Facebook pics
No Facebook status is as good as it appears, although sometimes, not often, it is better, but that will not last. Not one is as bad as it seems: all is worse. In a way, that's a nutshell way of...
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons...-- T.S. EliotRizal's calling card in HongkongA colleague at People's Tonight once showed me a copy she had prepared for the backpage of the morning...
View ArticleHunter's New Year message
I woke up late to join the photo session earlier, this last day of 2013, so I have been chosen to represent the human family here, the dogs and several families of cats, including the foundlings, the...
View ArticleAddiction
Starbucks carved signage, happy Jollibee, and Coke alarm clock:Such stuff dreams and addiction are made of. I'm free of the evil root of loving money. But not of the sin of loving the beautiful things...
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Silver Sabihin mo, "Rich, Rich, RICH."Dinadagdagan ko ang vocabulary nitong si Silver. Tuwing papasok na ako sa kuwarto, lulundag na sa kama iyan at pag-upo ko ay hihiga na sa kandungan ko. Paghimas...
View ArticleCosmic 60
The lack of light, in the darkness of false dawn, sometimes brings stressful thoughts. Once, maybe in the break of a dream, I lay still in bed, while my mind prodded at the fact that I had occupied...
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Nagpasyal si Michelle Buldit sa pinagtatrabuhuan ng kanyang pinsan na si Sogo. Hinagisan siya ng kaway-pagbati ng among si Pogi, na halatang malalim ang concentration."Aba at bakit nakadikit na naman...
View ArticleA Pictorial History of National Stamp Collecting Month
1995 mini sheet introducing NSCM monthIn 1995, President Ramos, also a well-known philatelist, signed Proclamation 494, declaring November every year hence as National Stamp Collecting Month. This mini...
View ArticlePanggulong Dodirty
Painting by Fernando AmorsoloAng ganda ko, ano? Kinuha akong modelo ng pintor na si Fernando Amorsolo. Una mong mapapansin ay yung dala kong mga manggang hilaw; susunod ay mapansin mo yung dimples sa...
View ArticleBoss Joe
Joe Burgos, mas mainam pa sa mga panggulo ng PilipinasBoss, pinili namin ang putanginang Duterte dahil di ko alam na mas mahal niya ang mga Marcos kaysa sa mga tapat na mamamahayag na tulad mo, na sa...
View ArticleDuterte's blind side
This must be taught in schoolsVery very few people know that my birthday is celebrated every week, and that I believe heavily on gift receiving, even without twisting of arms or shameless reminding....
View ArticleAlbus
This is Albus, a very loving Ragdoll who, like any kitten, loves companionship and play. He is born on Jan. 7 with two siblings. When people took his siblings to their homes to lead better lives, he...
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Today, 2016 August 18, President Duterte's 50th day in power, a documentary of his "achievements" airs beyond PTV4. The document starts with his inauguration speech, in which he said, "we have become...
View ArticleLooking back
When President Duterte was just starting, he declared that he would not look back and point fingers at what the previous administration had done wrong, had not done right, and should have done. "Move...
View ArticleSophistries and epithets
The president seems to be misleading the public about the killing of innocent victims, including children, in his bloody war against drug lords and pushers. Is it because his messiahiad turn of mind...
View ArticleEvil time, evil men
Cayetano said tourism is down because media is always reporting the killings triggered by the De Lima Senate inquiry on extrajudicial killings. Now she is demoted, but I think media will still report...
View ArticleHarinawa, 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.”...
View ArticleCohen's Dark Hallelujah
Cohen's book of poetry"Kilala mo si Leonard Cohen?" Ako, nagtatanong."Hinde. Evicted sa PBB?" Si Aijem, kaibigan, reality show aficionado."Aguy! Sikat siya sa US, at hindi tulad mong bopol!""The...
View ArticlePsycho Presidents
I hate Donald Trump, but some of my friends like him, to the extent that they are restricting me in their FB settings, blocking my anti-Trump quips, and I think I have been unfriended by some. But not...
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