PLUR

• Peace - Hostility typically serves no purpose other than to defend an ego that is lacking inner peace.

• Love - Acts and feelings of goodwill towards all others are a moral imperative with their own rewards.

• Unity - This can mean either that:

We are all united in the human condition, or

As social beings, the feeling of connectedness with ( Read more... )

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Shake, Rattle and Roll 3's episode III, entitled Nanay, features a laugh-out-loud scene where a still-D-lister Ai Ai delas Alas got swallowed by a toilet bowl, apparently inhabited by an avenging Undin, a mermaid-like creature that's a cross between a tadpole and a siokoy. To appease the avenging Undin, a still-hot Marilyn Reynes had to retrieve ( Read more... )

The bad thing about American Idol is its absolute lack of street credibility. Once you join American Idol, you are tagged as a sellout, and no matter how "edgy" or "unconvential" you are, chances are that people will still think your being edgy and unconventional is just another form of selling out. Bo Bice, Chris Daughtry, and David Cook will ( Read more... )

The loose change in my pocket came in handy as we approached the ticket vending machine. The LRT3 was the fastest way we can get to Ateneo, my blockmate KQ said. It was raining hard on a Thursday and a steady stream of cars was surely clogging Aurora boulevard by then. After all, another blockbuster Ateneo-LaSalle game, indeed another blockbuster ( Read more... )

The news gave me a better jolt than the cup of hot black brewed coffee that I was sipping. The headline read:

Wall Street awakes to 2 storied firms falling.

Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed. ( Read more... )

From the Jasper/Goldberg Adult ADHD Quiz:

Results of your
Attention Deficit Disorder Quiz

You scored a total of  96

It is highly likely that you are presently suffering from adult attention deficit disorder, according to your responses on this self-report questionnaire. You should not take this as a diagnosis of any sort, or a ( Read more... )

* The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

* Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

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This song evokes good memories of high school, when everything and everyone was frivolous.

And being frivolous is totally OK.

The Way (1998)
Fastball

They made up their minds
And they started packing
They left before the sun came up that day
An exit to eternal summer slacking
But where were they going
Without ever knowing the way?
They drank up the wine
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