Archive for the 'Biotech' Category

Malunggay Stories

June 14, 2008

According to my WordPress blog stats, my three blog posts that have the most viewers are the following: Number one is Alternative Learning Systems, with 589 views. Number three is Alternative Learning Systems and EFA, with 396 views. I think it is safe to put the two numbers together.
What caught my attention, and got [...]

Weekend in Lucena

November 11, 2007

Barely an hour after we arrived in Lucena City yesterday, June Rodriguez called. “We are passing through Lucena. Can we have coffee at your place?” She was traveling with Joel Paredes’s team back from a biotech workshop in Bicol.
We invited the group to share lunch and celebrate my father-in-law’s 84th birthday. Over coffee, we talked [...]

Friday forum

October 13, 2007

This afternoon, Girlie dropped me off at the MRT station on her way to meet with her fellow volunteers at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. I took the MRT to the Taft Avenue station, then transferred to the LRT; got off at the Pedro Gil station, and walked to ASI, the Asian Social Institute.
I was [...]

Malunggay and 9/11

September 15, 2007

Yesterday, I crossed back to Cebu from Negros, taking a pump boat from the port of Sibulan, six kilometers north of Dumaguete. It was a short 25 minute trip to Barangay Liloan in Santander, the southernmost town of Cebu.
I couldn’t wait for the closing ceremonies of the Dumaguete workshop on biotech for local development. Another [...]