{Painting by Maningning}

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Continued from The Best Designed Filipino Blogs

Last week Anton Diaz of The Awesome Planet posted a video interview of Abe Olandres. I asked Anton if he was the one who interviewed and took the video of Abe, and I got a confirmation. It was a raw and moving synopsis of Yuga and his reason for Problogging.
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Continued Manila Street Photos during Milenyo Storm

After writing my entry on the Milenyo storm, I've asked myself: whatever happened to (insert blogger) during the storm? What would people do if they experienced a week without gadgets & technology? Here's what I've found out:

September 28, 2006. GMT +8:00 Manila near City Hall

Before Lunch

9:00 A.M. My mother decided to go to Laguna to visit my sister. We discouraged our mother because of the impending storm. She wouldn't hear of it. She missed my sister and that's that. So off she goes.

{Book Cover by Nicanor David Jr. & Renerick Sevilla}

Continued from (Komedya Dekada 90)

Mag-aapat na taon na ng una kong maisipang silipin kung ano na ang nangyari sa mga mga kaklase ko noong high school. Mag-aapat na taon na rin ng una kong masilayan ang mga Kuwentong Tambay ni Nicanor "batjay" David.

I planned on writing this entry in an objective manner, but as I started writing, pieces of me resisted the cracking soil. It would be sacrilege on my part to do so. Besides, I read for pleasure first, for curiosity second, and for necessity last. So I indulged my senses, I trusted my gut, I laughed.

{Photo by Joan Cuenco}

"Why in the world did Jose Rizal placed Maria Clara," my classmate said, "on the pedestal?"

I was taken aback by his question, having been dazed by the just concluded play of Rizal's famous first novel at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The play, a required freshman viewing way back in college, was an enjoyable affair. The question is an abrupt awakening from a daze.

"We are all a product," I said, "of our own time."

{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.

{Painting by Maningning}

My aunt returned from Texas and lament how great the pay in the land of the brave home of the free. Perhaps, she told me, I should marry some Americana. Do I want to, if so, she could set me up with one of her nurse acquaintances? Do I want to?