April 2012
13 posts
Slight Feelings of Anxiety
Some evaluators are coming over tomorrow to film us Pre-K teachers and see how we are doing based on this seminars that we’ve been taking the past few months to improve curriculum and classroom interactions with children. I’m feeling slightly anxious because I generally do not like being in the front of things. :/ It will be slightly uncomfortable to be filmed by the evaluators and...
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Book Review: Viral by Leonard Sweet
Before I start my review, I would like to preface it by saying that my first experience of Leonard Sweet’s writing was with his book, I am a follower, and it was a book that I loved to read. I like his eloquent way of writing and I love the questions after each chapter and I love his challenges to get his readers to think. The Bible says of loving God with all your heart, soul and mind and...
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Book Review: Bearing His name
Christians started being called Christians in Acts as they mirrored Christ or were Christ-like. This is an important part of church history as persecutions happened in huge numbers against them. Christ spoke about this truth in the Bible saying that the world hated Him and that if we follow Him, we shall be prepared to carry a cross also and bring the gospel to a world that despises Christ.
R.T....
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To the smell of simmering onion skins and vanilla!
In about 4 weeks, I will be finishing my internship at a preschool here in the Bay Area. It is exciting to get on break and get on to finishing my applications to some grad schools for special education and research. It’s been a busy and bumpy ride, but I’m following Christ’s leading in this. I will definitely miss my students. They are quite the cutest bunch of kids (I say that...
“Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos,...”
– Harvard Releases Big Data for Books - NYTimes.com (via dwattersw)
(I have heard about this and find it very exciting! See here and here!)
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Extending and Adapting Gulliver's Travels for the...
This book written by Jonathan Swift was one of the few books I read as a child. I think I was eight when I started reading his book. My art professor this semester talked about introducing big books to little people, and I agree! Growing up as a bibliophile, I hope and pray that I get to pass it on to my kids (and I have started a mini library already. The kid’s library idea started when...
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This makes the travel list!
Melrose Abbey, Scotland
I love anything antiquated and anything with a cemetery. There’s just so much cool things to find out in a cemetery, and no I’m not into ghost hunting. You find out so much things by looking at cemetery plots and this is something I learned growing up in the Philippines where we had Todos los Santos, every day after Halloween and my Grandma would drag us to...
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Book Review: The Lordship of Christ
I could not put this book down!! I read it in a day and I think it is a very brief yet wonderfully written book on the meaning of the lordship of Christ in our lives. It has Christ in the center and is very clear on discussing how the Scripture must remain our foundation for truth. He discusses the topic in several steps starting with the character of God, our response, sanctification and...
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Book Review: Spirit Wars
I had the opportunity to read and review the book entitled, Spirit Wars: Winning the Invisible Battle against Sin and the Enemy written by Kris Vallotton. Vallotton uses biblical characters such as Joshua and Nehemiah to speak of spiritual warfare. He starts the book by introducing a key component that a lot of individuals fail to recognize, we are in a world where there are spiritual forces in...
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Today is gonna be the day.
Playlist: Wonderwall - Oasis
Push - Matchbox 20
Downed - Cheap Trick
If you could only see - Tonic
Here is gone - Goo goo dolls
It was a beautiful spring day, a little warm but amazingly pretty. I love spring because of it’s sunny-ness and color but I’ve been having allergies for the past two days.
One of my close guy friends got...
I'm swamped!
Dear Lord,
Help me time manage all this work for work, school and everything else. It’s a lot to handle but I find encouragement in that I can do all things through Your strength!
My room is back to a mess. Paperwork everywhere! Sigh. I feel so cluttered at the moment with all the books on my bed and papers and display boards in my room. OCD mode. :\
It looks like my natural dyes are...
Few and Short Updates
While typing my paper on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, I just felt like I should type up a short update on this blog. It’s been a bit empty lately, my book reviews have yet to be published.
1. Look out for reviews on Spirit Wars, Unashamed to Bear your name, and John Macarthur’s book on Christ’s Lordship. Definitely interesting choices of reading material.
2. I bought an...
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Book Review: Then Sings my soul Book 3
Then Sings My Soul, Book 3 by Robert Morgan
This beautifully book, written by Robert Morgan, prefaces by saying that all creation were created by God to sing praises and to glorify Him. The writer then brings us to a travel through history to look back on some well known hymns, some forgotten and some short stories from the hymn writers that are meant to remind us of God’s continued...
