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Angeles HD
Angeles City, October 1964The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.-- The...
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Miriam
Galit sa mundo?In the late 1980s up to June 15, 1991, there were about five bookstalls at the Dau Supermart, which was known among shoppers from Manila for its PX goods. The supermart still stands; it...
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Cats & Books
Cats & BooksBy Leena Calso ChuaThe picture shows cats playing atop some books -- cats on books, literally speaking.But that's not what I mean. This is about cats and the books they like. It's...
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Bulabog
The moon is lunatic,Sending beams to break my sleep.Ay, buwan, tinimbang ka ngunit kulang,Di mo ba alam, insomniac ako, hunghang!-- William the HenryZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...3:04 a.m....
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Project Insomnia
3:46 a.m.Mainit, pero hindi ako pinagpapawisan dahil nasasapinan ng konting lamig ang dilim. Sabi ni Leena maginaw sa labas, ang sarap nga at nararamdaman niya mula sa bintana. Nagkumot pa. Ako naman...
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Mr. Moonlight, Spock, Beatles atbp
3:00 a.m.Spock: Sleep long and properAng galing. Saktong alas tres ka ngayon, Mr. Moonlight. Biblical ito. (Namputsang ba't di nung Holy Week ako ginising sa ganitong topak, este, topic? Anyway,...
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Rex: 2001-2012
Rex when we were both healthy. He always had more hair.Rex, belonging to that big and gentle Chow Chow breed, was capable of harming a fly, though not intentionally, and he was probably not aware of...
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Hilaw
2:33 a.m.Ano ito, bubot na insomnia? Sobrang aga naman, pati mga kuliglig eh inaantok pa. Binuksan ko kung sa'n ko huling naiwan ang You Can't Go Home Again, ang nobela ni Thomas Wolfe na di ko...
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Cordell's music
First editions lahat: Books, Cordell, ako. Yung mga Lyrica, hindi pala: revised nightly siya.3:33 a.m.Ano ito, half Omen? And the name of the baby beastie boy is 333, yea! Naalala ko yung full Omen:...
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Diskurso
3:21 a.m.Actually ilang minuto na akong gising: di ko lang maimulat itong may muta ko pang mga mata kahit matagal nang nagdidiskurso itong kapitbahay naming matandang lalaki at mga bingi niyang mga...
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Father's day
Father with one of our dogs, from way back when...3:19 a.m."Song is the ultimate structuring device for language." This quote is lifted from Moonwalking with Einstein: the Art and Science of...
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Lyrically yours
3:04 a.m.In one or two biographies of the Beatles, John Lennon was quoted as saying that he wanted to be a millionaire by the time he became twenty-one. When I first read about that in Hunter Davies'...
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Shalala in the Morning
3:48 a.m.My insomnia seems to be a bit off this morning, but then again I remember Leena remarking as she turned off the nightlight: "Wow! It's already 12:12." She watched to the end Mr. Popper's...
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Silver, Big Boy, and Ding -- survivors
Silver, British Shorthair, and Pogi with no hairIf you enter our bedroom, tiny Silver with her thin legs will stand up and emerge from her niche, then walk, lurch, stumble, stagger, fall on her belly...
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Tintin
Young Tintin3:46 a.m.What do kittens, alone in the dark, think about? A few minutes ago, Tintin climbed on the bed, then walked over my tummy. I gave her a few sleepy strokes on the chin, she gave me...
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One perfect day
It seems that when we come of age and shed the naïveté of youth, we lose the ability to go through a single day without encountering a minor hitch or Stresstab-reaching crisis.For example, you are with...
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Lover's Concerto Kelly Chen version on YouTube3:33 a.m.Vaguely I remember having heard Lover's Concerto for the first time way back in third grade. It was 1965 and a classmate seemed to know the lyrics...
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Notes to myself
I am following what may be an obscure but a certainly effective procedure of learning: accidental education. I stumbled upon the term while frip-fripping the pages of The Education of Henry Adams, the...
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A Sublife: Birthday notes
When you are old and full of sleep...Go back to bed, go to sleep.-- William the HenryFor more than eight years I have been coping with the disabilities caused by a burst blood vessel in the left side...
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Tintin & Schopenhauer
What does Tintin think about when sitting alone above my pillow in the dark? I found out that life can be easier if you find the right philosopher to answer such questions for you. Schopenhauer...
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