Travels too offer another avenue of knowing what seems to be the crisis of the moment. Like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, these countries tell the other nations how they took care and are taking care of their beloved lands. Tourists are awed at their skycrapers and the developments that look too advanced we can only wish the Philippines will keep up. Yet, at the end of the day, it is without hesitation that if made to choose Teacher's teacher will still choose her native land Philippines, maybe not because of its infrastructures but because of its simplicity and family relationships.
The world is there to become our stage and we, the actors, in this drama of life have to do our roles to the best way possible. Then there is our Creator who will hold us accountable for the life given to us to say yes or no to life's calling.
At this juncture, our prayers to Flordeliz Gayon Malicse who passed away very recently. She has lived life with zest and meaning, her time has come but now she is happily back in God's fold. To the family, hold on to the faith that being with God is the best way to live a life without end.
Now we have to spend to tame How the "Angry Birds" but this will have to happen for a long time to come. From experience, one becomes angry too as you play the game because the target becomes more difficult to hit.
So Plants vs. Zoombies enthusiasts - where are you? Have you met the Angry Birds? Have you come to the point of getting angry yourself?
With all our agenda in life, is there really a place for Plants vs. Zoombies and now, The Angry Birds?
Fellow mentors, try these games if only for the sake of curiosity. Then tell me your personal feedback. Meet Plants vs. Zoombies and Angry Birds.
Teacher's teacher has a Facebook Account- at last!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 5:27 AM
There were three attempts that went awry but at last this account was confirmed. Let us meet each other in this e-mail address: reinaaserios@ymail.com. Let us "Facebook" fellow Teachers All Over The World!
What is it about travelling that gets you going?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 11:37 AM
From my end, it is the new adventure and the "thud" in your heart especially when you face the immigration officers who look "mean" and go around the new environment with complete dependence on your tour guide. Then just when you decide to let go of the newness of it all, the scenery before you makes you wish all of it can be replicated back home.
Take a look at some of these awesome sites . . . and we do acknowledge the "developed" country that Singapore is and Kuala Lumpur too.
Yet for us who have lived for more than half a century, we get to give more importance to realities that truly matter: love of family with the children as the people dearest to your heart and one's home where everything natural is - the feeling that in it is the genuine belongingness and being who you truly are.
So to get back to the question: what is it about travelling that gets you going? It is basically to get away but only for a short time and travel back home to come home to stay.
With Teacher's teacher senior citizen status, it is a wonder to be able to wander around Cebu to Singapore to Malaysia back to Singapore to Cebu and finally home. For Teacher's teacher it is another opportunity to share to her students the bigger world out there and inspire them to see it for themselves!
Let some photos speak for itself . . .
Singapore is famous for its Universal Studio where Resorts World is or is it RW where Universal Studio is. Also a Singapore trademark is Marina Tower: 56 stories! So up there, we see the grand city.
Our trip to Malaysia was the "icing on the cake" what with the generosity of Datu and Datin and Zaiful. We went around Kuala Lumpur inside a "Hummer" and a tour guide who is the son of an Ambassador - how's that for a treat?
Succeeding blogs will feature more sites which we can only remember with much candor for now we have come home and of course it has to be said: With all the feasts one's eyes can only behold and leave us tongue-tied and awed, our hearts still prefer our home.
You hear of someone's rise to fame
All laurels sometimes rest on one
Then we see the financially challenged
All the street children's lot unchanged.
One heaves a sigh for a life lost
All because the lawmakers fought
Society is shaken for the chaos caused
Who can be spared from this for naught?
Generations of new and old query
When do all these realities go wary
Wonder no more but be ready for sure
"Death makes every person accountable"
To you my fellow sojourner
Take a moment or so to ponder
Whoever you are and whatever state you are kept
"Death makes you and I indebted."
This was the poem Teacher's teacher came to compose as Angelo Reyes, a statesman, an achiever but basically human, a person like every citizen is, is now with the Maker because he was forced to take his life hopefully for a greater good.
Now that Teacher's teacher is a blogger who "Blogs at Sixty" time is a luxury to be treasured. Also, the realization is clearer that just as life is real so is death. There is no status that bars death from visiting anyone of us. All we can do is pray that our God takes care of us and decides when our time becomes up at a time when we too are ready.
