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I saw a friend from way back earlier tonight. One of the first things she asked me was why I never emailed her. In fact, I had emailed her a few days ago, using a new email address, and I had already hit send before I realized that she may not recognize the new name. [...]

To all my family and friends in North America celebrating this occasion, Happy Thanksgiving!
And to all of us here who in one way or another still suffer under our absurd political system and endure the embarrassment of incompetent services (Arroyo = Arrovo) we still have a lot to be thankful for, we who have internet [...]

Tagged by my niece-in-law Teacher Sol
If I could be in one place right now… I would be up in the mountains of Tuburan, the first place in the world where I discovered peace.
If I could give something of myself to my friends… it would be desire to live for the moment, and to never let [...]

I have always pessimistically thought that putting up a blog was an invitation for people to throw rocks at you. I was thinking exactly that when I first put up my blog at blogspot. That’s why it is always refreshing to get kind comments from readers who happened to drop by, and even those who [...]

Sam and I went out alone together for the first time tonight, to watch my friend Ralph’s recital at the Summer Workshop of Repertory Philippines. They put on the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, and Ralph played Brother Arvide Abernathy, a missionary from the Save-A-Soul Mission and grandfather to Sarah Brown. And he sang this [...]