University Of The Philippines

filipina at home on March 16th, 2012

The assault on UP student leader Lordei Camille Hina on February 1, 2012 inside the Student Council office stung the UP Diliman campus and threw the community in a state of shock and anxiety.

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filipina at home on May 5th, 2011

  I recently had the privilege of meeting a certain young woman studying at the University of the Philippines (U.P.), the country’s premier educational institution. Since I don’t have permission to publish her name here, let’s just call her Mina.   Mina is a dusky, fragile-looking and unassuming girl. A DOST (Department of Science and [...]

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filipina at home on March 21st, 2010

My husband and I like to take our kids to parks whenever the weather permits. This way, it is easier to teach them to appreciate and care for the environment. Also, they get to learn that there are other ways to while away one’s time aside from going to the mall, shopping and playing games at the video arcade.

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filipina at home on March 15th, 2010

Some peoples lives are so intertwined… Really…Read this story…When I was in high school back in the 80′s, I attended a national encampment as a girl scout. There, I met Melissa who was to be my pen friend for the rest of high school. She was a girl scout from Nueva Vizcaya, a northern Philippine province. In the 80′s, keeping in touch meant writing letters. No, not e-mails, but handwritten letters that took about a week to send by mail.

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