September 2011
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“Being deeply loved by someone give you Strength, while loving someone deeply...”
– Lao Tzu
Attended Ban Ki Moon’s lecture at uni yesterday (Tuesday the 6th). It’s funny how I had always gripe about political figures who don’t have a clean English accent. I know that I won’t do from now onwards. Even if I came late and therefore only listened to a “live” version of his talk on one of the Case Room projector screens, I was no less inspired than the few...
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The...”
– A. A. Milne
Language, learning, identity, privilege IThink By JAMES SORIANO August 24, 2011, 4:06am
MANILA, Philippines — English is the language of learning. I’ve known this since before I could go to school. As a toddler, my first study materials were a set of flash cards that my mother used to teach me the English alphabet. My mother made home conducive to learning English: all my storybooks and...
“God doesn’t have a cellphone, but He is my favourite contact. He...”
