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I have known my niece Wanda since she was three years old. That’s a considerably long time since she’s now 28 years old. She is a teacher who majored in Special Education (SPED), and has been teaching very young kids for more than 5 years now.
She has received an invitation for interview with VSO, [...]

It happens at least once a year, this flood. It happens when the rains come in the middle of the year and the creek that borders our subdivision floods, and if the tide is high the water from Manila Bay comes in and meets the flood, the water rises in a matter of minutes and [...]

Change of template again, as you may have noticed. This one is called Artificial Intelligence — which may translate as “Kunwari Matalino” (trans. Pretending to be intelligent) in Tagalog. I like the way it spreads out and its pastel blue shades. It’s kinda white and stark, but if I put in a picture or [...]

A cursory look at this pay period’s payslip reminded me of how much this government is making out of MY hard earned pesos. Rough computations led me to conclude that in the two years that I had been working since we came back to Manila from Mindanao, I had given the government no less than [...]

People who regularly commute by bus in Metro Manila like myself have encountered these individuals a few times while enroute. The ubiquitous peanut vendor, the junkfood/chicharon/bottled water vendor. There’s the young girl who gives you a slip of paper that tells you her name and how she’s sending herself to school by selling sweets at [...]