tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116655912011-11-28T08:48:29.193+08:00PEACE OF MIND. PURE AND BALANCED. SOOTHING.<hr>Joseph Bautistahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589474662633711083noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11665591.post-73289489949334144212009-09-06T04:01:00.011+08:002009-10-23T23:07:59.046+08:00

I am very thrilled that I now own a digital SLR camera. It is the single most expensive thing I bought for myself so far. Being the penny-pinch that I am, I spent a chunk of my savings for it over a new laptop or whim-gadget like an e-reader. A satisfying indication that I am really serious about my photography. It's Sony Alpha 700 (A700). Used. Not ashmed to say that I purchased a secondhand

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I have always wanted to see Alexandria for as long as I can remember. I do not recall when and where I learned of the ancient Egyptian capital, most probably in my high school history class, but the name left an everlasting impression in my mind. Though not fully knowing its history, the mental sound of Alexandria alone arises a glow of wonder and excitement. Alexandria... Obscure, distant image

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When words decide to take charge, once you feel them forming and rolling out fast from your lips, write it. What's spilled the first time never comes back. Doha 12:25 AM

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The moon shines over the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. The planets Venus, top left, and Jupiter, top right, came in close proximity with the moon as seen from Earth Monday... won't happen again until 2052. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) So, that's what it was. A magical interplay of heavenly bodies- Venus and Jupiter, two sparkling gems that seemed to fall like teardrops

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First evening of Eid Holidays, a post-Ramadan Islamic celebration that can be likened to Christmas. Bored was I, made an excuse to my mom and out I went. After buying cookies, my alibi, I decided to check the festivity at Souq Wagef- a traditional Qatari market place. I surmise it's the only location fully alive this time of the year where locals gather with family and friends as most shops and

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Related entry:Talk to meI had this horrible dream last night.Inside a moving bus I was, seated in the front seat. Heading home from school. Next thing I knew I was walking along a neighbourhood street. I had no idea how I got there but I kept trudging to a direction. I saw commotion, people shouting and running here and there as if there was an accident. My God! Had I been in that accident? Had

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My ambition is simple, and I have a plan. I surrender. I'm going to submit myself into the daily labor grind, work my ass off, but with one condition I'm going to stick up for no matter what: Before I reach thirty, I should have earned just enough to buy a small land in the suburb and build a house which I'm going to share with Tristan. Then I'll bid employment farewell forever. The ceiling of

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Related entries: SALINGGAWI NATION NCAA vs UAAP cheering squads Oh, boy... It's getting more tensed by the day. It's even worse than a sweaty palm during a dramatic final-two Miss Universe moment. For many different reasons, the week before the "judgement day" is the longest for the avid followers of the annual UAAP Cheerdance competition. It's the time of the year when online forums shoot up

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Watch the routine of SPC Makati cheering squad below from end to end.Fans and avid followers of Salinggawi can easily recognize UST in it: the costume, the routine, the balloons and the cheers. It's just one of many that you'll find in YouTube.And you realize how big an influence Salinggawi Dance Troupe is along with Yellow Jackets when it comes to cheerdance- a term which has almost become

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O night,what mystery you hidein dark corners you make,what beauty you keepin shadows you reveal.August 6, 2008/ 3:40amOld Al Ghanim, DohaCompelled in the small hours of the morning by the results of the photos I took last night in the corniche area, I wrote the above verse to complement my fascination for night photography.I'm very much drawn to night photography because things have a different

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I brought all the books I could carry in the plane- it meant even literally holding on to a large bookbound I wouldn't want to leave behind in the long nine-hour flight. Earlier, I had had my mom carry six kilos of books to go first. I keep them all now in my makeshift mini-library: a spacious four-wheel grey luggage, all intact and protected from the relentless Middle Eastern dust. It's

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My Statcounter account reports that strings of search engine users who use keywords such as “Marlon Adolfo photos” and “Marlon Adolfo FEU pictures” (probably ardent admirers of the Tamaraw Adolfo) are being directed to my blog and my Opera photo albums.I have so little photos of Adolfo and I feel obliged to produce more since many are being referred to my site. And I don't want to disappoint.

