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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 [...]

If only…

 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 [...]

Swing Out Sister…At Last!

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 [...]

Nilay-nilay, muni-muni ngayong Semana Santa

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 [...]

Thank you, thank you

 
I’m back from my month-long vacation!  Back to reality, ika nga, which includes being a Filipino during these said to be trying times.
Still, I would again like to take this opportunity to thank many relatives and friends in the US for giving me a most memorable month:
Tito Dennis, Tita Kit, JR, Kevin, and Katrina Sadang
Lolo Senyong, [...]