[Announcement] Train Reads

I’ve recently started reporting onsite again last week, and for the first time since my college internship, I now commute to work via MRT. Waking up early to walk along EDSA and to drag myself up and down three flights of stairs in the train station isn't my idea of a good morning, but turning…

Hello, 2022!

a New Year essay, a belated blog birthday post, and a pandemic recap all in one

The mind has a map of its own

realizing my mind as a city based on the schema theory A few years ago, I tried playing Cities. One of the most fascinating things about it is that the first things you have to build are roads, not buildings. The kind of roads built determine the surrounding zones, and in turn, the zones determine…

Cookie cutter

a self-introduction One of the things I like having my students do on the first day of class is to write or say something about themselves. From a teacher's perspective, it feels like a no-brainer: it's about the student, so surely they would not run out of anything to say. Right? Right. But from a…