More endearing than any fairy tale love story is a real one. A remarkable rarity, more so, for one that starts at a barbecue and halo-halo stand in Camp Dangwa, La Trinidad and ends up in an NBA game at the Spectrum Center in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Well, clearly, it started way earlier …
The stage welcomes solo performances in any stage of life. Most of the time and just like any momentous experience, the solo flight starts rough, or even ugly, and rightfully so in the gamble of life, and the investment of thoughts and emotions. The closest people become enemies or strangers, and the rage of the …
Yesterday, I had a lengthy discussion with a friend who is currently in Europe working in one of the countries there. The trigger of that conversation was, “kabsat, do you know anything about crypto?” What she meant was cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are digital or virtual currencies that use cryptography for security and operate independently of a …
Standing at five feet tall and a person who is chubby (take note, chubby but not fat) with small framed bones and a small face, I have often been mistaken as less than my actual age. Some say, perhaps I have that look because I didn’t have any problems. There it goes – fat chance! …
At 1:22 a.m., on a humid bud of a Thursday, it started quite odd, writing on the opposite of what I am. But it got quite easy soon enough, thankfully, writing on things I am not. Things about A.A. Pedro (Arthur Aguinsod Pedro). About a work ethic tucked tight into a character as solid as …
A Decade after Graduation Since April is here, well, while I’m writing this article anyway, I suddenly remembered that this year marks a decade after my college graduation. A decade. I’ll let that phrase sink in for a moment. Okay, now the phrase has settled better in my consciousness. Kidding aside, it has been a …
A few months back, I had a bad experience with a budget airline flying from Davao. I was asked to pay an excessively expensive amount for exceeding the baggage allowance. Long story short, I vowed never to take this budget airline ever again. When I came home to the Philippines over the weekend, I chose …
Magnets. Made of iron. Aluminum. Nickel. A symbol of attracting and repelling some force field or specifically – a magnetic field. Were you magnetized by his or her charm? So much that your end-wits ended in a collision of sorts? Way to go right? Physics! Metallurgical engineering! Too many terms. Too many words. Point is …
‘Unpredictable high winds and misfortunes are in the skies!’ -Chinese Adage Like a bad Kung Fu movie, duh has become of the Chinese incursion. Their ships roil near our shores. They hose our supply boats, chop stick our fish, thumb nose my heroes. An open grab, if you ask me. An Imperialist dim sum China …
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Failure and loss that make us feel less confident. We may feel like we are running all over the place while doing our best to solve everything. There may also be times when it seems like nothing eventful is happening, as if our life is stagnant and we are merely going through the motions. We …
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