Renewal of Driver's LicenseThe recent bombing in Davao City had a lot of bomb scares and leaked police documents circulating in my social media (particularly messaging platforms, because most of them say, top secret, do not share - so obviously, people share). There was one about SM North EDSA being a target, so I had to reconsider having my driver ( Read more... )

Preparing to Renew Driver's LicenseI really dread having to renew my driver's license. Or doing anything bureaucratic in the Philippines for that matter. So to do it a bit "smarter," I decided to go online and check where I could do my driver's license renewal. Last year, 2015, a lot of the Driver's License Renewal Centers (DLRCs) closed down ( Read more... )

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We are studying sovereign state immunities in Public International Law, and on the headlines is a very bothersome situation. Three Filipinos were convicted to DEATH in China for smuggling heroin. President Aquino is now appealing President Hu Jintao to commute the sentence into life imprisonment. Sadly, there's nothing the president of China could ( Read more... )

I'm a very urban/suburban girl. I even took an entire course on Urban Economics, which deals with city planning and incidents of living in a city and their economic implications. It's one of my favourite courses in the UP School of Economics and taught by one of my favourite professors, now Director-General Paderanga of the NEDA ( Read more... )

To get things out of the way, Glee Season Two Premiere was pure AWESOMENESS. It was awesome that amid the suicidal schedule, I saw it 2.5 times yesterday (thank you, free cut sa Nego). Bambi, Lou, Angela and I watched it on ETC while waiting for it to download, then, right after Sam's version of Billionaire (which was better than the original!!!), ( Read more... )

When I was a child, I really, really wanted to join the Miss Universe pageant. At least my mother put that idea in my head (mala-Inception) and after seeing Sushmita Sen win that crown in 1994, with a wonderful answer defending the essence of womanhood as motherhood ( Read more... )

After a super tiring day in school, which started at 9:30 am, little did I know that somewhere in Manila, 22 distressed Chinese toursits and the bus's staff were held hostage by a dismissed police officer. Carlo and I got home the same time my mom did from badminton (around 20:00ish) and the first things my mom said were "hostage" "tourists" and I' ( Read more... )

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