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Tree Planting at Uyugan, Batanes

Tree Planting at Uyugan, Batanes Growing up in Batanes, I learned to love the bounties of nature.   Fruit-bearing trees surround our Lolo’s house — a guava tree that regularly bears fruit, a mabolo tree, an orange tree, pomelo, tropical…

The Growth Mindset

How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential In the 2015 SEA Games, Agatha Wong competed in Wushu. She finished second from the last place. I’m sure she was dissapointed with that. However, in an interview recently, she said “That…

Water and Politics

Water and Politics Last December 3, 2019, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte accused the owners of Maynilad and Manila Water of ‘syndicated estafa’ because of what he claims as ‘onerous’ provisions in the concession agreement signed by the two companies with the…

The Innovators

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a totally engaging book about how the computer age came about – the inventors,…