a little bit of jimcentricity

Why Food Trip is the Best Type of Trip?

It is summer, and everyone is out, whether it’s a dip in the sea, or a mountain hike, or a road trip. But at one point or two along the way, you will feel the hunger. When you can’t find any food along the street, you will feel not only hunger, but hanger, an angry state fueled by hunger.

So on your next trip, while looking for Instagram-worthy locations and sites, you might as well research for…

Maasin City: The Hidden Gem in Eastern Visayas

For a traveler who wishes to visit more provinces and islands on a single trip, Maasin City is one strategic place to start the province- and island-hopping adventure.

Maasin City is the capital of Southern Leyte. It is a small city east of Bohol, and north of Surigao del Norte, west of Dinagat Islands, and south of the more popular cities such as Tacloban, Baybay and Ormoc.

While Maasin City is…

I remembered that one time when I had a Saturday class in College of Business Administration (CBA). It was the class of BA 198 aka Leadership 101, a non-major subject under the Revitalized General Education Program (RGEP) of the University of the Philippines System. RGEP is incorporated in the curriculum so as to “broaden the student’s intellectual and cultural horizon which in turn is supposed…

Many of us complain on our daily work in the office. Some wants to get out of the job he/she is in as soon as possible. Other are just slacking and letting the time pass by doing nothing. That is why Mondays are labeled as the very dreadful day, and we spend the following days on looking forward to Fridays Nights and the Weekend.

This situation may seem so normal to people who are underemployed…

Familiarize Yourself with the Different Public Land Transportation in the Philippines

Traveling is not always equal to tour packages and road trips. They are oftentimes either too far from the reach of concrete roads, or too near to everyone that parking space and traffic are the major problems. And so we resort to taking the roads with the use of the public land transportation.

Here in the Philippines, there are a lot of variations on the public transportation. Some are…

I am Enlightened (Feb 14, ’09 1:22 AM)

I was so depressed and weary last night, and thought of sleeping na lang the whole night. But I still have to do something else which is more productive than sleeping. I need to tutor a person in need overnight because her exam will be the day after last night, which is today. We stayed awake until 12 midnight and woke up at around 4 o’clock in the morning to continue reviewing. With the span of…

Once Upon A Time in UP Diliman Series #9: UP Fair

The year was 2009, the first time I missed attending UP Fair on a Valentines Day Eve since 2005. Because I had a date. I need to tutor a person in need overnight because her exam will be on a Valentines Day. We stayed awake until 12 midnight and woke up at around 4 o’clock in the morning to continue reviewing. With the span of 7 hours teaching this person, I got the chance to ask questions about…

In my 28 years of existence, I literally haven’t dreamt even just for one night an American dream. I had times when I woke up still with fresh memories of last night’s dream of walking past a road full of cherry blossoms, of walking the whole stretch of the Great Wall of China, of traversing the Chao Phraya river while eating pad thai, and of being married to Sarah Geronimo, but not of seeing the…

While stuck in the mountains in the Philippines, I again watched the first movie of Harry Potter entitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I remembered that day when I finished reading the book, one of the first books I’ve leisurely read in my life. But it made me remember the more memorable day which started all this craze/hobbies of collecting Harry Potter Funko pops, and Harry Potter…

On My Finest Moment

When my finest moment was celebrated during one of the Recognition Day of my beloved alma mater with the theme ‘On our finest moments’, e d wow. 🙂 🙂 🙂 On Our Finest Moments To our beloved PSHS-CVC Director Dr. Salvador B. Romo, hardworking teachers, proud parents, fellow scholars, isang mapagpalayang araw sa ating lahat. Nakakakaba pala to be in this podium, at papakinggan ka ng mga former…

Once upon a time in UP Diliman when I first taught Algebra and Trigonometry to kids.

I had a lot of fun that time. For the first time, I became a volunteer teacher with the invitation of a classmate when we met each other at the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice. For the first time, I taught Algebra and Geometry to 30 students (of Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma High School). For the first time, I experienced what it’s like to be a teacher, giving lecture in front of a class, and holding…

I like Lemons and Calamansi, too: A Response to The Varsitarian

When I was young, I was fascinated with the taste of lemons. When I had dry cough, my lola usually squeezes some lemons she gathered from the backyard on a cup, and let me drink it. She lets me not drink those kiddie tablets from the drugstore, as they might prolong my sickness, she thought. She prefers alternative medicines like oregano and some stuff to cure our little ailment. That progresses…