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Children are always a source of joy and pride for parents. A cliché, I know, but it's something I can attest to and live by. Take these, for example: View the rest of the set . Congratulations, anak! Mom and Tatay are proud of you. :)

llustration by Helen Oxenbury Walkers put together some of the greatest children's literature drawn by the best contemporary illustrators. What results is a beautiful compendium of books , the Walker Illustrated Classics . via @guykawasaki

Ile Aux Canards Coral Reef Noumea in Noumea Nemo must be in there somewhere. There are also vistas available from the Philippines . A time-sink, this one, but worth it.

Messed around with MSPaint and pixlr .

A local anaesthetic effect of ambroxol has been observed in the rabbit eye model which may be explained by the sodium channel blocking properties. [...] These pharmacological features are in accordance with the ancillary observation in clinical efficacy studies for the treatment with ambroxol of upper respiratory tract symptoms that leads to rapid relief of pain [...]. Cytokine release from blood but also tissue-bound mononuclear and polymorphonuclear cells was found to be significantly reduced by ambroxol in vitro. Who writes these things?! More importantly, who reads them? Forgive me: writer's block. This too shall pass.

Found this amazing video:

"Nicknames" in Tagalog. I've been given a few in my lifetime: Sadot. "Lazy" in Ilocano. My high school freshman agriculture teacher (he was Visayan, go figure) gave me this nickname because I was horrible in tending to my plot. We were each given a plot to plant eggplants, okra (gumbo) and onions. My harvests were usually the smallest, my plot had weeds all over, and the soil just looked utterly unhealthy. Oh, well. I survived freshman year — I wasn't quite the "sadot" after all. Weird. No explanation here. I am weird. But when that word comes from an Earth Science (high school again, fourth year this time) teacher (she had passed away, may she rest in peace) who didn't exactly look "normal", it takes on a whole new dimension. That nickname stemmed from her catching me wearing makeshift 3D (stereoscopic, I think, is a more apt term?) glasses (took colored plastic candy wrappers and stuck them in my classmate's eyeglasses) during...