school
5 School Essentials you can’t leave home without
Pixabay 1. Your notebook and pen. The notebook and pen may be the most important invention in all of civilization. The notebook and pen is enduring even through technological change: portable an…
social media
Social media: the good, the bad, and the ugly
I would just like to share this essay I wrote for a finals exam for the subject Group Dynamics. The question is: The 21st Century is highly digitized, given the fast-paced expanding growth and d…
wealth
Chinkee Tan shares The Power to Create Wealth at Victory Iloilo
I've been reading the blog of speaker Chinkee Tan for some time now. His insights on money and how we spend it hits me most of the time and inspires me to save rather than spend. When Victory…
Shirley Jackson
Book review: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, New York: Penguin Books, ©1959 “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids a…
school
Our short video on Reference Services in the Library
This is our last project for our summer classes! This is for MLIS 608: Advanced Reference and Information Services under Ms. Ana Mae Cantel. This is just a simple video of simple transactions in t…
personal
"Who wrote the book on goodbye?"
Yesterday, there was supposed to be a meet-up with some classmates from my college batch. Only two of us showed up. Another didn't feel so well after a trip. The one who told us to meet didn&#…
travel
Realizations after my first trip abroad
Some thoughts after my first trip abroad... traveling, though quite expensive, is a great educational experience. You get to experience things in another culture and get to compare your own. You rea…
personal
The Saturday night currently
At this point, I think this blog isn't sure what's its going to be about. I was about to post a review of the excellent novel The Circle by Dave Eggers, a dystopian novel of a hi-tech social …
travel
Hong Kong in 3 days
Last June 1-4, I went out of the country for the first time! I went to Hong Kong for three days and two nights. My grand-aunt was planning to go, so I just went along. It was exciting, but after thre…
work
Endings again
The sky was heavy with solid grey clouds and made the sunset shine so bright as if the sky was on fire. Yesterday, my contract for my current job ended. I was absent from work for my last day be…
Malditang Librarian has been blogging about books, librarianship, and Iloilo City since 2016. I am a member of Iloilo Bloggers Society and I write for IBS Digital Network.
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