IT'S A PANDAN LIFE ...!

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. ~ Jean Baudrillard In this strange car We're driving slow I want to get out of this driving seat And take the passenger's Will you let me? When we reach there We won' t be able to run Or walk Or stand still We'll lose our footings But we won't fall We'll fly high.

The living are just the dead on holiday. ~ Anonymous Note: This entry is my attempt to resume writing again after a long hiatus. The long semester break is going to end soon. How time flies. One would think that this 2 ½ month break is LONG and we teachers would be shaking legs in the office or at home but it wasn’t the case where I was concerned. I WORKED throughout the break. The only time I really, really, really didn’t work was when I went for a 10D8N vacay in the States. That was it. You can check my leave record: the only leave I took was for the States trip. The break started at the end of April. For the first two weeks I was busy with marking papers, keying in the marks and going to schools to evaluate those trainee teachers under my supervision. Other than these, I would be in the office, mostly working on writing articles. All in all I worked on one journal article, which I had to revise a few times, and two conference articles. These took up a lot of my time and were very t...