by Connie Veneracion on February 28, 2005
If anyone should ask me what my favorite book is, my answer wouldn’t be Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings or Rowling’s Harry Potter series. It won’t even be anything by James Clavell, Amy Tan or F. Sionil Jose, my favorite authors. My choice would be Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. Why? Because it [...]
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by Connie Veneracion on February 2, 2005
The Department of Education has issued a memorandum that the 205 school days in the academic year shall be devoted exclusively to class work.
Attending seminars, planting trees, holding beauty pageants, mounting athletic contests or staging a parade of nations on UN Day should not eat into the time alotted for classroom instructions. [Malaya Online]
Alright. I [...]
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