If you’re a teenage girl who knows how to read, you will probably already have read at least one of the books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, known every little random tidbit about Robert Pattinson, and cried in front of your parents to seek permission to catch the film interpretation of the first book in [...]

Well, we’ve got 6 more days to go before November ends, which means that my first attempt at writing a 50,000-word novel during the National Novel Writing Month has been a complete failure. I’m at a paltry 572 words, which means that I’ll have to come up with at least 8,238 words a day from [...]

I’ve always wanted a digital camera with at least slightly better quality than my camera phone. The best my family has ever had, I think, was an Olympus C-350, with 3.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom, and 3.3x digital zoom. It shot OK-quality pictures, but video was audio-less and therefore sucky. It was the only digicam [...]

Don’t get me wrong—Ubuntu Linux is an incredible operating system. In fact, I’m writing this blog post on Ubuntu right now. I like its lightness and speed, plus the fact that it’s open source and completely free. However, being a certified Windows user since my early grade school days, it has been very difficult to [...]

It’s never too late to start reading a classic, so while I struggle to finish Nineteen Eighty Four, I read “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret“, a short, 25-chapter novel by Judy Blume that revolves around Margaret Ann Simon, a 12-year-old who grew up with no religion.
Having one Jewish and one Catholic parent, Margaret [...]

Hello, all. I’m back from an unwired week in Tandag, Surigao del Sur, where I participated in the Regional Schools Press Conference, the penultimate of the series of press conferences held by the DepED every year. Thankfully, during the said event I won first place for Feature Writing English Secondary, and I’m heading to the [...]

The Regional Schools Press Conference commences in Tandag next week, and yours truly will be joining the said competition.
The RSPC brings together Caraga’s most budding campus journalists in friendly competition to find out who will represent the region in the National Schools Press Conference, which will be held some time in February next year in [...]

We’ve been waiting for this day to come for years now, and finally, it has come to pass: the United States has chosen her next leader in Democratic senator Barack Obama.
This blog congratulates the president-elect. I hope, pray and believe that he can lead America and the world to better days. I know it will [...]