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Loving Cory
Cory the builder fishCory, a yellow cichlid who joined our family six years ago, passed away last December 5, maybe of old age, or of having stones in her belly, or probably a combination of both. In...
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Christmas stamps of the Philippines
Philippines' first Christmas postage stampsAbove is the first set of Christmas stamps printed in 1967 to be used as legitimate postage, unlike the TB seals, which were first printed in 1946 and...
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LAUDATO SI'
Some days are more stressful than others, and I look back to the days of happiness unadulterated with troubles, and I realize that those blissful days are the privilege of youth and its concomitant...
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HAPPY RAGDOLL
This cyberphoto is one in a series taken a few years ago. When we were looking at the results we had to smile along when we came upon this unexpected gem -- pure delight, unfeigned happiness, a smile...
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Silver: Loveable Sleepyhead
Sometimes I do not plan to write anything at all, or I want to write but I don't have anything interesting at hand, so I read instead. Then I have to answer a phone call and I put the book face down so...
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Marcus!
2017 bewilders me. After searching YouTube in vain last month to watch About a Boy, here it is now in HBO, undistorted and unsegmented, the story of the boy after whom this photogenic tyke, my...
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Jojo
Jojo, September 2016Saan ka man ngayon, harinawa'y naghahabi ka pa rin ng mga nakakaaliw na mga kuwento tungkol sa iyong girlfriend forever, tungkol sa kagitingan mo bilang hari ng tahanan (Alas...
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Remembering father
Bought this at a Book Sale branch for the stupefying price of P35, cheaper than a pack of Poland hopia. Here I learned that the Japanese invasion of China was much earlier than I thought, which...
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Small things
It's an x-shaped kibble, one of hundreds in a small bag of cat food, except that this particular one was seen being carried away by a cockroach from the food bowl. Hefting the comparatively heavy loot,...
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Ding 2012-2017
Ding (August 2012-22 February 2017)In 2012 there still stood across the end of our short street a jackfruit tree, under which garbage were heaped for collectors to pick up. That's also where newborn...
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Noli 2017
Found this book while searching for another; dropped the search and started to read this Filipino version by Virgilio Almario. Now I know why I found it so easy in high school: we had skipped many...
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Our kite
Photo credit to online ownerThe Philippines is like a kite snagged on a tree, unable to soar beyond its third-world sky, because of a few ambitious and virulent politicians. The anti Leni fake news on...
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Like kita c",)
Na-unfriend ka dahil di mo gusto si DU30? DE5? Leni? Nakikita ba nila yung mga "Likes" mo para sa kanila? May bigat ba yung pagsang-ayon mo o hindi sa ejk, death penalty, sovereignty? FYI: Hindi sila...
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Earthly denial
I used to grouse about how messy human affairs are in this planet, and Leena would tell me to go to another, and I'd say, "If there's really that alternative." When I reached junior age -- you know,...
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Kikay
Kikay (March 25, 2017)Paalam, KikayBy Leena CalsoAng bilis ng iyong pagpanaw. Akala ko magsasama pa tayo ng ilang linggo, ilan pang araw. Handa naman akong pakainin ka, painumin ng gamot, linisan,...
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Fleshwork
“That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm food. At night, you’re rubbing yourself against worm...
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P20k per Filipino soul
The Senate has approved a big increase in the President's discretionary fund, money meant for national contingencies like earthquakes and typhoons, outbreak of diseases hitting fowls, livestock and...
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Without me
What you see is a comic book published and sold in 1950, and this surprises me and a lot of baby boomers that are still functional this side of the grass. This issue qualifies as part of the Golden Age...
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Mga salot ng bayan
Bagong uring nilalang itong si Duterte: Sariling utang na loob sa mga Marcos, bayan ang pinagbabayad. Eto, lumabas na ang selyo para sa ika-100 birthday ng diktador at world-class kurakot. Request ni...
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Those Mama Sita stamps
In 2013 the Mama Sita food company signed a contract ending 2017 with Philpost for the issuance of stamps bearing the image of founder Teresita Reyes. Many collectors howled and asked why did the post...
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Ode to the Uod
Ang Paraan sa Paglilibing sa Isang Magnanakaw by ISAGANI FUENTESIsang Peklat na PahimakasAba, ginoong Marcos, ginulat mo kami! Para kang magnanakaw sa dilim nang gabi -- Diretso sa hukay, kulang sa...
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Easy
This is an old photo taken five or six years ago, when I would have used the staid and formal word, photograph, instead. But that’s here and there in this more stressful existence now.By this time that...
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Simulan na ang piging ng mga uod
Putsa! Nagsisimula pa lang sa DZMM ang MMK kaninang ala-una at inilalatag pa lang ang love story ni Rica Peralejo nang ibinulabog ng newsbreak ang napakawalang-kwentang anunsiyo na nagdesisyon na ang...
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Harinawa, Pareng Jojo Mejia...
ANG usapan nilang mag-asawa, kapag may isang nagkasakit nang malubha, hindi na pahahabain pa ang paghihirap niya. May tawag kami diyan dito: “DNR” o “do not rescuscitate” o “allow for natural death.”...
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Cohen's Dark Hallelujah
Cohen's book of poetry"Kilala mo si Leonard Cohen?" Ako, nagtatanong."Hinde. Evicted sa PBB?" Si Jojo, kaibigan, reality show aficionado."Aguy! Sikat siya sa US, at hindi tulad mong bopol!""The Biggest...
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