Photo courtesy of Yahoo! PH News Filipinos are currently facing the destruction that Super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) has created in central Philippines. The government along with NGOs and various people all over the country have been extending their help to their fellow kababayans. Netizens have been spreading out important information before, during, and after Yolanda. Bayanihan could be...

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Due to my status update in FB about my arrival in Japan, Ate Jonep, a former colleague in U.P. College of Education and a fellow orgmate in U.P. Special Education Council sent me a message that she was in Saitama Prefecture. She is currently working as an English teacher. She was spending her third week in Japan at...

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Yoroshiku! When a massive earthquake hit Japan in 2011, I wrote a blog entitled The Land of the Rising Sun to express my sincere love for the beautiful country and hope for it to rise and shine again. Three years after, I found myself accompanying my Dad for a visa application and boarding the non-stop 3-hour flight. Smooth sailing. I...

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