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Early morning, after breakfast and prayers, whilst the sun still gentle and reluctant, in the road island near Clock Roundabout in Old Al Ghanim, bearded men in overworn khameez trickle in like ants, one by one, by twos or by threes. They seize a loose brick from the pile and position themselves under the Sidra tree. They are called chopras, I was told, or labourers in english. They seat all day

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It could be that I was homesick. I was teary-eyed halfway through the YouTube video of Matt Harding with a title “Where The Hell Is Matt?”, a collation of video snippets of Matt's dancing in far corners of the world. Namibia, Jordan, Philippines, Rwanda, Italy, Palau, United States, Cayman Islands, Japan, Cambodia, Yemen, Antarctica and a lot others you wouldn't suspect. In the background you can

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A long-persisting idea insisted itself to me while I was stuck in a rain. As with “Childhood Memories”, “Photo Log” and “I Recommend”, I am starting a new blog section I call “Ambient Scenes”. Ambient scenes are basically video snippets of daily life taken from a certain perspective, one that is aloof and indirect, so as to make the observer remain a passive observer, detached as when one peers

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Click on the photos to enlarge. For more Sorsogon pictures, please visit the album at http://my.opera.com/gbrew/albums/show.dml?id=550590 It was night time when we reached the city of Sorsogon. The bus travelled empty except for the driver and a fellow, a lady, Tristan and me. Most of the the passengers alighted in Naga and Legazpi, leaving the back corners of the bus frighteningly dark and

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It's odd that just when I'm at the brink of falling into the realm of dreams, that's when I'm most alert to great inspiration and ideas fluttering inside my head, like millions of fireflies. It's when writing becomes as pleasurable as reading a voluptuous novel.At one instance, for example, a solid theme and ending to a prose I'm currently working on formed and locked all in an instant that, as

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It was a tough choice between Davao and Sorsogon, and lack of preparation to book plane tickets pratically made Sorsogon a clear winner. I have a feeling that we're going to enjoy the province more than expectations. It's got everything that thrills me- a legendary volcano, mountains, serene lagoons, green springs, mystical lakes, mangrove forests, claustrophobic caves, delicate whale sharks,

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Just a day to go and still undecided where to go for our fifth anniversary of togetherness (Tristan and I). I am considering Batanes and ARMM, and just maybe there's a way to slip down to Sabah from Tawi-Tawi. I find sweet frustration in standing from the edge of an island, aching to swim across to a foreign territory so close you can almost smell it. A picnic overlooking the lime-colored

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For the love of Ubuntu as well as for sending mails, I am giving away free cd installers of Hardy Heron and other Linux distros. This is open to anyone who'd like to try Linux out but don't have fast Internet access to download the ISOs. Just leave a request in the comment section of this post and e-mail me your snail-mail address.Choose your loot. All are Live CDs.Ubuntu Hardy Heron (personal

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Click on the image to view my Hardy Heron desktopBuoyed by so much excitement and expectations, I downloaded the ISO as soon as it was released. It did not disappoint me.Hardy Heron is by far the best and most-cooperative Ubuntu release I've dealt with. I actually had conditioned myself for some major headaches that could typically crop up, and tucked with could-be useful tips and tricks I had

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With the approaching release of the new Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Fedora 9, and while I just know that my current Windows system is slowly crashing on the background by the minute, I have decided to switch to Linux once and for all. I was thwarted by Linux before but it’s nothing compared with the paranoia that comes with my, shameful to say, pirated Windows copy. I’d always worry about the security

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I learned from a local morning news show today that “When In Rome”- yes, the 1980s new wave band- is in the country right now for a promotional tour. They’re going to have a mini-gig at Hard Rock Café (3rd Level of Glorietta 3, Makati City) this Monday, April 21 at 7pm.An 80s act performing at a distinctly mid-90s joint. That just gave me a whirl of nostalgic excitement and anticipation! Swaying

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NOTE: If you're looking for more images of Marlon Adolfo, please click on the following link-Photo log no. 3: Marlon Adolfo of FEU Tamaraws/ Nike Summer League 2008I can’t believe the number of hits my UAAP photo albums have been receiving since I put up my account on MyOpera. I am featuring here some of the most searched and viewed ones. For more UAAP pictures, please visit my albums at http://

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I have begun working on my very first novel, a venture I never had tried or even dared imagine until recently. I had heard people say before that I would do, or ought to do such thing one day. In all honesty, no one is more surprised than myself that I am actually writing one right now.I don’t know where this will lead me but I surely feel very positive. It may take me a year or two or even half

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At last, I found a way to capture and keep license-protected videos such as those from http://now.abs-cbn.com. Please take note that copyrighted videos reproduced through this procedure should not be commercially distributed, and should be used for personal archive purposes only.I had spent so much time looking for ways to convert videos protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) when it’s

