Open Pages

Open Pages is my personal blog site. It's a collection of my thoughts, insights, memories and lessons learned. I want to share this blog to my friends and family. You can give feedbacks too when you want to.

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Hello. My name is Mildred. I am an educator with more than 14 years of experience. I am currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with concentration in Designing Digital Learning in Schools at George Mason University. I am also a mommy to two beautiful young children. Since becoming both a parent and an educator I have always been looking for ways to continually nourish the mind of my children and students. In my experience, I discovered that there is no status quo when it comes to mind development. It is either growing or slowly deteriorating. So it has been a daily quest for me to creatively provide nourishment of the mind.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Trust In The Lord

I hear this song over and over in my head. It's a song sang by the Kids Praise from one of my favorite albums:

Trust, trust in the Lord
And lean not on your own understanding
In all, all of your ways acknowledge Him
He makes your path straight...

Dear Lord may You always be the center of my life. Help me each day to put my whole trust in You. Amen.

Multi-tasking

How easily one is able to shift from doing one thing to another will determine his or her multi-tasking ability. Like chatting with someone while writing a blog, at the same time listening to a radio program, checking bank accountssss online, keeping track of ins and outs of $$ (or outs and outs), and that too, worrying about how to lose weight.

I'd say I'm an average multi-task person. Super multi-task people would be those who can do all these and more while half aspleep. Magnifico!

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Costly Mistakes

Literally this means losing $$ because of making some stupid mistakes. Like home tv-shopping. The minute I put down the phone I regret ever buying the product. Anyway, we learn from experience and it's not always free.

People usually make mistakes when the focus and purpose is momentarily forgotten and attention is magically entranced by the seemingly attractive offers at hand. And when the magic is gone, one say "wait a minute, did I just say yes to that? I don't even need that!". Grrrrr...