Remembering the Queen of Hearts

I was in my 5th grade.  Seated in the middle of the lecture room with my classmates, Ms. Balagot was not in her usual self.  Our grumpy spinster teacher was not scary, hostile and sinister that lovely morning.  Rather, teacher Balagot was smiling and seems excited.  After lecturing a couple of topics, she suddenly pulled [...]

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Analyses on Venus Raj Q&A

It has been less than 24 hours but multitudes of people have been judging, mocking or are still in the process of making fun on the answer given by Ms. Philippines to the question asked by one of the judges in the recently concluded Ms. Universe 2010.  I personally believed that she was thrown with [...]

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What If Ninoy…

With today’s commemoration on the death anniversary of Ninoy Aquino Sr., the incredible modern day Filipino hero, have you ever wondered what if Ninoy did not decide to come home to the Philippines exactly 27 years ago?  What if Ninoy chose to stay in the US, enjoy the Boston hospitality and settle for a more [...]

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Craving for Mockingjay

Five days before its worldwide release, I barged in at the metro’s most popular bookstore and tried my luck to inquire if Mockingjay is already available.  It is not in store yet but I was surprised to know that the ubiquitous book house is already accepting reservations at a price of two hundred pesos.  By [...]

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Make A Wish!

I wish everyone have a job. I wish everyone knows how to read. I wish there is cure for every disease. I wish there is better stuff on TV. I wish hate was a thing of the past. I wish LOVE for all. I wish for your wish to come true. I wish we didn’t [...]

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Manila Doctors College Appalling Appelations

Being an alumnus, I was saddened to learn from the grapevine that the present officers of Manila Doctors College have plans of changing the name of the school.  According to the outrageous rumor, the executives are contemplating on changing the name because the degree courses to be added are not going to be “health related” [...]

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FlipTop: The Modern Day Balagtasan

I disagree that Balagtasan – the Filipino art of publicly arguing in extemporaneous, scaled and rhymed poetry manner – is dead!  There is a new form of modern day Pinoy poetry emerging nowadays called FlipTop (Filipino Rap Battle League).  The partakers are young street-smart dudes who can be considered geniuses in the contemporary Filipino language. [...]

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A Lan Kwai Fong Episode

One of the highlights of my recent Hong Kong trip was the Saturday night clubbing at Lan Kwai Fong.  Though it has been a couple of weeks already, I admit that I totally enjoyed that night in that part of Hong Kong in which it would be a sin not to write about it. Lan [...]

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Itching for Les Miserables

More than 10 years ago when Video City (VHS video rental house) was still the “in” thing to do to catch-up and see previous movies people failed to see in the cinemas (pirated DVDs were virtually non-existent and is sooo illegal then, now its not so illegal anymore hahaha!), I stumbled upon a VHS of [...]

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