Passenger Tales

When shopping in supermarkets, you usually get stuck in the check-out line. Usually people look for lines that are shorter than others for faster transaction. But I learned from our economics class that it is better to get into the nearest line than to look for a shorter line because it is all […]

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In our policy analysis subject, the professor cited asymmetry of information as one of the reasons why markets fail. This is where one party has more information about a good’s attributes than the other, and one cannot observe a good’s attribute until one chooses to consume it. Consumers are usually affected by this […]

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Damo o Bulaklak?
(Weed or Flower?)

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When you go to school, one of the things you cannot avoid are the textbooks. I am so grateful that we have a separate stipend for textbooks because these really eat away at our budget. It is best to read the textbooks aside from just listening to the teacher discuss the lessons. […]

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It’s almost the start of summer season in the Philippines again. Summer starts on March and ends sometime in May. In order to get a head start and avoid the crowd, some already go the beach as early as now and first week of March. Rates of beach vacation rentals will […]

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In large cities where space is a premium commodity, enterprising people will exploit this fact. Apartment or house rents are quite expensive and you will be very lucky to find even a cubbyhole that is affordable. It is not only renting out apartments or houses that is quite a lucrative business but pay […]

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Eto ay mga tsokolateng hugis puso na bigay ng aming kaibigan na Vietnamese na si Lee nung Valentine’s Day. Si Lee lang ang pinagpala sa aming anim na may date nung Valentine’s dahil bumisita ang kanyang nobyo na nag-aaral din sa isang pamantasan sa ibang bayan dito sa Korea.
These heartshaped chocolates were given by […]

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Yesterday we attended a Korean wedding. It was a Catholic wedding so I guess it was not really very different from Catholic weddings in the Philippines. It was funny how we came about attending the wedding of Ms. Hong, our program coordinator. Esen and Sophearith, two international students encountered Ms. Hong one day […]

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I am not sure if my aunt is already finished with her remodelling project. With the piece by piece way she’s going about it, I don’t think she’d be finished anytime soon. I like what she did with the bathroom. It used to be so cramped and dark but now it looks […]

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Before I left for my study leave, construction of our office building was still on-going even though we were already occupying the building. I was quite dismayed when we first transferred to the new building because it looked so unfinished. Pipes running through the ceilings and walls were held in place by industrial clamps […]

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