I finished high school at Saint Peter’s College (SPC) of Ormoc (Leyte) in 2003. Those were challenging four years and I plan to write in detail about those times. The photos below were taken during an outreach activity that the batch organized last April 30, 2011 at the Rotary Gawad Kalinga …
It was March 2011 and I was on my fifth month of being an Inquirer Read-along volunteer. Rosario “Ruth” Chua, chief librarian of the Cebu City Public Library (CCPL), whom I have interviewed in my previous work with Cebu Daily News told me in one of my visits that CCPL …
Back in the Philippines sometime February 2014, I attended a parenting talk and the speaker, Maribel Sision-Dionisio, said that active parenting years is only 10 years (that’s from 0 to 10 years old). This means that you get to spend time with your kids in these 10 years without or …
I have been raving about the wonderful experience I have had last March 5, when the Basadours went to Hipodromo Elementary School (here in Cebu City, Philippines) to celebrate World Read Aloud Day 2014. To quote words from the Litworld: “Worldwide at least 793 million people remain illiterate. Two-thirds of …
It is the kind of bookshop that people go to to line up and have that experience of being in a place where you can just soaked in the literary and artistic air and go all out on being a bookworm. On the eighth of February 2014, we visited Shakespeare …
Sun was out and the Guangzhou breeze was cool. A perfect day for an afternoon stroll. Jeff brought me to a bookstore located underground of the Citic Building. It’s called TangNing Bookstore. We entered through a secret passageway. Jeff has his ways and I just followed him maneuver through a …
I never thought I could be so passionate in recommending a book to people. In a public setting. In a forum. You see, I used to be very selfish. If I read a good book, I don’t share it. I wanted to keep the story to myself. I should be …
Today’s ORMOC CITY – Ninety children from four schools joined the Inquirer Read-along session last December 4, 2010 as part of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. They were part of the 2,000 children all over the country, who were participants of 25 simultaneous read-along sessions nationwide.
People often thank God because it’s Friday. Friday means the end of a work week to many people. Friday marks the start of a weekend of rest or fun. Friday signals a time where everyone can slow things down and admire the beauty of HIS creation. We, at The Reading …
