WHEN MY sister who now lives in Bulacan went home to celebrate her birthday with us, we decided to take a trip to the white sand beaches of Gumasa in the town of Glan here in Sarangani Province. The whole family was there to share the fun. And there I ...
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LET ME tell you how to acquire a professional driver's license in the Philippines based on my experience at the Land Transportation Office (LTO). Okay, I just had my professional driver's license. With the help of a fixer. No, I didn't intend to hire the services of a fixer, nor do promote dealing with one. As ...
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I LOVE the outdoors. Just this weekend that passed, I made a noteworthy expression of that love as I took the trail to the summit of Mt. Matutum. Together with Team Bundol, I braved the steep slopes of Mt. Matutum to reach its peak, 2,270 meters above sea level in ...
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GOD GIVES you something and you let out a close fist instead of an open palm. All the blessings God gave you fell of your tight fist. You ended up getting nothing. God is generous and because of that, I have always resolved to keep my hands open and ready to ...
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Q: WHAT COULD be worse than asking someone to guess your age and then he gives you a figure that's ten years more than your real age? A: When he is simply giving an honest opinion -- that you really look older than your age. I ADMIT that since I could ...
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WHAT IF you'll die now? Have you ever thought about it? Let's deal with it because we are all getting there; it is not something someone rich, famous, influential, intelligent, beautiful, good, or well-loved can evade. We will all die eventually. The crucial question is, are we ready for it? To answer ...
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I ACTUALLY don't know why I gave this post that title. Haha. Well, anyway, yeah, I am trying to live healthy. I love vegetables but I am not fond of eating fruits, but lately, I found myself craving for citrus fruits and pineapple. I wish I will reap the benefit ...
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WHEN I was a kid, my favorite Bible Story was that of David and how -- with his sling and a stone -- he defeated the mighty Philistine giant, Goliath, and saved the people of Israel. From then on, I viewed David as a hero and realized that it is not who ...
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WE ALWAYS put the blame on the deeply-rooted problem of corruption in the government as the culprit for all the crises we are facing, but I think that there is one thing far worse than that. It is apathy. What could be worse than seeing problems around us and not ...
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WHEN SIR Rolando and I went to the Barangay Hall of Poblacion Alabel yesterday to follow up on the support we are asking for our Bottle School Project, we noticed that travelling merchants were already starting to put up their stalls at the vacant lot beside the Gymnasium. Then I ...
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IN ORDER to encourage farmers to plant coconut trees, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) started a coconut planting project where farmers are given cash incentive for every coconut seedling they plant. Every farmer will receive: Seven pesos (P7.00) for every good seednut sown by the farmers on their own seedbed. The farmers ...
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THE MOST difficult type of persons to deal with are those people who would argue with you but would not listen very well to your arguments and would go on blowing up little statements you make, dragging the discussion into a whole new field that is unrelated to the original ...
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