Rein Winds

2008 Cavite Division Schools Press Conference - a yearly convention of prolific young journalists in the division of Cavite who will vie for a Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) slot and hopefully qualify for the national competition (NSPC).

Tanza National Comprehensive High School, for more than 12 years, has reigned supreme in the  overall standing of all private and public high schools in the entire province. In fact it now holds the 13 Overall Champion for the Best Performing School trophies out of the 14 years DSPC has been held - a feat too difficult to duplicate. Accordingly, this achievement was made possible by the patience, dedication, intellect and selfless tutoring and service by The Clarion’s/ Ang Klaryon’s adviser par excellance, MS. AMOR S. KAGAHASTIAN, we fondly call her MA’AM K. Read the rest of this entry »

The registration committee at work!

I may have not been given the opportunity to listen to any of the meaningful and worthwhile talks presented during the WordCamp Philippines 2008 as a regular camper, but I had the chance to work with great people with brilliant minds and awesome characters as a volunteer.

Held in College of St. Benilde, Manila on Sept. 6, WordCamp Phillippines was a gathering of great bloggers all over the country (and some other parts of the world too).

Paul Villacorta, one volunteer from Cebu, was checking his Plurk account (notice our SOS lunch: a loaf of bread had saved our sanity :D) Read the rest of this entry »

Due to heavy rains brought by tropical depression LAWIN, slippery mountain trails and caves, and as much as we do not want to put anyone to any unlikely situation, we had, on the 11th hour, to reset the TOUR DE PINAS BANAUE-SAGADA STOP. Read the rest of this entry »

Presentation. Chapter Test items. Grades computations. Bulletin board updates. Documentation of the The Clarion/Ang Klaryon exhibit. Maintenance of the classroom and the office. Sorting of the papers piled up on my table. Balancing my own budget. Budgeting monthly salary. Paying bills. Geline’s baro’t saya for her school’s Buwan ng Wika celebration. Read the rest of this entry »

Have been virtually and physically away for quite a while.

Have been busy presenting lectures to student-writers and school paper advisers of different schools here in Cavite and some municipalities/cities of CALABARZON.

Exhausted, I checked my mail as I arrived home from Calamba City.

I felt great and excited to read an invitation to volunteer for the First WordCamp in Southeast Asia. It will be held on 6 September 2008 at College of St. Benilde, Taft Avenue, Manila.

It will be a gathering of WordPress Bloggers, seemingly a group of brilliantly extraordinary minds and expressively creative souls. (Would it be arrogance to make me think am one of them, too? :D)

For more details, please click philippines.wordcamp.org

Here are the generous sponsors that make the event a success.

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
• Free Online Flash Games
• Wazzup Manila Philippines
• Real Estate CRM
• Real Estate Website Designers
• Orange County Real Estate
• Auto Insurance Quotes
• Lane Systems Inc.
• RedMedia
• Orange County Business Lawyer
• Cebu Pacific Air
• Reality Wedding Videos

Goosebumps were all over me as I introduced the former editors in chief of our beloved school paper during the launching ceremony of the Grand Exhibit we organized in commemoration of our The Clarion’s 56th year (TNCHS English paper) and Ang Klaryon’s 20th (Filipino community paper). Read the rest of this entry »

It was raining, and it was traffic. Situations like these, roads to and from Manila are thanklessly tiresome.

At about 30 minutes past 8 pm, hunger was starting to strike me. Exhaustion was beginning to haunt and defeat me. Good thing I was seated beside a very jovial father whom I instantly shared a chat with. Read the rest of this entry »

Came home late tonight.

Had to get our tarpaulin banners done for our school paper grand exhibit is scheduled next Saturday and my co-teacher and ever-loved adviser-mentor asked me to have them ready by Sunday. She requested me to have the announcement streamers be posted by tomorrow, Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Did you know…?
the Philippines’ organic red rice
(Oryza Rufipogon) comprises five bioactives and biological effects?

1) Organic red rice contains the powerful antioxidant Co - Enzyme Q10
which counters histamine. This helps asthma and allergy sufferers.

2) It has Tocotrienols (which are 6,000 times more potent than Vitamin E)
and Tocopherols. These lower cholesterol levels of LDL and elevate HDL levels. Read the rest of this entry »