I am definitely inclined.

A quickie ( Read more... )

This time last week my buddies and I would have been submerged in the waters of Puerto Galera. Today I find myself still yearning to be underwater, set adrift on cool flowing currents, and engulfed in the gentle bubbles of my own regulator ( Read more... )

I find myself re-reading Dawkins' The God Delusion as I prepare myself for the semester ahead. I don't know what to make of the fact that I had very little trouble getting a copy of it here in Manila (I had assumed the book would have been banned here). It's strange reading it in a place where I was brought up in much the same way that Dawkins ( Read more... )

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A Rudd Slide in Australia, and a mud slide in the Philippines. There's a mixed bag in the news for me tonight.

I arrived in Tokyo University to speak at this, only to encounter a city completely drenched. Just as the sun had begun to reassert itself, something happened that totally rocked my worldI was actually on the podium when it hit. I thought I was just getting dizzy after sculling a Japanese coffee called "Brendy" (Blendy, get it?). I actually ( Read more... )

If I could escape
And re-create a place as my own world
And I could be your favorite boy
Forever, perfectly together
Tell me girl, now wouldn't that be sweet?

I'm back in Tokyo. Details soon.

When i was a schoolboy in Manila our classes were named after catholic saints: "Grade IV - St. Ignatius", "Grade II -- St. Francis Xavier ( Read more... )

Would someone please supply five evocative words to help me sharpen my pen? It's like this