I find it amusing whenever my Korean students call me Titsah Xyla rather than Teacher Xyla. 1 What makes me more amused is that I never thought I would be called Teacher Xyla in my life. Yeah, I once dreamed of becoming a teacher but  hearing my name with the word teacher at the beginning feels [...]

One thing that I really do not like to experience is to get bored. I hate boredom. Well, who doesn’t right? The word boredom shouldn’t have been coined in the first place. Maybe that person has nothing to do so he/she thought of that word. Ohkay. Am I making sense here? But thanks to boredom, [...]

Happy and blessed 2009 to all of you. :) So how did you guys celebrate your new year? I’d love to read your comments. Actually, I do not know if this is really a happy new year for our family. It’s because we received a bad news from my aunts. Tatay, papa’s father1, had a [...]

I thought that only the priests could teach me good lessons through their homily during the midnight masses. I didn’t expect that I’ll be deeply touched by an old couple beside me two midnight masses ago. During the rite of peace, as we were greeting each other with “Peace be with you”, I heard the [...]