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Gamification makes learning more fun for the kids and easier on you!

Not all of us parents are comfortable tutoring our kids. I remember the time I spent tutoring my kids. While they were away at school, I was making reviewers for them to answer as part of their daily practice. Math was one of the hardest to make reviewers for. Making Math problems took twice as long because I needed to think up different Math problems, then solve them to make sure the solutions would actually work. It was exhausting work!

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The neglected blog is back!

Horrors! I just realized it has been months since I updated this blog. Serves me right for maintaining 4 personal blogs and writing for another advocacy blog as well. Haha!

Well, I hope to rectify this by doing some micro blogging on this site. There are many things to write about from a personal standpoint so it does not need too much effort.

I actually miss personal writing. I have had too many media and advocacy events and they have filled up most of my writing days. Yet so many personal things have been happening around me and I never got around to blogging about some of them.

So here’s crossing my fingers that I get allocate more time from my hectic skeds to write about these. Maybe I should repost some of my microblogs on Facebook. They eventually get buried in my FB timeline and forgotten. At least here, it is saved for posterity.

 

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Ecobricking – a baby step toward plastic waste reduction (with updated drop-off points)

The Philippines is the third largest contributor to ocean plastic and is 1 of 5 countries that produce half of the world’s plastic waste. In short, we are Plastic Country.

Plastics have been such a convenient part of day-to-day living in the Philippines. From food containers to large plastic cabinets, plastics have been a boon in the sense that they are more affordable to Filipinos with tight budgets. But this affordability has also come at a price. We have become so used to using (and disposing of) plastic that we have become unmindful of its global effect. Something not often seen in developed countries are products that come in sachets but here, it is a part of our lives. The disposal of hundreds of thousands of sachets daily contribute significantly to plastic waste.

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