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As customary every time we visit the Summer Capital of the Philippines, I made time for some real tedious book hunting in Booksale, SM City Baguio branch. I have developed this absurd idea that the best book selections are found- and are most rewarding- in far and unassuming places.    This time I can't believe the bulk of my purchase at a combined cost of even less than the discounted price of a

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I had my medical exam last week as a requirement completion for the Qatar Embassy. To get over with it fast, I walked in early, about 8 am, in S.M. Lazo Medical Clinic along Taft Avenue, just in front of Philippine Women’s University. It took me great courage to undergo the process as I always dread anything clinical. Needles frighten me to death. They make me panicky. I could faint by the

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Watching BBC’s Space, a series of outer space documentaries, made me realize that end of the world is not so remote a possibility. That after all, it’s not just a resolving idea conjured by poets or religion to frighten people as some might think. It will happen. If from nothingness life on earth came to exist, then it can cease just as completely. The earth shall die and melt away in hell. Yes,

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I met 2008 halfway across the dawning skies of Middle East and South Asia, fast forwarding over time zones while the world made its final turn towards the first sunrise of the new year. I flew back home in the Philippines and landed just in time when the noise had died down. I arrived about two in the afternoon and the remains of firecrackers in the streets made me feel I missed something. It’s

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As a fresh expat in Doha, one of my very first concerns was Internet connection, and to be exact, where I could link up with a free Wi-Fi signal. I noticed that nothing much on the matter can be found on the web. Most of the posts in QatarLiving.com (an online forum similar to PinoyExchange.com) were quite unclear and indirect, leaving me unsure and confused. Now that I have personally searched

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Our bus ride from Vigan to Laoag where we’d have our plane back to Manila was one of the most delightful moments in my life. And for the sake of clarity, when I say “our” or “we” or “us” in my blog, it should be understood to mean Tristan and me, and our kids, unless indicated otherwise. Going back to our trip, it marked the end of my days-long 23rd birthday indulgence in Vigan on which I set

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I wonder how other people can read so fast. There are those who finish a lengthy novel in one sleeping night, and those who can squeeze three to four books in a week. Some even dare to read two or three books at the same time. It's astonishing, yet I also find it greatly irreverent. Whether it’s a good one or a bad one, books possess a life deserving of sincere regard and cautious appreciation.

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There's really nothing particularly special to say about my 24th birthday except that I rediscovered my fondness for books, a compulsion lately eclipsed by my addiction of live UAAP games, and aimless Internet surfing if not digging for pornographic video downloads. I think the smell of books pulled me inside the National Bookstore, Shangri-La. On average, I'd spend good 20 minutes of browsing on

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I hope I won't get jailed for this. I am just as guilty as anyone. Yeah, yeah… Same lame excuse from a Pinoy. Anyway, I got tired of my old Windows XP, so I replaced it with a modified one called "Windows XP Black", illegally produced, of course. I installed it into my laptop as soon as I got back from Quiapo where I bought the copy- where else? Everything is out-of-the-box including drivers,

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Here’s something I originally posted on an online forum- with some modifications.UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe during a halftime performanceSome NCAA squads are actually very good when it comes to stunts and transitions. In my opinion, what they lack really is creativity- putting different elements together, taste, etc. Perfect example is Altas Perp Squad. Their stunts were nice and clean, but the

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UST Tigers etch first winBy Joseph BautistaAlso posted at http://www.gouste.comThe University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers finally posted their first win in the 70th season of UAAP at the expense of the still winless Adamson Falcons yesterday, 96-84, at Ninoy Aquino Stadium.More than Jervy Cruz’s usual monster game, 24 points and 23 rebounds, it was the team’s collective effort and successful

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Santo Tomas ousts Ateneo By Joseph BautistaAlso posted at http://gouste.comThe University of Santo Tomas Lady Tigresses sent Ateneo Lady Eagles out of contention for a finals berth yesterday in four sets, 20-25, 25-10, 25-23, 25-20, in the semifinal round of the Shakeys V-League womens volleyball tournament at The Arena in San Juan.After dropping a sluggish first set and with a new guest player

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For two weeks I almost did not see the light of the day, I skipped meals and didn't join my lover on bed. "You love your laptop more than me," he'd complain. I was forever glued to my computer screens, painstakingly conducting a never-ending cycle of installation, uninstallation and reinstallation of Linux distros; collecting, filtering and reading online manuals; tweaking and experimenting to

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UST Tigresses ripped by Lady StagsBy Joseph BautistaAlso posted at http://gouste.comUniversity of Santo Tomas fell to 2-3 in standings as San Sebastian College gave the Tigresses their second straight loss in the Shakey's V-League womens volleyball tournament at The Arena in San Juan.After a tight first set, the Tigresses failed to put up their claws against the attacks and quick plays of the SSC

