My Manila

Our office trip to Bantayan Island (see yesterday's post) wasn't only for rest and recreation. The more important objective was team...

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was be...

In 1973, the previously all-male Ateneo de Manila University accepted its first women students. 127 enrolled as freshmen, and 35 transfere...

This statue of St. Joseph with the child Jesus stands in front of the Jesuit Residence inside the Loyola Heights campus of the Ateneo de Ma...

The new track oval of the Ateneo de Manila University is blue, the school's color. It goes around the Moro Lorenzo Football Field (foo...

As I promised, here is the Heritage Room of the Ateneo de Manila Grade School where yesterday's mural is located. The room displays me...

The mural inside the Heritage Room of the Ateneo de Manila Grade School shows images from the 150-year history of the school. Based on thi...

Today is the Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola , the founder of the Society of Jesus . Before his spiritual conversion at the age of 30, ...

There is an old story by Ateneo de Manila Grade School teacher Mr. Juan Javier which explains how the Holy Guardian Angels became the patr...

Because of the presence of the President of the Philippines during the Ignatian Festival (see yesterday's post), all participants (and t...

My husband and I attended the Ateneo de Manila University's Ignatian Festival last Saturday, which was keynoted by the president of th...

The chapel of the Ateneo de Manila Grade School is called the Chapel of the Holy Guardian Angels . Very fitting patrons for a school full ...

CITY DAILY PHOTO THEME DAY: FACADE • When the Jesuits decided to move the main campus of the Ateneo de Manila from Padre Faura in the C...

The Rizal Library at sunset. I like how the tree's shadow on the wall makes it seem more than five stories tall.

Every three years, the Ateneo de Manila University awards alumni who excelled in sports during their school days. They are inducted into t...

Two of the Philippines' most popular mobile phone service providers have cell sites inside the Quezon City campus of Ateneo de Manila ...

The roof deck of the cylindrical Manila Observatory has a metal rail running around it with all the signs of the Zodiac , which I thought ...

  The cylindrical building of the Manila Observatory was constructed to house one instrument, a spectroheliograph . Developed by George Ha...

The decorative facade of the Manila Observatory (see yesterday's post) composed of patterned cement blocks is so mid-century modern , ...

This is the building in the Manila Observatory complex (see yesterday's post) where most of the research programs are located. These ...