Month: February 2011

Today is a gift that’s why it’s called Present.

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This morning after doing some house chores a sad news from my sister Badet and cousin Ate Cristy greeted me online. “Ate, si Uncle Jun patay na” “Gail did you hear the news Uncle Jun left us na” I didn’t know how to react. Just last week I saw and read some of his posts in facebook. Uncle Jun (Tarcs to his friends) has a gift in writing. In his blog you’d learn a lot from his entries. My Papa stayed with Uncle Jun’s family and Papa became their Kuya. My first OJT was with him. I was with him during his stay at Makati Med for his first heart operation. We last saw each other when he went to Dubai for a business trip (sadly we didnt have any pictures taken) this is also the time that he told me of his plans to volunteer and made me promise not to spread this plan to the family. In one of his office he had a big poster of Judy Ann Santos which kept him amused. For …

School Hunt pt2

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We continue the search and visited the following schools and a brief review… The Oxford SchoolCurriculum – English National CurriculumKG1-Grade 12 We have a friend who sends their kids here and they are very happy with the school and the kids are too. That itself is a plus already, we only don’t want our kids to learn but to be happy as well. The guy who toured us around the KG department was not a member of the faculty so he was not really able to explain well the activities that the school offer for KG students he just mainly just showed us around and pointed out the Star International – Al Twar Curriculum – National Curriculum for England and WalesKG1-Year 8 Star has a homey feel to it and the assistant principal who toured us was very pleasant lady. We don’t have any friends who has children in this school but base on the comments we read on the forum’s majority says that they love the school. Unfortunately the fee is just way beyond our …