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Bad Weekend

2009-10-31T00:54:00.013+08:00

Manny Villar is a funny guy. No, really, he's so funny you have got to fart so hard just by hearing his story of ascent from rags to riches. It's believable, of course, but not without thinking about...

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Some Reasons

2009-10-26T00:33:00.000+08:00

They say his only claim to fame is his last name, which Kris herself also has. Others say he hasn't done much during his term as a member of the House of Representatives. Still, some others say the...

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Tax This

2009-10-08T00:01:00.003+08:00

Unless you're a filthy businessman or a hardcore activist, or perhaps some other creature out to defy everything that stands between you and your liberty, there's this one thing in this world, or at...

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Twenty-Three Summers

2009-10-02T00:01:00.069+08:00

Today, twenty-three summers have passed since the first moment I greeted this world—with a middle finger raised high or not, I do not know—and I get a super typhoon for a gift. For the past several...

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Almost Perfect

2009-09-29T14:26:00.023+08:00

I was barely a teenager back then but typhoons have been as ordinary as air is to lungs. From where I grew up, which is a town adjacent to Naga City, tropical depressions and storms were not...

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Peñafrancia

2009-09-19T22:40:00.093+08:00

The last time I was there was almost five or six years ago. Human memory has its own ways of making you forget some of the few precious things which you would always want to remember, and this is not...

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Trapo Ka

2009-09-14T00:01:00.024+08:00

Tila lumalabas na ang tunay na kulay ni Manny Villar. Kamakailan lang ay naglabas siya ng kanyang pahayag patungkol sa kung sino ang pipiliin niya na makasama sa pangangampanya sa...

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Baptism of Fire

2009-09-10T18:59:00.072+08:00

I've heard it even before Noynoy Aquino formally declared his bid for the presidency yesterday. They say, Hacienda Luisita and Noynoy Aquino do not mix, like oil and water. No matter which way or how...

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Mantra

2009-09-07T05:51:00.106+08:00

I haven't been able to regularly watch TV these past few months. Somehow, I still manage to squeeze a few minutes in my daily routine watching the evening news program and a few minutes into the...

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Retreat

2009-09-05T13:19:00.001+08:00

Cerge Remonde, one of the countless mouthpieces of the Palace, says Gloria turns to prayer if she feels down over her consistently low approval ratings. If she is bothered at all, he says, she has...

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Questions

2009-09-03T21:28:00.080+08:00

So where is Noynoy Aquino's platform of government? I have heard some people ask that question in the past few days. Surely, they say, you cannot run this country without having at least a vision of...

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Yours Alone

2009-09-01T23:40:00.067+08:00

It must have been a bitter and sweet moment for Mar Roxas. He it was, or his supporters, who massively financed his television advertisements early on. With Mar on the pedicab's driver seat, the ads...

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What?

2009-08-29T21:26:00.137+08:00

In here and there, I received two comments similar in toto from one Winston Frobs. While I absolutely agree with François Marie Arouet—or Voltaire, take your pick—when he said that I may not agree...

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Peace is a Lost Pigeon

2009-08-28T00:01:00.002+08:00

Because we have utterly failed to protect our selves from our greatest enemy. Our selves. This eternal nemesis consumes the very souls of those who take advantage of its powers, causing senses to...

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Restless Dream

2009-08-15T00:01:00.071+08:00

I have been reading, or rereading, Philippine prehistory quite recently. For one, the task had something to do with lifting the sheer weight of academic demands off my shoulders. After all, I am a...

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Learning from Cory

2009-08-01T13:51:00.101+08:00

It wasn't ambition which powered her to command the people and lead them like a shepherd would do to his flock. It was the command of the people that empowered her, thrusting them towards the ambit...

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A Demented Mental State

2009-07-28T22:18:00.058+08:00

I heard one say that the SONA ought to be delivered in Filipino, particularly in these dire times when all we can afford is a bad joke. For the most part, it stands for good reason. You want to tell...

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Exhilarating, Excruciating

2009-07-17T08:21:00.065+08:00

Two words. Exhilarating and excruciating. Or make that exhilarating yet excruciating, which then becomes a whole phrase. The wind and rain of the tropical storm went from almost every direction...

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So Far So Good

2009-06-30T13:47:00.001+08:00

That sums up my first two weeks in law school. So far, almost everything has been doing well and good. So far, there's little reason to think that the struggles formidably presenting themselves are...

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Envy Them

2009-06-23T20:03:00.088+08:00

At four minutes past eight in the evening, it is raining. Outside, our neighbors are caterwauling, which is the least bit of comfort one can receive after another day spent trying to understand what...

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Freedom in Chains

2009-06-13T04:32:00.162+08:00

Somewhere in the city, someone has to brave the callous deed of selling flesh and soul during the most unholy hours of the night. For men who have deprived themselves of morality or have endured a...

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Selective Memory

2009-06-08T21:52:00.082+08:00

I don't know what Prospero Nograles has been eating lately, but it seems his food has not been doing anything good for his memory. Presumably in defense of HR1109, he raises his concern that "[w]hen...

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Inspired Madness

2009-06-03T00:02:00.092+08:00

There you go. The swift approval of the House of Representatives on House Resolution 1109 is nothing but the height of madness. It isn't nowhere near inspired. On the contrary, it is everywhere close...

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Balara

2009-05-25T11:08:00.002+08:00

There are no fields of amber grain, no stalks of rice that bend with the wind, greeting you as you begin the day with the sun just a little above the horizon lines. Save for the trees that surround...

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Shack and Awe

2009-05-20T00:41:00.104+08:00

Wow. That was the first word that slipped through my teeth after reading the latest spur against Filipinos. In an interview in Late Show with David Letterman, Alec Baldwin remarked "I think about...

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