Teacher's teacher

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.

This is my initial feeling as the time allows me to be alone
Up to when this hunger will last only its duration can hone
But once in a while I get to complain
Will life ever be the same again?

Children make us work all day to serve food on the table
Then they go to school forever and then suddenly they become capable
This is life - on one side its beauty
This is life - on the other side its strife.

That's why when I was watching "Everything's fine"
I asked myself : is everything really fine?
The father, Robert D Niro, speaks for all parents
They just want to become good providers to their children.

So as life goes on it is good to believe that "everybody is indeed fine"
For should you disagree, can you do something better?
As it is the children grow up and become their own persons
Time to let them be as parents too go their way.

But we all know this is what life's teaching us
We all go through the course, one by one
Sometimes, however, it is not all fun
So once in a while there's pain and there's pain

Still everybody will turn out fine as planned
And we go on if only to be open to what lies ahead
Only God knows how and when things will end
So let us stop and talk awhile while we can.

No offense meant but after so many orders of fast food one can only relish nutritious food being served at table! But what can most do with the busy schedule that seems to siphon much of our energy? How can you enjoy the food you so patiently prepared and cooked when your body refuses to give you the reception you so wanted to possess? A much more ready- to- eat fast food, hot and outwardly presentable and delicious seems more inviting.

With so man reality shows that we see on tv, some titles are inspiring like "losing it with jillian" or "the big loser". Definitely teachers like me who have reached the high 60 must come to terms with "mortality". These seem to be my preoccupation nowadays what with so many of our colleagues "going ahead". But this will be thet topic in my next blog, for now, it is losing weight. Do you have tips? Let us exchange notes. At the moment, I am just conditioning myself to begin soon . . .

So have you ordered fast food lately and often? Perhaps we can still do so but it should be less than more. Also, these fast food chains should reconsider their policy about not offering 20% discount to senior citizens. All the more the elderly should avail of the discount especially when they are alone in their homes. Calling DTI and the DSWD!

To fellow senior citizens-teachers, how are you doing?

The College of Teacher Education, Bukidnon State University, Malaybalay City just passed Level III during the accreditation done by AACCUP last December 2010- Congrats CTE! Now, the challenge is to make sure all our graduates, if not, at least as many, pass the Licensure Examination for Teachers. Personally, I really try to do my share being one of the teachers of CTE myself.

I would like to invite alumni, especially my students who have succeeded and are now working as teachers in the field to make a comment here and together do something concrete for our would-be LET takers, anyone?

So why do we prefer to say that life teaches all teachers? We say so because it is so. Look at all the events that we experience or observe, we find ourselves passive or active. The better option of course is to accept whatever life offers and from it become better and do better. A wise person did say "once a teacher always a student." Agree?

Fellow teachers, friends and followers, here we go again!
If not for Ryan and Analyn, my Neo computer was unable to go on line. Others say it is because my lowly computer is considered "garbage unit in China". People can really be cruel. My daughter could not help but get mad at these people but this made me think, someday, why not Apple?

Still, my neo compu has been my companion and I have not yet fully explored its features so Neo it is unt il it decides to desert me.

Good News! I have come up with an Instructional Material on Peace so expect me to share some excerpts. You can order if you like. If you have something like this, let us exchange notes.

At this juncture, allow me to say my greetings: Belated Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, advance Happy Valentine!