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150 The Ateneo Way

Posted in Bookworm, My Personal Space, tagged , , , on August 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Originally published in BusinessWorld Weekender, August 27-28, 2009
FOR MOST of my life, there has always been an Atenean (or two, or three) in the family. My brothers went to the Ateneo Grade School and High School, and one of them went on to Ateneo College and law school. Add to them a younger sister, cousins, [...]

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A Common Journey

Posted in Autism, tagged , , , , , on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It was my sister who first put the words “autism” and “Alphonse” together in one sentence. She mentioned it before anyone else, before even my son’s pediatrician.
She was still in medical school then. She had been playing with her nephew for a few hours that day when she stopped and looked at me. “Ate, I [...]

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On My Bookshelf (Part 2)

Posted in Bookworm, My Personal Space, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I finally cleared my shelf off of books from January 8, except for the last one, Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. I picked up a few more books since then, including a crochet instructions book called The Happy Hooker. I’ve been meaning to pick up on my crocheting again as it is definitely [...]

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On My Bookshelf (Part 1)

Posted in Bookworm, My Personal Space, tagged , on January 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I decided to make my own shelf after trying different ways of inserting my Shelfari bookshelf into my blog and miserably failing. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d be forever grateful.
Seeing how almost half of my Christmas stash came in the form of books (the other half made up of [...]

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I love Shelfari!

Posted in Bookworm, My Personal Space, tagged , on January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I joined over the weekend and I got hooked! I love the bookshelf! I positively adore the the way it displays my favorite books! (Notice all the exclamation points!!!)
It’s going to take a while before I am able to create a virtual library to represent the real one I have at home, but I [...]

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Back to regular programming

Posted in Bookworm, My Personal Space, tagged , on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Mood:  
Yesterday marked the official end of the holiday season. School has started again, work has resumed its normal pace, and finally, with almost everyone out of the house, I have my mornings clear and free to catch up on housework, write my articles, or even simply bum around when the mood hits me.  
I should have started packing away the Christmas decorations last [...]

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