Jul

5

I Blame My Brother for Everything

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It was my first year in college, attending the first of five years studying architecture at the University of Sto. Tomas. When I decided to acquiesce to my parents request that I pursue architecture rather than fine arts, I started to prepare myself for a life long career as an architect. As a plan, it [...]

Jun

13

It’s Different When You’re Personally Involved

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It was perfectly understandable when ABS-CBN asked others in the media to keep a news blackout on the kidnapping of Ces Drilon and crew. It was as they said, “made primarily for the security and safety of Ces and her companions.”
But I do find it strange that the same kind of courtesy wasn’t in place [...]

Jun

2

Eugene and Coffee

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It’s a been a year, almost to the day, that my dog Eugene, died. I didn’t talk about it on this blog because I find it uncomfortable to talk about very personal things here. Much of that personal stuff I keep offline and between family and close friends. But I couldn’t help express that grief [...]

May

2

“Impossible”

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There was a time when I believed working in comics wouldn’t be possible. Superman and Batman and the X-Men were just things I read, created by god-like people in some fantasy land. Well, I was very young back then and my view of the world was still quite limited. Inspired by the comics I read, [...]

Apr

21

Lost

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Leaving the old house today, I saw these two dirty puppies right on our front doorstep. Ok, it was more like gate-step. They looked bewildered, looking around as if seeing everything for the first time. Since our old house runs along a very busy street, the things were in very real danger of getting run [...]

Apr

16

What’s Truly Important

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It’s the reason why we’re all here, I’d like to believe. It’s the reason why we went to school and why we had to learn all this stuff, why we work and why we fight so passionately for what is rightfully ours. We do it so that one day we will have the means not [...]

Jan

18

Elmer and the Family

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One of the rare times our family is together in one place. This was taken on January 1, 2008, at our old house here in San Pablo. I suppose I shouldn’t call it an old house because after all, it was constructed in 1989. But it is the site of the house we used to [...]

Dec

10

TAYLOR HICKS in MANILA, December 2007!

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Yes! 2006’s American Idol (and no it’s not Chris Daughtry) TAYLOR HICKS is coming to Manila to perform at the Glorietta in Makati from December 18, 19 and 20, 2007!
Now, I rooted for Taylor to win, and I’m a casual fan… but my wife is the uber crazy fan. As in CRAZY. I’ve known her [...]

Aug

10

Only In The Philippines

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“Tales of The Big City” is a series of short stories I did for PULP MAGAZINE during its initial issues in 2000. On its third issue, I wrote the story of a bus driver, inspired by real events I read about in the newspapers.
I just read it again and I was taken aback by how [...]

Jul

21

A Tragic Turn of Events

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Blogging is something I hadn’t planned on doing again so soon, but there are a couple of things I wanted to write about that just can’t wait.
But before that, no apologies for my earlier post. I meant every word. I still feel the same way now, and even more so, specially in the light of [...]

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