tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-244105022012-02-16T16:26:45.090+08:00A demitasse is a small cup of black coffee. I only need one to fuel my thoughts, two to make me babble until the wee hours, three to make my left eye twitch and four... (You wouldn't want to know...)Athenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718542689929677904noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24410502.post-67972808990342465182007-11-02T00:29:00.000+08:002007-11-02T01:03:54.788+08:00

Luis, the youngest at home who I am so fund of calling Lil' Patutuy, came to me this morning while I was checking my mails. I thought at first that it was something that he wanted from the magazine that he's been obsessing about since we started subscribing."Maggie?""Yeah?""I need to talk to you one day." (My kids always refer to time as "one day". At this context, "one day" was used as "now".""

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RoXXXanne, starring Jay Aquitania, Janvier Daily and Sheree premiers at 7:00PM on October 10 (Wednesday) at the UP Film Center, Diliman, Quezon City. Omar Sortijas, CMLI JCNEB Batch '96, was assistant director to Jun Lana for this independent film.Tickets are sold at PhP 100. (If you want to reserve, you can text this number 09184076342.)If you want to take a peek at the film, you can view the

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Ang Photoethnographic Exhibit ni Kiko ay July 10, 5PM ang opening.(Ay! Leche. May exhibit din pala si Eng Chan - ORDINARY THINGS - crayon on paper ang churva. Maganda din.)See? Dami mo na makikita for 30PhP? Hehe...

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Ang El Poeta del Color: Amorsolo in the Vargas Collection ay on-going pa rin - until October 7. -- Ganda, promise - all 57 Amorsolo original - landscape, genre, war paintings, nudes, portraits na hindi pa nakikita sa labas.----Ang korni ng buhay ko, hindi ako makablog.www.vargasmuseum.org - may instruction doon kung paano pumunta, kung hindi kayo familiar sa UP Diliman.

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"I am not here to convince, I am here to tell a story."I will not talk about this beyond this entry. I actually planned not to 'publicize' this at all, but it seems that a lot of people mistake what happened for something else. Something that's really - ahm - unfair and hurtful. At least, that's how I see it.Over the Holy Week, I lost my cellphone, not to mention a large part of my pride and has

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Finally, things are turning up pretty well amidst the circus brought by Election 2007. The Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) based in The Netherlands handed a guilty verdict for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her Administration for 'crimes against humanity'. PCIJ story (filed by former journalist Rommel Regalado Bagares, who is now working as a lawyer and pursuing masteral studies in The

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A NOTE OF WARNING Before reading through and blaming me at the end that you wasted your time reading an entry as rubbish as this one, just let me say that I DID WARN YOU. This entry contains ADULT materials – adult as a psychological reference and not your biological age in years. It has no reference at all to my personal life or to anyone I know, so anyone who can relate or who thinks he

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I was checking out details about the controversial Ang Ladlad - this party list for Bisexual, Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders (BGLT) has been on the news several weeks ago for their disqualification as a party list (due to their failure to define their presence on a national level) and then later, their Chairman was classified by the COMELEC as a nuisance Senatorial bet in the upcoming national

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Yesterday we learned that a friend's dad who was reported missing since March 2 was finally found. As expected he was already dead. *** During the past couple of weeks, we have been occupied with formulating the possible reasons of his 'disappearance'. At the current political state, it isn't an impossibility that people - regardless of their political leanings, if they even have one, disappear

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It has never bothered me that at times, I go out and drink alone. After all, men are not the only ones who should get an alcohol-induced stress debriefing from work. But this was easier to pull off in Manila, I tried doing that in several cities in the provinces but I got snares and smirks from almost anyone - males and females, of all ages.Aside from celebrations, drinking has been associated

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Last night Sofia lost her first ever milk tooth (a bit too early than usual), it was such a brave act for her to do the pulling. Dad did most of the pep, while I tried to distract myself from it all. I have low resistance to the sight of blood, so there - a major contradiction with my high tolerance with pain.They both rushed to me, as soon as the tooth was taken off. And I hinted Dad on “how

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Over the weekend, the Carpenter's song, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, has been stuck in my mind. Parang sirang plaka na paulit-ulit ang tugtog. And whatever I do, I can't get it off my head. The last time I heard it play was in June, when I went to Bikol for two weeks. The only radio station in our town plays most songs of the oldies which will bring you way back to the days when your mother

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With weeping eyesThe woman satBeside the oldTree where midnightCrosses in aFleeting second ofAn enchanting dance.Caught in aRhythm of theRustling leaves andThe gush ofFog, blown byThe wind; theWoman remained motionless,Her white faceStripped of emotions.Just as theHeart ceased toBe part ofThe system thatMakes her feel –Her round eyesFlooded – poured likeRain that sheNever knew wasWithin her -

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An Untold StoryFirst of Several PartsDraft"And so the journey begins of one's coming back to a place where a stone thrown creates a ripple so slow..." The pain in my toe has never ceased, it seems that whatever I took last night didn't work the way it should. I can barely walk, not even close to creating movements on my left toe. Yet tonight, I have embarked on a passage that I so

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Everything doesn't makes sense.The train arrives tonight.I can't make out your tattoo.Something definitely has to stop.I'll ask myself later.The place on the table where the cup used to be still burns.Where's the morning paper?Settle the bills.Buy that book.Trash him.Easy, huh?Listen.Or just pretend to.The bags.Birds standing still in the plain.Where?Make some tea.Do you still believe in that?I

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By the beach, the sultry air makes everything so real - yet passing. (I miss El Canonero...)

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AN EXCERPT FROM: Unlearning 101 by Bernard UmaliCheck full text, available at: http://bernardumali.blogs.friendster.com/blues_blog/2006/03/unlearning_101.htmlBad trip sa tsismis, sa walang ginawa kundi magkalat ng kung anu-anong tsismis. Sa mga may prejudice, sa mga taong kundi arok ang tinatakbo ng isip mo ay huhusgahan ka at sasabihang baliw; pero ok lang, nasa good company ako. ‘Ika nga ni

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020806Ewan.Just before going to bed this morning, I had an unfortunate chance to view the nastiest blog entry ever written. Upon waking after 5 hours, I got another request to alter my Friendster account (so as not to offend immediate family relations).The number of friends I have accumulated in years with that site didn't matter at all. But the writing I voluntarily and unconditionally invested

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Nanaginip ako.Sa malawak na parang,Gumagalaw ang lupa,Tumutubo ang damongLuntian ng walang tigil -Mula sa haba nitongHanggang sakong saIsang pikit-mata nagingKarera ang pagtubo nila.Unahan ang mga dahon.Pabilis ng pabilis.Isang hinga, isang pikit-mata,Isang pulgada ng pag-usbong.Pero hindi nagbago ang amoy nila.Amoy ng luntiang damong sinabuyanSinasabayan ng sinag ng araw.Isang halik na kayang

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020506On the way to watch a play, Gabriela, I met Kiko in Vargas Museum in UP Diliman for KUHANG MARINO.I had a bizarre opportunity to get my arms twisted to attend this two-part exhibition, but hell, it was well worth it. (I'd say, here's the other arm, twist it again.)It was really a big F for Effort to go to Vargas Museum - which, by the way, you have to walk to for a few minutes from the

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by the beach 

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RRSFM* Scary Story(October 10, 2005)After two weeks of social inactivity, not including those confined in my domestic abode, I finally decided that I want to go out. After all, the pain in my back and the fever that I have been suffering from in the past two weeks were (Almost.) gone. So I decided to tag along Dudzki** after he convinced me that having his hair long isn't really his thing. A

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