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  School away from School             I started teaching online in 2010 to Korean students. New to the technology of remote teaching I was ushered into a significant teaching and learning experience. Using Skype I facilitated teaching English to my Korean students; share my lessons and activities and video lectures through a learning management system. I made friends, because of that, and was introduced to their culture, learned how to prepare kimchee from a retired lady student. I was not introduced to Kdrama then, though.             Ten years after, I am teaching online again. Cainta Catholic College, in its quest for excellence and pursue its mission to provide catholic education, made schooling still available for our students. The COVID-19 pandemic truly complicated everyone’s life. It changed the way we live and work. And schools were not spared. My school, CCC, ...
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       T hough there are more that drive me, like ambition and goals, I think I have to admit that I am vain. I am distracted by my un dyed gray hair, or wearing inappropriate mix-matched attire. Many times I can’t tell if I’m conceited or insecure. W hen I was young (soo long ago), I love looking at striking, glittering, shimmering things. I’m always taken by beauty. I saw all nature is a performance of art. Blame my mother who loved to dress me up. l remember wearing something that half my family hated, but I saw the flairs and colors in it. So I wore it! Like no one cares.           Shopping for clothes was my super power. I go for timeless style whether from branded ones, from the tiangge, to ukay ukay. I control my style. It is not what’s in, but what looks good on me. After all, it’s all about how you wear it.           At 65, I still worry about what to wear. How I look. I look at myself in the mirr...
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A vow to renew...a love to show

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A good friend Dino and his pretty wife Winnie will celebrate their Silver Wedding Anniversary on the first of May. I designed this invitation for them. It is such a wonderful feeling to see them beam with appreciation. I believe marriages are made in heaven...a "meant to be" circumstance. God seals the union with his own hand through the sacrament...on their wedding day. So when it reaches this long, endures through time, it must be celebrated big time.
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Since I made teaching a lifetime career, which actually became a lifestyle, I had to put my drawing passion aside. Thank God there is Photoshop now. Though I am not actually "techy" then, Photoshop became easy for me to learn because of the colors and shapes, art tools and brushes it offers to make me go back to my art again. 
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When winter comes summer waits in the cold... butterflies are not only for flowers. photo by: Msgr. Arnel F. Lagarejos
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The Appointment

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Suddenly the bells toll for the coming Suddenly the rains... I was on top of the fancy mountain Just suddenly... coins of gold started pouring. photo by Oji
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from auguries of innocence

...to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower... hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour... william blake
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