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Save its old-fashioned layout and graphics; and the days when it seems you're holding a souvenir program or a yearbook, "Philippine Panorama" remains my Sunday magazine of choice. It comes free with Manila Bulletin whose Sunday edition costs 20 Php as of present time. I am writing this recommendation in defense of the magazine for the unfair criticisms it's been receiving I see mostly on online

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Was on my way to catch a live game in San Juan. While busy responding to people waiting for me at the venue, I took notice of the handsome guy across me. Excited by the sight, I quickly drafted a text message:'Tang ina! Ang cute ng kasabay ko ngayon sajeep. Kamukha ni Dennis Trillo. Shit!Pressing the button too fastOPTIONS > SEND > OKOoops... wrong person! Holy shit!Follow-up message:Fuck man! Sa

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The kitchen looks a lot cleaner now as I put down the rag. It's quarter before eleven, almost three hours had passed already. The plane must have long landed. My Tristan's safe. I'm glad that I didn't feel much of the time he was crossing South China Sea. I was busy scrubbing pans, tiles and other surfaces.He's enjoying Hong Kong with the company of other people this time, not mine. Cheerful am I

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I regret writing this pre-departure entry in quite a rush. I don't have much time, it's already 2:05 in the morning and I haven't slept yet. By 6:30 I should be leaving to catch the 7-am bus to Clark Pampanga Airport where Tristan and I will take the plane (Tiger Airways) to Macau. We're going out of the country with the kids (now ten) to spend our fourth year anniversary. We'll spend three days

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Prologue"All I have now are tidbits of memories- short, scattered, distant..."I am pursuing this path back to my childhood because I want to rediscover myself as a kid. Childhood, though can be frustrating, dragging and even painful, is such a fascinating experience which I'd want to relive. It's sad that most people tend to forget theirs easily. They neglect it as if it wasn't anything

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I reviewed my copy of Miss Universe 1993 to refresh myself on the pageant's production quality when it was last held in Mexico. This is, of course, in line with the upcoming Miss Universe edition (May 28) which will again take place in Mexico after fourteen years. It's a pity that I missed the telecast back in 1993. That could have been my very first Miss Universe experience, I think. I'm not

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I'm sharing a correspondence between me and my mom regarding the best job for me. I edited out some parts of the e-mails not related to the subject.Gloria Bautista (_____@yahoo.com)To: Joseph Bautista (_____@msn.com)Subject: March 27Dear anak,Any news on your job-hunting? Pls go for it. Take action and make it happen. Don't allow yourself to slack around. You're very young to have these gaps in

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2:00 PM 11.05.06Plaza Maestro, ViganYesterday I've just had another dose of intoxicating conversation with my friends over coffee and cigarettes. It's been a while since the last time the four of us (Buds, Lucille, Rose and me) had convened. And everytime we meet, I am filled with so much joy, and passion for what we talk about. I pushed for yesterday's occasion for my birthday on the 6th and I

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12:53 PM 09/07/2006OfficeI am in my mopey-goth mood again. I feel like crying without reason. My feet walk slow, my reflexes are delayed. It’s been a while since the last time I felt this way. Tristan hates this mode of mine, especially when I think of death, loneliness and despair. But this time I am not thinking of anything. I just feel sad and lonely, even in this warm and sunny afternoon. I

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12:31 AM 08/02/2006 (Retro)McDonald’s, Paseo de RoxasEven in this sleepless intoxicationThe shiny metals of your tongue and left earManage to spark a soberElectrocution.

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06:49 AM 07/31/2006I feel inspired. It must be the rainy weather- or that deliciously dark blog entry of Karl Kaufman about the dark sky. I hope to come up with something today. It struck me that my reservoirs of exultation and misery is overflowing and it's a shame that I've come to ignore the beauty it offers. I've just hadn't enough urge lately to sit and drown my fingers into the keyboard.

