Malditang Librarian

I watched Solo... well, solo . I had been following Star Wars since The Force Awakens (I only watched the original trilogy after that, I know I'm late). In the first movie Star Wars: A New Hope , when the hero Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet Tatooine, he needed a fast ship. Here's when Luke and Obi-Wan Kenobi meets the charming smuggler Han Solo, an iconic role played by Harrison Ford. Han Solo, his ship the Millenium Falcon, and his loyal Wookie partner Chewbacca have been very popular among Star Wars fans. Solo is the second of the Star Wars stand-alone movies, next to 2015's Rogue One . The movie tells the origin story of the young Han Solo before A New Hope , how he came to be a pilot and his relationship with his frenemy Lando Calrissian. In The Empire Strikes Back , it is implied that Lando and Han had a long history together and the Solo movie attempts to tell it. It tries to tell the story of what makes Han Solo: how he got his name , how he met Chewbacc...

I quit Instagram. My profile is still up and I'm still getting regular e-mails about the pictures I've missed, but I have no desire to be back. This is not a post preaching about the ills of social media and I'm not discouraging anyone from using Instagram, Facebook, or any social media platform. My point is that we must use the tools best for what we need and enjoy, and not just sign up for the latest craze just because it's trending. Many people say that social media often makes people depressed than happy. We just see the best versions of people we know and the highlights of their lives. Social media has trained us to respond to attention and grow addicted to them. They have their advantages, but everything has a dark side when we use it too much. Facebook has come under scrutiny lately because of privacy issues, and I think more and more people are also being wary. This has been the decade of social media, but I think many more people are questioning it too. ...

My first *official* job as a librarian was in Guang Ming College , a free college established in 2014 by Fo Guang Shan, a Chinese Buddhist organization in the Philippines. I have long been interested in Buddhism even before that, and one of the reasons I worked there is because I wanted to learn more about it. It's been two years since I left, and I still wanted to learn more. I read books, but I wanted to experience meditation and learn more about the teachings. The college is currently located in Mabuhay Temple in Manila but will eventually move to a new campus in Tagaytay, Cavite. Fo Guang Shan Mabuhay Temple in Manila, Philippines has an annual program called Humanistic Academy of Life and Arts (a.k.a. 'HALA'), a free educational program lasting for 3 months. This program started in 2007 and we're now on Batch 13. I was interested since it includes a month-long retreat in Taiwan, which will be on July. I applied and fortunately, I got accepted. We started last ...