Caritas Segunda Mana : Donations-in-kind program of Caritas Manila
It’s pretty easy to accumulate all sorts of junk when you have kids. I only have one, and although he’s not the” gimme-gimme” type, he does tend to get attached to the toys that...
Category: Odds and Ends
Manila Science Entrance Exam Results 2015: Manila Science exams results 2015
The results of the Manila Science Admission Test (MSAT) 2015 are out! I had accompanied a former office colleague to the Manila Science High School in Taft Avenue, Manila, to see if her niece...
Holy evolution, Batman! : DepEd module leans dangerously close to favoring Creationism
Don’t believe everything you read, not even when it comes from a student textbook. A friend recently forwarded to me a Facebook post calling out the Department of Education (DepEd) for an apparent Creationist...
Lessons (the Literal Kind) from Pope Francis’s 2015 Visit to the Philippines
I nearly got lost when my mother took me to Luneta to hear Pope John Paul II say Mass on February 1981. I joined the unprecedented crowd that thronged the same venue to witness...
Philippine passport renewal at DFA NCR West, SM City Manila: My experience
Every once in a while, Teacher Mommy, like many hapless residents of our beautiful islands, is subjected to the discombobulating and hair-pulling ordeal of transacting with government offices in order to obtain some documentary...
How to obtain an NBI clearance in 30 minutes (or less!)
Transacting with government offices rates highly on my list of unpleasant experiences, particularly if the government agency happens to be the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). I shudder to remember the quaint early days...
Teacher Mommy’s Learning Goals for 2015
New Year’s resolutions. We love making them, we hate breaking them, but hey, we’re only human. A 2007 survey by time management firm FranklinCovey found that 35 percent break their resolutions by end of...
