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...
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Money matters, especially during a zombie apocalypse: Teaching money in homeschool math
A horde of brain-devouring zombies is barreling through the now-desolate city. These are not the slow zombies of George A. Romero film lore. We’re talking sprinting, galloping, going from zero to 60 type of...
Marvelous Mumbai travel: The Maximum City on minimum effort, Day Three.
It is 8:30AM on Day Three of our do-it-yourself Mumbai travel, and my son and I are having breakfast at the hotel restaurant. Our flight back to Chennai leaves at 2:45PM. Allowing time for...
Marvelous Mumbai trip: The Maximum City on minimum effort, Day Two.
Having completed an improvised walking tour of the Maximum City on the first day of our marvelous Mumbai trip, we headed out on four wheels on Day Two. I’d turned to the tripadvisor community...
Marvelous Mumbai travel : The Maximum City on minimum effort, Day One.
Arriving at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport’s (CSIA) domestic terminal on a bright April morning, my son and I headed straight for the prepaid taxi counter, one among several transport providers that greet travelers...
Incredible India travel: Four museums, two roadtrips, and a wedding
With schools recently opened, pupils can count on one perennial topic for their first English composition of the new academic year: “What did you do last summer?” I always took this question to mean,...
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...
Celebrate World Read Aloud Day on March 4, 2015 with the National Library of the Philippines
Reading aloud helped tremendously when I was teaching my boy how to read. I would sit him on my lap and read to him, while I moved my index finger under each spoken word....
Kung Hei Fat Choi 2015: Chinese New Year 2015 in Binondo, Manila, and toy shopping at 168 Mall in Divisoria
My son saw his first dragon dance and lion dance in 2009 during Chinese New Year festivities hosted by a supermarket in Makati City. It was only my second time to see these dances...
