I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
Read moreFacebook will never run out of interesting links to share! The latest link circulated online is the one that concerns the planetary alignment on December 3, 2012. According to the post, the three planets — Mercury, Venus, and Saturn — will be dead-on aligned with the Pyramids at Giza (see…
Read more
American blogger Sarah Pope, who runs the blog The Healthy Home Economist, has been the talk of the town in Philippine media the past days after Filipino Senator Tito Sotto plagiarized her blog. Sotto used in his anti-Reproductive Health Bill speech, without attribution, portions of Pope’s blog entry entitled “How…
Read more
“Guttersnipe” is the first book published online by aspiring author, Matthew Trigg. The book is both a ridicule of the societal woes and a travesty of human fallibility. The tale circles around the inconvenient journey of human lives. Trigg forges a story that is hinged on the conflicting lives of…
Read moreI visited the Milwaukee Art Museum today. I arrived there three hours before closing time and I was afraid that I would not be able to see all the galleries in such a very short time. However, I managed to squeeze all the viewing and reading the labels by following…
Read moreFor very obvious reasons, most of my foreign friends, mostly Americans and few Europeans, do not like bagoong and dried fish. While Filipinos consider bagoong and dried fish to be heavenly delectable, there are many eating mortals in the planet who just dislike the food and, instead, would prefer pizzas,…
Read more
Alright, I may have exaggerated the title. But, it was exactly what I said — sweetest love poem ever — when Ms. G. wrote it for me many, many years ago. The poem — so simple and sweet! *** Is this true Is this love Is this right Doesn’t matter……
Read more
On Saturday, there were scattered rain showers in the morning and the afternoon was cloudy. Yet, the weather did not dampen the spirits of the thousands of spectators who swarmed the South Dakota Air National Guard Base for the 2012 Sioux Falls Airshow. As a matter of fact, the gloominess of the day, coupled with…
Read more
I went with my friend to Burger King (located in Brookings, South Dakota) for a quick lunch today. I ordered a “Whopper Sandwich” meal, and my friend had the same order plus a “Dutch Apple Pie”. Surprise, surprise what my friend got as an unwelcome bonus on his pie —…
Read more