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.
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I found these very interesting links about the declining number of American PhD degree holders. It seems like Americans do not need PhD degrees anymore. Is this why America is luring foreigners into taking graduate studies? Hundreds of foreign students, if not thousands, come to the U.S. every year and…
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Accept it Filipinos, our country, The Philippines, is not the happiest country in the world. It never has been. According to the latest report from the Happy Planet Index (HPI), the Philippines scored 52.4 and ranked #25 of all the 151 countries analyzed. The index was based on these three…
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I do not know exactly who wrote this poem about brokenness and betrayal of trust. While browsing my little booklet that I’ve been keeping for a decade now, I realized that I actually copied this poem from an airline magazine on my way to the Philippines from the Netherlands. The…
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Here I am, taking the seat at the corner, the only elevated area of the coffee shop. I never take this seat unless nothing else is available. I always have this unusual feeling when elevated, like being stared at (although I do not possess the charming looks people would want to even take a glance at), jeered at (I’m thinking too much), and pestered by rowdy and vicious juveniles (alright, let me jog my memory — crumpled.
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It looks to me that sleeping on my belly and burying my face in layers of pillows have tremendously pushed my nose further to the level of my cheeks. Every morning, it exhibits some sort of flattening movement with the nostrils extending sideways to a few millimeters more.
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I was surprised by the sudden appearance of this Google chrome warning when visiting specific pages of this blog. It says: https://www.braincontour.com contains content from nuled.in, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site. Google has found malicious software may be…
Read moreI saw something posted on Facebook today — a photo of a lady selling margaritas on the beach. According to the accompanied texts, the lady is said to clear $1,250.00 a day by doing the job. Whether the story is real or hoax, selling a drink by sipping through some…
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Manila, Philippines is popular online. Thanks to “Ocean Park Manila” (an oceanarium) and “Resorts World Manila” (a casino resort) that are both highly searched online. Their popularity in web searches are steadily rising since their opening dates — around 2008 for Manila Ocean Park and 2010 for Resorts World Manila….
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