For those who aren't familiar with the cuckoo bird, the cuckoo lays its eggs in the nest of other birds of a different specie. The nest-owner then gets the impression that the egg and the hatchling is its own young and treats it as such, divesting the cuckoo of responsibility of rearing its chick ( Read more... )

Since my Yahoo! account got hacked, I've had to put up with a lot of hassle. Just when I thought it couldn't be any worse, I can't access my other blog. So I guess I'll have to migrate that here. Oh well. It wasn't my idea anyway.

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It bothers me when my friends just give up on life. I was very recently tsk-tsking at the way my school was condoning, nay, encouraging, industrial espionage when my barkada shrugged it off and said, well, that's the way it's done in the real world. Business is like that. You might as well teach it. Brings a whole new level to the line "educated ( Read more... )

Just to vent ( Read more... )

When I was six years old, I thought my friends would never change. That I would grow up and grow old with all of them. A couple of decades older, most of the closest friends I had either moved away or went in different directions. The good thing is, I've never really lost touch with them. And those that I have (we're talking grade school here) I've ( Read more... )

*For reference, Maria Clara is (or was) the pinnacle of being Filipina. Beautiful, soft-spoken, demure, quietly intelligent, religious, obedient and thoroughly conservative. She was the tragic heroine in the national hero Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere. Of course, the piece was written in the late 1880s thus the mores of the time were prominent ( Read more... )

It's like a script that runs in my head. I let the rumor mill ground me down just a tad again and the congratulations are in order (they get over the inital shock), I cite my commencement (hey, I really can't help it) then comes the inevitable question: Is he a lawyer too ( Read more... )

It's the oddest thing. I've been told many times over that I'm a martyr for my friends. It has been a constant source of friction between me and my mother. Yet I seem to have a collection of prima donna pals that really should be slapped in the face for exhibiting the behavior that they do. Or the way they treat and speak to me ( Read more... )

Greed:Very Low

Gluttony:Very Low

Wrath:Low

Sloth:Very Low

Envy:Very Low

Lust:Very Low

Pride:Very Low

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