Welcome to my website.

Thanks a lot for dropping by.

This is where I put together the poems, essays, stories, and research works I have written over the years. I am a teacher, writer, and lifelong learner with varied interests: prose and poetry, education, language learning, sports (basketball, boxing, and MMA), and self-improvement. My main advocacy is self-improvement, and I intend to contribute to the pursuit of convincing people to embrace self-improvement so that they can reach their full potential.

I am into creative and technical writing. I write about all of my interests. I use two logos to identify my works. The “Mad’s Workshop” logo represents my works, while the “Mukhang Poet” logo is for my creative writing endeavors.

I came up with the idea of creating this website just for fun. It’s a “hit-and-miss” endeavor, for I am not a techie and did not take any course in “webpage development.” I know not much about coding. I am 1,633 miles away from home, working as a teacher here in South Korea, and if I were to allow my mind to be idle, it would become somebody else’s workshop. Teaching and maintaining this website keep me sane and make my plate full. Thus, boredom and idleness could not find a slot in my daily schedule.

Since I started to take this website more seriously, I could no longer find time to be bored and idle, especially when I decided to create videos from the contents of this website and post them on YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook.

It’s also a personal challenge. I am trying to see if I can still learn something new. It’s a struggle, for I have no background in IT, but I am learning slowly but surely.

This website is a work in progress. There are lots of improvements that should be made. I love doing things my way; thus, painstakingly, I built this website on a “miss and hit” basis. Moving forward, as I get used to the nuances of web design, I will try to improve this.

It took me more than three years to come up with this website. I started doing it in 2014, and it was only in 2017 that I decided to buy the domain (madligaya.com) and have my website introduced officially.

Aside from wanting to have fun and be productive, I put up this site for my other passion – WRITING. TEACHING is the other one. And why do I write? I explained the reasons here.

Yes, writing is one of my three passions, and I want to have a repository for my works. And there’s no better place to store them than online. But please pardon my shortcomings in the technical aspects of web design, for I am a non-IT person.

My writings are simple, and I am sure most of you (I presume) can produce works better than the ones I have here. Given my limited coding skills, the design of this website is amateurish. 

I don’t know if my works have literary and academic value. But they are valuable, my personal treasure, and I intend to preserve them. At the same time, I also wish to share them with those who may find them interesting. I have no hurt feelings if the readers consider them otherwise. 

I find immense joy and self-satisfaction while writing these works. Those feelings become greater when I read them, no matter how simple they may be. The sense of accomplishment I feel when I finish and read them is just so wonderful. I happen to believe that success is a journey, not a destination.

Please feel free to comment on anything you read here. Criticism is a catalyst for improvement. Thus, I need them, and I value them.

This site and its contents are works in progress. Whenever I see errors, I correct them. I am sure there are many things to correct. Perhaps you can help me find them as well.

I have been writing and blogging for a long time, and I wish to continue. Just lately, I also turned to vlogging. My blogs here are commentaries on my areas of interest, namely literature, literary criticism, language, education, educational management, sports, movies, and self-improvement. There are instances when I  may feel obliged to write socio-political commentaries. I have also uploaded some blogs and articles I have written to other websites here.

I write in two (2) languages: English and Filipino. This site, as previously mentioned, is also a repository for my works in both languages. I have to admit that I also dream of writing stories, essays, and poems in Korean. I don’t know how long it will take before that becomes a reality. Learning Korean is a mighty struggle for me, but I know someday I can write poems and stories in the said language.

I prepared a guide for the visitors to my website. Please click on the link below.

Guide To My Website