1979 - 1990

Except for doing Grades 4 and 5 in only one year and winning a few local quiz bees, singing in the municipality's best school choir and being a member of the province's best speech choir, a largely uneventful childhood. The bummer part: Hearing classmates talk about having a good time at the perya on barangay fiesta week evenings, and ( Read more... )

Dysfunctional 2

Not even all the pillows on my bed
can muffle the shouting outside my room.

I hear reproaches and insults,
angry words and weeping.
They tell me to pretend it never happens.
They say it should not be spoken of
outside the home
because that would be shameful.

I want to go out there
and shout at them
to stop...

but they'd only ( Read more... )

Dysfunctional

They can hear the screaming
over at the next block.

The neighbors look like
they're watching a movie
...only this isn't one.

I try to write about
happy things,
such as love and friendship
and family that cares about you
and adventure and success
and happily ever after...

Who am I kidding?

I don't even believe myself.
( Read more... )

Hrm. My Globe Visibility works very well when I'm beside a window in our third-floor digs. ( Continue if you dare... )

Our book du jour, bbs, is the last installment in the Serrano legacy series. Things turn out all right for some of my favorite characters, but tragedy devastates others.

This is one series I wish didn't have an ending. There is the lingering feeling that wherever they may be, the characters in the Serrano legacy series are just off somewhere ( Read more... )

They call it Valentine's Day.

Some call it Single's Awareness Day (SAD, because even if most people won't admit it, they are).

( Continue if you dare... )

When I was last on Rescreatu, my Respals (Rescreatu pals) and I got to talking about instant messaging. Since they're international (some live in the US, some in Australia, some in the UK, some from Hong Kong, and there are even two from Austria and Thailand), they mostly use AIM or MSN. I was one of the few using Yahoo Messenger since that is the ( Read more... )

...Now why on earth would anyone attempt to do that?

That's what I aim to find out from our book du jour, bbs. "Stealing the Elf-king's Roses" is by Diane Duane, whose Young Wizards Series I am also presently trying to collect.

I loved Kit, Nita, Dairine and Ponch in the Young Wizards Series, so I am wondering what's up with anyone who wanted to ( Read more... )

Our book du jour, bbs, is The Celtic Riddle by Lyn Hamilton, which the blurb calls a "puzzle mystery".

I hope it ranks up there with other puzzle mysteries. Haven't read any books by this author yet, so I thought I'd try it.

Yeah, I like Celtic knotwork. Specially what has come to be recognized as the "charmed" symbol -- the Triquetra. Love it, ( Read more... )

...that is the question.

I hath a book I'm interested in reading... (see other post for details).

I also bought a Globe Visibility prepaid pack the other evening, still in the process of trying it out. Now I can write at home and immediately post online. Mwaha.

Don't tell my boss.

Anyway... back to the original question.

To read or to surf?

No, Karen, ( Read more... )