Whose Head?Two days ago, Inq7.net posted a photo of the all-female legal team of the young Filipina allegedly raped by U.S. soldiers in Subic. One was a former Miss Philippines; the rest of the crew themselves did not look bad--they were slim enough, tall enough, fair enough, more than plain enough ( Read more... )

Turning

One of the inevitabilities of turning thirty is having friends begetting babies. Like in my case, Onnie and Ruth, my friends in Manila. I am proud of you, guys.


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I turned 30 today.

I shall always be young.

Not too long ago, someone (in real life, not in LJ) asked me to write a composition about my hometowns. I decided it's not a bad idea to share it in LJ:


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If I Were in Merriam-Webster Dictionary


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Missing Inday Badiday


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A Reason to Live


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Now and Forever
It’s one hour past off time, and here I am still in my work station listening to Basil Valdez wondrously belt out Ngayon at Kailanman, which I have illegally downloaded via Dogpile. The song is a veritable jewel of a classic, recorded by Basil almost three decades ago when he was younger, more popular, more promising, better looking ( Read more... )

A Semblance of Social Life for Pink Idiocy

I went out with the office gang last Friday night. We had dinner at an eat-all-you-can restaurant along Gorordo Avenue and relocated afterward to a coffee shop called something like Offroad (I kept on saying Softroad, to the amusement of everyone). The coffe shop was an open-air affair, and I enjoyed it ( Read more... )

1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
( my answers )