My Rocking Cradle

Cathy mentioned a good website for expats over lunch last Sunday. I only got to visit it this morning while my Little Dynamo keeps on bargaining for more time in his bubble bath. How I wish I knew about this website sooner. It is called Korea4expats. I would definitely make sure to have a busy summer now [...]

Signs of a troubled economy? Aside from the Korean won hitting its 11-year all time low… residents of South Korea will start to use 50,000-won this coming June. Korea has admirably held on to only three paper bills (10,000-won, 5,000-won and 1,000-won) for thirty-six (36) years but the current global crisis is proving to be too tough. [...]

As an expat family living here in Seoul, we renew our visa and Certificate of Alien Registration every year. We recently went to the Immigration Office in Mokdong and we applied for the renewal of our visa and our re-entry permit. Let me share this to those in the same status as we are. My husband is an E-7 [...]

I just so love her – Oscars or not. Hers are just the best-toned arms in the world.

Little Dynamo and I had been excitedly waiting for the blooming of the flower in our veranda since we saw the first flower buds. Yesterday morning, we both screamed in delight to see one flower in full bloom. Just a week before March, and we’re blooming. We’re in Spring! We are just so looking forward [...]

If Koreans will have their way, almost all of the parents would want their child/ren to go to Ivy League universities in the US. The English language is a national obsession. English hagwons are everywhere here in South Korea. As early as seven (7) years old, children are being sent out to other countries, alone, to study [...]

  This afternoon, I got my new maroon machine-readable Philippine passport:-). I filed for the renewal of my passport last January 18 at the Philippine Embassy located in Itaewon. Processing for the renewal of passport takes one month from processing date. The one-month duration is the same even if one is renewing his passport in the [...]

The closest encounter I had with dolphins was the early morning boat ride to dolphin-watch in Panglao, Bohol. I had a great time watching the dolphins out in the sea in their untrained mode but I bet it would be great to watch what SeaWorld dolphins have to offer. Check out the Dolphin Bubbles site and watch how [...]

I first read Jane Eyre in high school. The only scene I remembered was the burning of the Thornfield Manor by the lunatic Bertha who was on top of the mansion while the fire was blazing. I have wanted to read it again but for some reason wasn’t able to until last December when I [...]

When Professor Emely Abagat emailed me about the launching of her book last December, I noted down that I will just have to ask my Pinay part-time helper to get a copy for me as she is a very active church-goer in Hyewha and could easily get one for me. Her book-launching date coincided with [...]