This post is three days late. But the thoughts expressed here were those on the 1st of May, yet I didn’t find the time to write them down. On May 1st, I felt great when I woke up, because, well, it’s a free day, a reason to celebrate! Moreover, a major diplomatic event that I…
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Happy New Year (2023)
Dearies, I would like to greet you all a blessed, peaceful and prosperous New Year! No lengthy post this time; just a reminder for us, as we start the new year to: Thank you to everyone and everything that became part of my 2022. It was an interesting year, with bumps, twists, and turns. But…
Kris Kringle
In my small team composed of mainly young professionals in their early 20s, the idea to exchange a small gift (with a certain price range) each week came up in November. So, everyone was given three codes, one for each week and we agreed to give the following gifts: 1st week of December – something…
Penultimate Month
November was not good to me. For some reasons, one unpleasant thing after another happened. A major project that I had been working on for over a month got postponed, then cancelled despite my efforts to make it push through. Then, three days after that, I had a major rift with my daughter who wanted…
Of Chalk, Presentations, Experiments and Lessons
At the end of a really busy workday today, my thoughts led me to my teachers who made me love learning and the quest for knowledge and skills. I’ve had numerous teachers from preschool to graduate school and until now, I still remember many of them with fondness, still chuckle at the funny classroom scenarios,…
What are you good at?
In a not so recent past, somebody at work asked me “What are you good at? What do you love doing?” Under normal circumstances, I could readily answer those questions. But at that time, I uttered no words. I couldn’t say anything. I didn’t know how to answer. It was at that moment when I…
Sapagkat ang Pag-ibig ay Pagpapalaya
Sa araw na ito Sa araw na ito, sisimulan ko na Ang humakbang papalayo sa’yo. Sa araw na ito, napagtanto ko na Na hindi maaring magkurus ang ating landas Nang higit pa sa aking ninanais. Sa araw na ito, bubuksan ko na ang aking mga mata Sa katotohanan na may mga damdamin na kailangang isantabi,…
My IELTS Experience
I took and passed the International English Language Testing System or IELTS administered by the British Council in 2015. That time, I had an ongoing application for an International School in Saudi Arabia (the same period that I was taking the third level of the Foreign Service Officer Examination). My IELTS experience almost never crossed…