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A Friend of the Sorianos Speaks

nealm — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:03 +0000

This is an email I received from Lovely Aseron two days ago. The facts are disturbing and I think everyone following this story, and the general public, should know this. My clarification–not justification–on certain details is in red. Hi, I’m a friend of the Soriano family. My fiance, Edu Abalos, is a first cousin of [...]

Nicolo’s Body Recovered, Car Found; Romulo Still Missing

nealm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:50:37 +0000

I have a confirmed report from a Batangas Police Provincial Office source that as of 3:42 pm Manila Time (GMT +8) today, 3-year-old Nicolo Soriano‘s body was recovered near Tingloy, an island-municipality across the Batangas Bay, a linear distance of about 15 miles (about 25 kilometers) from the site of the collapsed bridge and 32 [...]

A Bridge That Broke Its Promise

nealm — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:05:43 +0000

Typhoon Santi (Mirinae) washed away a four-decade-old, 20-ton-capacity steel Bridge of Promise at 7:30 a.m. today, when the Signal #3 typhoon was leaving Batangas City. A family in their white Honda Civic car was crossing the bridge on their way to Manila when it actually collapsed and plunged into the murky Calumpang river. One of the three [...]

And The Winner Is…

nealm — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:32:44 +0000

Juan de la Cruz! or Joe Blow! or Jane Doe! (Of course, I would have been twice merrier if it was me!) Of all the brilliance and luminosity of the bloggers and pundits at the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards Awards Night last October 9th, nothing shines brighter than the light of freedom. And the true [...]

Flippin’ Over Flippish

nealm — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:47:12 +0000

It can’t get any better than this! You get to show your love by voting for The Digitizer and get the chance to win a Nokia 2330 Classic? Talking about quid pro quo (scratch my back and i’ll give you a back rub!). Here’s the email I got fr0m the Flippin’, I mean, Flippish Team [...]

The Blog Awards And My Front Tooth

nealm — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:33:50 +0000

Got this in my email today, and suddenly it felt all too real for me! I started to run in my mind the inventory in my closet — no, I ran towards the closet! — and then feverishly thumbed through my hung clothes. Black! You can’t go wrong in black! Ugh, I have to buy [...]

2009 Philippine Blog Awards’ Luminous Finalists

nealm — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:34:15 +0000

I have yet to earn a cent from blogging, but who cares when your peers recognize your work? This is what I posted for my Facebook status update after I learned that The Digitizer is among the 20 finalists in the Best Personal Blog Nationwide Category (announced yesterday, September 23rd) : Win or lose, it [...]

Offline Blues

nealm — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:41:28 +0000

It’s 12:20 p.m. and I am at a cybercafe trying to normalize my life without an internet connection at home for about, oh, a week now. Blame it on Digitel‘s incompetent, unprofessional and unacceptable business conduct (it’ll be one pithy post to come, I tell ya). Anyhoo, as I am trying to tinker the keyboard [...]

Serving Justice, Saving Souls

nealm — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:22:05 +0000

J. Reuben Clark Law Society-Philippines: A Year of Dispensing Legal Service with the Energies of their Soul When I lived in California, a lawyer acquaintance of mine once tried to sell a prepaid legal service membership to me. It wasn’t cheap but what really made me fish for my credit card was when he finally [...]

Non-Chick Cheap Chic

nealm — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:20:25 +0000

Don’t tell me you haven’t had those moments: finding steals so irresistible they melt your steely resolve away. I wish I didn’t know what S-A-L-E means and that it didn’t have to be in a come-hither, sin-red color emblazoned across store fronts or stuck in strategic places and item tags to consummate the temptation. If [...]