughter, along with her classmates, is submitting her application for the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT). I am sure thousands others out there from Non-Metro Manila schools are doing so too now, the deadline date for submission. Deadline for submission of Metro Manila schools was last June 21. Examination dates […]