{Painting by Peter Paul Rubens}

As I've watched Manny Pacquiao's fist land on the open wounds of Erik Morales's face, memories of the good old High School days, when my body still crave the smell of the enemies sweat in the sports arena, of the hunger for a win, came flooding through.

{Sassy Lawyer logo by Jonas Diego}

On the 2nd half of December 2005, one of the Philippines most respected blog, Sassy Lawyer (houseonahill.net), ceased to exist. Connie Veneracion, the woman behind Sassy Lawyer, broke one of the cardinal rules of system administrators and modern novelists: Backup Before Tinkering. In a series of human and device errors, she single-handedly brought down her three years of recorded sweat, blood, and tears.