Tour of Museums: Meditations at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
June 27, 2015
Remembering the fallen … More Tour of Museums: Meditations at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
When in Malapascua…
June 21, 2014
A little over an hour’s flight from Manila, we land in Cebu International airport past midnight on a rainy Tuesday in June, and decide to kill four hours in the airport before setting out on a long bus ride to Logon, more familiar to many as Malapascua. We’re too cheap (and scared!) to venture out … More When in Malapascua…
How to get into a graduate school abroad
May 14, 2014
Deciding to study abroad has got to be one of the major decisions you will make in life (next to, maybe, deciding to have kids???). It’s a huge academic leap for anyone, not to mention a huge financial investment. (Small wonder that this had made into Facebook’s major events time line. ^_^) For us Filipinos, … More How to get into a graduate school abroad
2013 in review
January 1, 2014
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,200 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 53 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … More 2013 in review
Tour of Museum: Bishop Museum
December 21, 2013
One hundred eighty-two years ago today, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, one of this century’s memorable women, and great-granddaughter of Hawai’i‘s greatest King, Kamehameha I, was born in Honolulu. Bernice Bishop‘s “herstory” is heartwarming. As a philanthropist, she founded the Kamehameha Schools for educating Hawaiian children. She followed her heart by marrying the man she herself had … More Tour of Museum: Bishop Museum
“Le’ahi”: Doing Diamond Head
November 2, 2013
Visiting historic Pearl Harbor was the centerpiece of my 2009 trip to O’ahu; hiking up the 1.1 km to the summit of Diamond Head to see the tuff cone crater, a natural landmark, was it on my 2013 return trip. Le’ahi, the Hawaiian word for the “brow of the ahi fish”, also “wreath of fire” to refer to the “navigational fires” lit to serve as seafarers’ guides, is a geological … More “Le’ahi”: Doing Diamond Head
Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
August 25, 2013
I was trying to catch the setting sun, but I got the tree, instead. Hey, I’m not complaining! 😉
Road Trip O’ahu
August 21, 2013
Hawai’i is not just O’ahu; it is also Maui, the Big Island, Molokai, Kauai, etc. O’ahu is also not just Waikiki; it is a bunch of other excellent beaches like Waimea, Waimanalo, Kailua, Kualoa, Ka’a’awa (pronounced Ka-a-ava). If there’s a perfect place to get lost in, is in some beach with un-pronounce-able place names like Pupukea or Kaihalulu. The … More Road Trip O’ahu
Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways
August 20, 2013
Outside of Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is this beautiful, tree-lined walk that I could not stop capturing on camera. This was even before I had learned that the next weekly challenge is going to be this sort of thing—two shots of the same view. I don’t know why, but I … More Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways
Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece(s)
August 3, 2013
A masterpiece of urban planning, the Central Business District (CBD) of Singapore shows us what can be achieved if humans plan and execute. One of Salvador Dali‘s masterpieces, Persistence of Memory, which features a fluid watch draped on a tree (shown below) is a personal favorite. Imagine my surprise to see this idea re-created using a … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece(s)
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