Musings
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Teaching Tagalog to Your Kids While Living in Another Country
I firmly believe that passing on the Tagalog language (both the vernacular and the more poetic written), literature, history, and culture is very important. If you are like me and are also committed to teaching your child(ren) your native language, and it is especially more difficult when living in another country, here are other tips (from my experience).
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Summer days are long, so here are some more thriller novels that I've had the chance to enjoy the last few months!
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My Thriller Reads This Summer of 2023
Thriller novels (and movies) have always been my go-to genre. From Sherlock Holmes and the manga (and anime) Detective Conan when I was a kid, to a wider variety of authors today, I have always enjoyed great mysteries. In fact, I feel like it takes so much more to surprise me, as I tend to anticipate plot twists so often, I have sometimes found reading fiction to be boring. The only reason I have gone back to fiction was because I have learned to enjoy the other components of a novel: for example, the literary style and characterization. Here is a quick rundown of some of the books I've read…
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Air Canada and the Car Seat Debacle
I am writing this as a public service announcement (a life pro tip) to all parents who fly with them. Please note that even if your car seat is Transport Canada-approved, you may not be able to use it on the seat that you purchased for your child, depending on the competence of the staff on board. They tell you so many different rules and the reasons for these rules, they can’t all be true. And even if you follow the rules on their website, they will try to gaslight you and tell you that it's your fault it doesn't fit, so the car seat will either have to go…
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Living Faithfully in Our Present State
St. Claude La Colombière wrote, centuries past, the following wise words. "You think you would be less distracted if you were away from the circumstances in which God has placed you; I think, on the contrary, that you would have fewer distractions if you accepted things with more conformity to God’s will and if, in your work, you thought of yourself as a servant of Jesus Christ whom he employs as it seems best to him and who is equally content in whatever service is exacted from her."
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Studying Effectively, Part 3: Memory and Tests
In this post, we look at the types of memory, interleaving when studying, as well as some preventable pitfalls that assure us we're learning when we're not. In the end, we conclude with testing tips and how to apply everything that we have learned in real life.
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Studying Effectively, Part 2 – Never Later
cleaning, cooking, reading, and doing everything except the one thing that you're supposed to be doing (yes, that is studying!), then you are not alone.
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Studying Effectively, Part 1: Chunk the Chunks
When a subject feels overwhelming, it is helpful to break it down into learning chunks. Chunks are the building blocks of later and advanced studies and helps the brain become more efficient by organizing data.
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Pink with Hope
But to me, Leni was suddenly more than these manifestations of her virtues and the tangibles of her projects. She has always been a beacon of light in the murky landscape that is Philippine politics, but with her announcement came the lifting of that air of heaviness and the sudden stillness of hearts before furiously beating again. All of a sudden, there was hope. Leni is that hope.
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Book Review: One by One by Ruth Ware
A locked room, but up in the snowy mountains. A tech startup company, there for a retreat, with warring parties in the face of a buyout. People dying, one by one. Who's the culprit, and why?
