My “not-so” good experience with the ROTC and now they want to put it back in the Curriculum? If you are my age, then you probably had two military trainings during your academic life. One is the CAT or Citizen’s...
Los seres humanos son por naturaleza curiosos. Que no se detendra hasta conseguir que sus respuestas a sus interminables preguntas. A veces soy victima de ello. Ni siquiera se por que siempre me pregunta por esta pregunta de “¿Ha tenido...
I lost two of my friends from cancer in the past. One is our high school friend and clique who earned his angel’s wings last 2001 from Brain Cancer and the other is also a friend in the seminary who...
At around 8:50 pm (Manila time) on September 12, 2001, I arrived home from school and saw my family watching CNN. Everyone at home were so quiet as if they were hypnotized by the scenes on Television showing the North...
It was on September 16, 1994 when I joined a group of young people that changed my life forever. Before I was this “super strong, proud and almighty” jerk that no one could ever touch, no one could bend and...
It was this very same quarter of 2006 when the three Super Typhoons hit the Quezon Province and Bicol Region, crippling the economy of both region and rendering thousands of Filipinos homeless, jobless and hopeless. It was a year ago...
Rainy season is already here and it has been raining in our place everyday from late afternoon until morning. The toads and frogs croaking in the pond, the crickets making their noises, ducks wading in the murky waters and people...
When I was a 3rd year proper in nursing, I did not take the final exam in my Socio-anthropology class because my professor was so engrossed with objective type exam. You know what I mean: matching type, true or false,...
Today was my most embarrassing moment. Ooops lets make that my most humiliating experience ever. I have been humiliated many times that in hindsight I just laugh at it instead of getting bitter. Humiliation? There were so many. I have...
I woke up today having seven messages in my phone. 2 were from my college batch mates and 5 were from Nursing students. All messages were in interrogative form: “Mzta na?”.(how are you?) Of course, I did not reply as...