A MOM IS NOT A MOM ALONE
I was browsing through some old posts of Bikoy, a Philippine Blog Award nominee for the Personal Blog Category, late in the evening yesterday, when the sudden thought of me going back to school came into mind. Bikoy, an incoming college senior (I guess, based on his profile in the Blog) taking up BA Film and Audio-Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines, has several photos (and must I say they were artistically taken) of some familiar corners in the school that made me reminisce the nerve-wracking but nevertheless wonderful and fulfilling memories of schooling.
When I saw the photos, I can’t help but recall that time in my life when I often go on an undertime in the Office only to rush through the battles of traffic in EDSA (there was no MRT yet at that time) and hopefully make it on time for my 5PM class where our Teacher unfortunately, was notoriously known as one of the terrors in the College. Undertime was the mildest form of tardiness I had years back then (and my Boss was very much thankful of that) because the most horrible and worst of all were for me either taking half-day or vacation leave from work just to go the school libraries for research works on class reports and project papers. Going overnights for group projects especially were likewise of no exception since most Teachers then were strict when it comes to submission on deadlines. Continue Reading »

