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It's been a while since I last posted here. While my hobbies and interests have not changed, my priorities have. I'm currently working with my sister to establish our social enterprise: THE GREEN ITCH PROJECT.

We were inspired by the concept of social entrepreneurship and decided to put our own spin to it. We basically make craft products out of recycled paper. People can purchase our recycled products or better yet, give us their used paper stash in exchange for the products they want. It's a very small step, but we're hoping to raise awareness among the youth to come up with their own social projects, even their own "green itch" enterprise.

I made this poster from a photo I took several months ago. I was watering the plants when I got startled by a big, fat, green caterpillar inconspicuously positioned on one of the branches.

*To see the full-sized poster, visit http://thegreenitch.multiply.com
**Feel free to use the poster, but kindly link back to the this blog :)

March 29, 2008 | 12:55 PM Comments  1 comments

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Heat Wave

It's getting hotter and hotter each day to the point that the climate is driving me to indolence.
Ironically, I want to have my summer classes. Yeah, I'm craving for those sines, cosines and tangents.

Sometimes I think grades are overrated. Especially when you have this cranky grading system in school.

Grades are just another manifestation of how meritocratic our society is. Meritocracy isn't bad, not unless it drives people into insanity and crab mentality. It's supposed to develop better individuals, but with that, we neglect the development of the society. An externality of meritocracy would be poverty. Now, poverty is certainly something we reject.

On the other hand, communism drives a portion or two of a population into idleness knowing that they shall also be provided regardless of the effort they put in to help and doesn't exactly help reaching the pinnacle of human abilities.

That's the hard reality we have to live with. And so far, I haven't seen a successful form of co-existence between these two values.

*sigh*

April 24, 2004 | 7:52 AM Comments  0 comments

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Superwoman and Me

Another year added to my life. Another reality check on how well I've performed on my life report card.
It's funny that when you reach a certain age, people suddenly expect to be someone else, to change at a blink of an eye and to be superwoman.
Well, I've always been a firm believer that somebody else's satisfaction is not the measure of my person. Then comes along a band of adults brainwashing you to believe otherwise. What's worse is that they expect me to act as clay eager to be molded by their experienced hands.
Pretty much, ninety-six hours of my vacation was spent on a weighing scale of values and ideals.
Being a leader, people expect me to be perfect. But I'm not, I just am. It just hit me that appeasing everybody's expectations and being perfect is not the source of my fulfillment but rather standing up for my beliefs on the battle front was enough.
Maybe I'm still not superwoman. I'm still walking on cemented ground and not flying around with my x-ray vision. But there sure is more than enough humanity in me to be my own somebody.

April 6, 2004 | 10:45 AM Comments  0 comments

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