I bought the 4 volumes of Trese. I highly recommend this local comic series. I know I’m not good in writing book reviews so I’ll just put here a link log of different book reviews about Trese. I picked five good book reviews and it’s up to you to decide whether you’ll like it or not.
Whether you’ve gone to college or not, you can learn just about anything these days on your own. Want to learn about the classics? Carpentry and home maintenance? Philosophy or cooking? Chess or computer programming? It’s all online, and with a little bit of excitement, you can motivate yourself to learn a subject in a growing number of ways.
Why self-education? Well, besides the obvious reasons of wanting to improve yourself, prepare yourself for success, and just learn as much as you can, self-education offers a few extra benefits: you can learn at your own pace, and in your own way. You can follow your passions, and learn about things that excite you. There’s no price for failure, but there’s every reward for success.
Become an Autodidact: 10 Ways to Become a Self Taught Master – by Dumb Little Man.
This semester, I’m currently assigned to a class in the 5th year level but as a requirement for our 7th activity sheet of our Field Study class, I needed to go back to the 1st grade class that I’ve observed last semester.
Comparing both these classes in terms of the children’s behavior, I noticed that the lower the year level that a teacher handles, the harder it is to keep up proper class management. Applying Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, they differ a lot because the grade one students are in the Preoperational Stage while the grade five pupils are already under the Formal Operational Stage.
Due to the grade one pupils’ active and playful nature, it will be harder for a teacher to handle them compared to the grade five students. But despite of the hardships that a teacher encounters in disciplining these kids, I think it’s a fun experience since the teacher is teaching with simple-minded learners whose main priority in life is to play. Going back with my observation experience with the grade one class last semester, I scribbled a lot in my notebook because of a thousand flashbacks about my childhood memories. Whenever I do that, there’s a bittersweet bouts of nostalgia sinking in me when I recall the days of my schooling in elementary, which was more than a decade ago.
Tumbang Preso
As a kid in the late 90s, I noticed that the idea of fun in these times changed a lot. Children today are enjoying a lot in playing with a lot of electronic gadgets now compared from what we had before when we just have limited choices with our toys and gadgets such as Game Boy and Family Computer consoles. Also, computers before are not as famous as compared today. During the late 90s, our play time is usually spent in outdoors since we play tag, hide-and-seek, patintero, tumbang preso, teks (trading cards), and a lot more.
Today, these games are less likely played now considering technology’s influence today. Children’s idea of fun this 2012 will be totally different from the children’s idea of fun in 2022. It reminds me that the only constant in this world is change and that is okay. I believe that the thing that wouldn’t change is that children will always find time to play.
Patintero
”After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago, my wife and I decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto.”
- Sean Ohlenkamp
Photo by Luciano Joaquim via Flickr
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
-Robert Fulghum
I can cook… barely.
It’s one of my frustrations in life. I don’t have the knack for cooking maybe because I don’t spend much time trying to cook and experiment with a lot of dishes.
I can cooked canned food, instant noodles, and dishes that only requires sauté. I can fry but I don’t like deep-frying because of the splashing oil when I cook so I avoid it as much as possible.
I can cook rice and it has been my work before when I had a summer job.
Here at our convent, I’m forced to help in cooking. But still, it’s a shame that I can’t even cook Jambalaya.
Photo by Andrew Gombert/European Pressphoto Agency via NYTimes
Yesterday, I got surprised upon seeing an Asian basketball player who is not Yao Ming in the newspaper sports section. I thought it was Yi Jianlian but I was wrong.
A long time ago, I’ve seen an article in NBA.com before that there’s a promising point guard, a straight A student from Harvard, entering the NBA. But it took years for Jeremy Lin to get his deserved attention from the NBA.
How good is he? He scored 20+ points in three straight games, even scoring 38 points against Kobe and the Lakers team. It’s like someone has created a player in NBA 2K12 game.
Still not convinced? You might want to check this article from NY Times here.
I’m just surprised from his sudden stardom.
