Nothing like wrapping your fingers around mine...
Hello! I’m Inday I. Nagintay and I’m in a long distance relationship (LDR). Oh that sounded as if I was an alcoholic. Happiness for people like me is quite simple: It’s being with the love of our lives…literally.
And last February 3, Dodong D. Cierto (my hunk-a-burnin’-love) came home for quickie LDR homecoming…
The more things change and the more things remain the same.
If there was one Coke commercial I remember with fondness it would be the one where a group of teenagers were on top of a mountain singing ñ ìI like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmonyî. Several years later they would re-shoot that particular Coke commercial.
Same commercial but different. Its the same mountain, with the same people and the same song. Well nearly the same save for more people ñ perhaps the sons and daughters of the first people singing on the mountain top?
New people and same song song.
How times change and how times remain the same.
But is not the old commercial song all about teaching?
Maybe
I guess happiness is teaching and passing on what one knows can give one joy. And a student is for all intents and purposes the son and daughter of the teacher? So in a sense a student is the intellectual child of the teacher?
Perhaps
Anyway.
Last Saturday, I shared several cans of Coke with the people and scholars of TechTanod, a classroom of sorts for young people. TechTanod is a project of the Philippine Blog Awards (PBA), RockEd and Globe Telecom’s Bangong Pinoy initiative. A project that aims to teach those willing to learn how to effectively use the net for research, blogging, disaster preparedness, networking, business and advocacy .
Anyway, The Coke came in cans and the students distibuted it in plastic drinking glasses so that everyone can share. And it struck me that this teaching is not one-way street but it is open and exchanges can go both ways.
The teacher can teach the students and the teacher can learn from the students. The Master can also learn from its Padawan.
I guess the old Coke song reminded me of TechTanod. And that makes my ace smile and the heart warm up. Despite, what is happening in our world – whether it be in the past, present or in the future or whatever disaster comes- there is always room for hope and effort.
As the old Coke commercial said, I’d like to teach the world to sing.
Hello I’m Jayvee from A Bugged Life and I have a confession. For quite some time now I’ve been trying to solve a dilemma with regards to my hobby. It’s no secret that I’ve been an avid gamer since I was young and I’ve become resigned to the fact that late nights on the computer, playing with other people from around the world is the best means of stress release. The issue is two-fold. First, my schedule only permits me to play late at night till the wee hours of the morning — this is fine, to be honest as most of the games I play (see photo: the beta version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on a sexy Sony VAIO CW) are with people from the opposite time zone, which means when I’m gaming at midnight on a Saturday weekend (oh no, now you know what I do on weekends!), I’m playing with people who are just about to start their weekend morning.