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5/11/2006Tanauan, BatangasAs I write this, I am inside a cottage in Darasa Fiesta Resort here in Tanauan, Batangas. When I learned that Tristan has FGD’s to moderate here, I dragged myself over- much to his disapproval- to take advantage of the air-conditioned room and of the quiet environment just so I can read and write. It is too uncomfortably humid in Manila right now for me to lift a book,

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5/11/2006Friday, 1:50 pmFinding good VHS titles is a treat for someone like me who finds joy in watching old films in analog technology. I got mine for only 25 pesos each from this old video shop (Movie King) near Pasig Musem that’s been long standing since my high school days. I knew it had an on-going sale of its old VHS collection but I had never really had the chance to drop by until lately

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10:43 PM 11/23/2005This morning after I had my usual pancake with sausage breakfast at McDonald's, I did a rare act of smoking inside a public vehicle. The sun was unforgiving with its stinging heat and out of my courtesy to other passengers, I took it as a challenge to stay at the rear end of the shuttle jeep just so I could ruffle out the smoke directly into the air outside. I admit it wasn't

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11:49 AM 11/6/2005I spent the night with my lover and my little elephant kid Tan-Tan who celebrates same birthday as mine. He is proud to be now two years older like his other siblings while I turned 22. Tan-Tan came to life on my 20th birthday and his introduction was a bittersweet quarrelsome evening of jealousy in the intersection of Julia Vargas and St. Francis avenues. Tristan and I fought

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7:24 PM 11/5/2005On the eve of my birthday I am wearing my favorite Lycra briefs. I love its softness and comfortable grip- not too tight and not too loose. It fits me very well. Other than a certain degree of sexiness and playfullness, somehow it lends me some sense of ease and assurance. Maybe that's the kind of security I want to feel on my special day. That for once I am totally in control of

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9:48 PM 10/30/2005One of the privileges of being free from the slavery of the corporate world I think is being able to walk around your street without minding anything even time. Yesterday, which is a saturday, in late afternoon I found myself lost in my marvel as I stood gazing at the adroitness of a man to skin pineapples. I would like to inquire about several things like how much he earns for

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3:49 PM 10/25/2005I've just eaten a bunch of streetfood as I write. Squidball, chickenball, fishball, banana-q, prinitong lumpia and palamig. My lover will surely reprimand me for this but the experience of devouring such bacteria-prone food along busy streets is something I cannot resist. I confess that for a long time I kept away from eating this kind of food for sanitary and health-related

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6:57 PM 10/22/2005It was a sunny-sunny day today when I did the press rounds. I love the weather's tolerable humidity. This day is pretty different, too, because I was generous enough to spare 40 pesos for a pedicab ride from Recoletos Street to the Port Area. I am used to walking my way out of Intramuros. Perhaps there was a reason for this unusual rush. And I'd like to think it was the incident

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1:02 PM 10/19/2005"Mabilis ka sigurong ma-in love kaya ka ganyan..." a lover once told me.In my mind I wanted to say "may hinahanap lang kasi ako."

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7:51 AM 10/12/2005If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van GoghNever did it cross my mind that a single forwarded text message could mark probably the turning point of my life as a writer- or my existence in general. Finally, I have been awaken from a deep state of hypnosis (as how Jaime Licauco put it when he

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8:25 PM 10/9/2005I am to tell a dream I had few days ago. I was supposed to have it written upon waking but my conscious mind has been all too jammed up.I had it the night when Alvin passed by at around one a.m. to drop last week's press round materials.o0oMy cellphone rang. I picked it up from my desk where I usually charge it. Alvin's voice was rather loud on the earpiece. "Ano? Kumusta!?!,"

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4:42 AM 9/16/2005Quoting an entry entitled "Walking Lecture 2005" found in http://www.livejournal.com/users/psychicpants/o0o...But then it drizzled and so we stayed in that waiting shed longer than I had planned to. I handed out the Neruda poem they would talk to, that they would walk through, and discussed parallel strategies of Neruda's Duende* with that of the haiku moment...*Duende is taken

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9:22 AM 7/6/2005How deliciously I finished reading Anne Rice's "Blackwood Farm" with my lover beside me sleeping, and with my little fury kids complete in number flipping endlessly- especially the ever talkative Cookie- begging me to join them in their communal slumber as if to share one another's dream. The lone yellow bulb from the kitchen was the only light available and classical music was on

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9:32 PM 6/27/2005It was about 2 in the morning when I was awaken to a text message by Vince, a new friend. He offered a one-time writing job. I am to interview three high-profile moms which he confirmed today. It is for Potencee's (a vitamins brand, I think) publicity for its mother-oriented organization. The interview with these moms- which include Dr. Calayan- is set on July 3 and the place is

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9:34 AM 6/18/2005During my yosi breaks in my AIG life, my officemates usually comment on my cigarette, Philip Morris, that it is too long. "Sobrang haba, nakakainip," they complain. But for me whose thinking, rather motivation to think, can be relative to the length of a cigarette, I find luxury of time in it. It seems to me that I reach the peak of my imagination and passion with each stick of

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