This movie review of ‘Need for Speed’ was published on March 14, 2014 in Cebu Daily News. *** Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an …
This movie review of ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ was published on March 28, 2014 in Cebu Daily News. *** Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will …
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – It has been two years since Jeff asked me to live in China with him so we don’t have this long distance relationship going on. Several times, I refused – not because I don’t love him enough to move to the Middle Kingdom but because I had …
By Jeff Ruffolo As the nature of my world, I travel. A lot. As such I am always hungry – no, not for food – but for the printed word. Some people get their news visually and carry their computer pad along with them wherever they go. For me – …
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 …
There are several things I miss about my college days at the University of the Philippines Cebu; one of which is my perseverance in writing poems. I remember writing in Cebuano and getting giddy about reading them to myself. I remember sharing two of these poems to my Humanities teacher, …
Nick and Toni on this first twin video. This one shows how different Nick and Toni are from each other. Taken last December 7, 2013 with Ates Joy and Elsie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcbnkUC5jc8
When we were still living in Cebu (Philippines), my nephew Bootcheek (you can also call him Timothy) was the official storyteller to Nicholas and Antoinette. He still is. Here is one of his storytelling sessions with the twins. He read the book “The Mountain That Loved A Bird” by Alice …
Timothy Uriel a.k.a. Bootcheek is my first nephew. I wrote about him here. He loves books and this is just one of those videos where I caught him “reading” a book. Watch out for the giggles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAEEqsD34Ew
