I have mentioned before that taking up a degree in Mechanical Engineering was my first option. When I was still a little girl, my father was working at a local chemical plant while trying to finish his Mechanical Engineering degree. I saw him working on his school projects and from my point of […]

When I was still in grade school, I sometimes overhear conversations between my parents and their visitors. There were times when someone offered them to get a term life insurance. But upon hearing those words, they would be appalled and treat the topic as a taboo. My parents weren’t the only ones […]

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I finally went home to the Philippines a few weeks ago and got to spend some time with my now 3-year old daughter. I did my best to spend quality times with her - making a play house from paper, making paper dolls, acting as her make-up and fashion model, playing hide and seek, […]

When I was still a little girl we needed a fence installation for privacy and to keep all those stray chickens and pigs from our little garden. A bamboo fence was more than enough until cases of theft started to increase. Peeping toms and undies thief made the matters worse. Now, there are […]

Encounter #1:
I’ve been impressed but humbled by the blind people here in Japan.  They go to work, race you to the train stations, and they’re all alone!  But despite having those walking sticks and those yellow protruding road guides, I believe that they get through each day with the help of other people. And I’m […]

Lots of something hanging at the subway train station in Shin-Osaka. This is a bit blurry because I didn’t stop long enough to take the picture.