Happy New Year to all!

We used to light firecrackers and other pyrotechnics come New Year’s Eve.
The operative term there is “used.”
In New Year’s Eve, 1987, at an outdoor street party in our village, my mother was a foot away from being hit by a stray bullet. From that time on, we don’t buy firecrackers anymore.
In 1995, the year I [...]

Don’t ask me why…

Set my alarm clock (read: celphone) for 2:45 a.m. and my TV to turn on at the same time early this morning because I wanted to watch I’ll be there, the debut movie of Charlotte Church, then showing on HBO.
I don’t know what is it about this movie that I love. Is it the story [...]

Your loss, our gain

For those of you who had missed the PinoyBlog Christmas party last night, there was really nothing to miss, if your goal was to meet other Philippine bloggers. Some mix up caused this one to fizzle out, attendance-wise. Attended only by four bloggers: Yuga, La Vida Lawyer and myself, with Jeff Vergara making a brief [...]

The after-birthday entry

To those who greeted me on my birthday, be it by a text message or through a post in this blog, thanks. The small party went well, the food and non-alcoholic drinks were enough and I think there are still some leftovers…
Just fifteen years away before my warranty expires. You see, with my lifestyle and [...]

A Birthday Dilemma

Today I celebrate my 35th birthday. Planned nothing much today. Some relatives are coming over this afternoon and we’ll have some spagetti and barbecue (and probably some cake and ice cream). It will be a real children’s party, to awaken the inner child in me, as they say…
Reunion went well yesterday but I feel some [...]

The Work of Christmas

(by Howard Thurman)
When the song of angels is stilled
When the star in the sky is gone
When the kings and princes are home
When the shepherds are back with their flock
The work of Christmas begins
To find the lost, to heal the broken
To feed the hingry, free the prisoners
To rebuild nations, to bring peace among brothers
To make music [...]

A proper holiday greeting!

As you may notice, I chose the safe greeting “Happy Holidays!” as I made my rounds through the blogosphere. I was concerned as I wanted to be politically correct, gender-sensitive, religiously tolerant in my greeting. And this is the best I could find:

Bea and Nico with cousins Merphi and Milka
Insert non-offensive, gender sensitive,
politically-correct, religiously-tolerant
holiday announcement [...]

Night Flight: Live in Digital

Currently listening to some songs from the Night Flight: Live in Digital music compilation of Carlo Santos, the veritable Bukas Palad Online webmaster. Well, he’s not just its webmaster, but he also sings in Bukas Palad, too. And his voice is not that bad (Kidding, Carlo! If I had half your voice quality, I would [...]

Christmas Work

Whew! The last working day before Christmas and I’m still working.
Just only goes to show that problems pop up and don’t observe holidays or have any holiday spirit whatsoever.
Still had some trouble over at my government consultancy. Two, as a matter of fact. Had to work on both on them but most of the tasks [...]

Waaaaaahhhhhhh!

This day taught me a simple rule: Obey and trust your iMac.
Lindsay told me not to disconnect my iPod while updating. I disobeyed. Not only did I disconnect my iPod, but I also forced Lindsay into a hardware reset, because I thought iTunes already hung.
I was wrong. So what was my punishment?
Nothing much. My iTunes [...]