I was clueless about it the entire day, until I received a text message from my dad.  He forwarded a message from his friend, who complimented him about my contribution to Young Blood, the popular column for the “twentysomething and below”, regularly published on the opinion page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
My dad’s friend was […]

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I wish to thank talksmart for nominating this site as Filipino Blog of the week at http://salaswildthoughts.blogspot.com/.  This is certainly as first.
I’m really honored as it is simply being nominated, knowing that this site has readers from all over.  At maraming salamat din sa mga boboto at bumuboto.  God bless!

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I wish to take this opportunity once more to thank my good friends from the industry, who came to the thanksgiving dinner/salu-salo at my place last May 17.  As I had said that night, I know how hard it is to drive all the way from Quezon City to Alabang especially on a Saturday.  Looking forward to […]

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Have I stopped counting?
This perhaps, is the question subconsiously lurking in my mind all day, on my birthday.  It’s 10:29 p.m., and it’s only now that I realize that aside from this day being “special” and on top of all the eating, I’ve just turned one year older.  On Friendster, where I don’t declare my true […]

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 There are moments that make simple good memories and good stories.  But there are moments you just wish would never end.
This whole night is one of them.
As I write this post, my sister, brother-in-law, and their one-year old son, Adrian — my first immediate nephew and the first grandson in the family – are less than four hours away from going back […]

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It is four days after the event, but I still have a great hangover from Swing Out Sister, which performed here in Manila last Monday.  It certainly made my week — and even my 2008!  Having shared the evening with two good friends, Nadia Trinidad and Jove Francisco, who are true-blue SOS fans themselves, even made the event […]

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Traffic and euphoria at bus stations, seaports and airports aside, it really now is turning out to be a slow, calming, Holy Week.  If there’s one mundane thing I very much look forward on Good Friday, it’s the sight of virtually empty roads in the Metropolis and that annual, simultaneous personal wish that road conditions in […]

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