#MyDayInBCD

There is so much in life that one cannot in a lifetime accomplish everything. As years come by, not getting younger, we tend to look back and accesses where life has lead us. There’s a lot of measure when it comes to success, success is a relative achievement that ultimately depends on every individual, his visions and goals in life. My three decades in the surface of the earth has brought me into where I am today, have I achieved much in my life? Living in simplicity is the one I envisioned, have a fulfilling and enjoyable job and probably my own family someday. All these are something that I savor today (except the own family thing), I have my mom and siblings and I couldn’t really ask for more. In the journey for the next decade I hope to achieve new things academically and to whatever new opportunities that may come ahead of me, I am prepared to accept the challenge. To my family and friends thank you for everything. To my God and only Savior, to You I offer this life, in You I ...

An ordinary government employee got fired for not declaring all the properties she owned in her SALN (Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth). The impeachment case against the chief justice is a totally similar case where the supreme court itself upheld the decision to remove the employee from government service. The way how the trial is going, it is the stand of the defense that such error can be easily corrected anytime but by visiting the decision of the high court it did not allow the same kind of reasoning for the that ordinary employee. The purpose of SALN is to check if a government employee has acquired unexplainable weath while he/she is in government service and if we admit the argument of allowing corrections after the submissions it denies the purpose of such filings that shall be done with atmost honesty and accuracy. Everytime government employees caught withholding details from their SALN, they will simply invoke that rule of being allowed to make corrections to...

Students come and go but the memories last forever.  I remember having that as my FB status and had so many likes from my former students and friends. Being an educator is an exciting profession, every start of a new academic year you come to face to face with new people that will eventually be part of your daily life for about 4 years and probably more for some. At the end of a the year you will then see the seniors take the stage and receive their hard earned diplomas, they'll soon join the real world if some would call it and face the real challenges in life. As the moments arrive, you are always feeling a mixed emotion, the feeling of being happy and proud with a bit of sadness as well. Happy and Proud After 4 years in college many of your students will graduate, find work and use the knowledge you taught them, maybe not all but surely some of it. You feel excited and full of pride when they get hired in a job. Sadness Overtime you develop a student-teacher relatio...

To quote one writer in her opinion she said: "One truth about racism is that we Filipinos apparently don’t know what it means. Which is to say we have trivialized it no end, using it to describe any statement that highlights the Azkals’ difference from the rest of us who (1) are kayumanggi, i.e., are brown-skinned, (2) are Pinoys who grew up here, and (3) share common values and concerns based on, not necessarily just because of, numbers (1) and (2)." and she continues… "To assert that these are racist statements is to fail at understanding that racism is about asserting one race’s superiority over another." Racism is taken seriously in some other countries, recently in the UK a man was arrested for posting on his twitter account considered to be a racist comment after a football player collapse while playing in the pitch and to quote: "LOL [Laugh out loud]. **** Muamba. He’s dead!!! #haha." Nothing in the statement mentions about the color of ...