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Just when you think we have the franchise on downturned smiles we give you a snap like this
This is Kuya Maui and me at our joint birthday lunch. Kuya’s birthday was on the 12th of July, mine will be on the 23rd. Maui had just turned 16, and I’m hitting the big 45. [...]

16 years ago today he was the one in the bassinet. I was separated from him for two years, and then he became my baby again when he was eight years old. It’s been eight years since he joined me here in Manila, and he was twelve when he became Kuya Maui. He dotes on [...]

Having two grown sons (well one is almost but not quite grown) who grew up on computers and computer games, Halo 3 is not strange to me, clueless to computer games higher than the Battle Realms genre as I may be. I can recognize the theme when I hear it, my younger son used to [...]

This is probably the most interesting rendition of the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Although the poem, in the words of the author himself, “had been printed as cards to hang up in offices and bedrooms; illuminated text-wise and anthologised to weariness,” I think it’s the best advice that can be given in these violent [...]

Quite a few things to be happy about today. I managed to go on a quick shopping trip with my both my babies, something that happens very rarely these days. It was a short uneventful trip to SM Sucat to pick up Kuya Maui’s school supplies, a few groceries, and take-away lunch for the father [...]