TALES FROM A TAXI CAB DRIVER IN SINGAPORE
We met some people in Singapore. We even encountered ourselves. After we took a bus from Bencoolen Street and alighted at One Fullerton, we made a decision in a heart beat that we need to postpone the...
View ArticleABOUT LAST WEEKEND
This was how God greeted us last Saturday noon when we viewed Him from our porch… It was a sunshiny day too perfect to go to the Island. It was a long weekend, by the way, because last Friday, 16th...
View ArticleSOMETHING ABOUT THANK YOU
Feeding the ego or lauding the soul? Either way, I know perception is relative. I’m posting these compiled proofs of GRATITUDE because I’M PROUD not of their praises but of the fact that GRATEFULNESS...
View Article10 THINGS I RELEARNED FROM MY FIRST IELTS EXPERIENCE
It might be a simple and petty exam for some but it was an experience for me. I took the International English Language Testing System exam–ACADEMIC (the other type is General Training), offered by the...
View ArticleCHRISTMAS BREAK 2011 DAY 2 : ULINGAN, TONDO
18 December, 2011. Sunday. 2nd day of our days off from work in Penang. *Arrival and Day 1 to follow. Prelude : People who have been chronically exposed to coal dust of about 15 to 2o years are at risk...
View ArticleLESSONS FROM THE TREN EXPERIENCE
When you’re unfamiliar to a place and you choose to take the unknown, you have to be ready to digest the consequences. This thought dawned on me when my mom suggested for us to take a train ride from...
View ArticleLOOKING AT THE BRIGHTER SIDE
“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and in such a speed…It feels an impulsion…this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind the clouds,...
View ArticleCANNONBALL
It’s already past noon when we arrived in Penang Botanical Garden one Sunday this May and despite the Malaysian sun was scorching hot, I did not pass the chance to admire the Cannonball trees again....
View ArticleRANDOM THOUGHTS : FIRST OF JUNE
En route to one part of the island, I captured this advertisement mounted on grab handles in a commuter bus that Tina and I ride daily, the Rapid Penang Bus. It says EAT. PLAY. LOVE. For a moment, it...
View ArticleTHE STATE OF BEING GRATEFUL
“The clinical definition of gratitude is the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself; it is a general state of thankfulness and/or appreciation.” (sourced via NCBI) I published this...
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