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Entries from July 2005

CJ goes swimming

July 30th, 2005 · 11 Comments

CJ goes swimming while daddy holds her.
CJ had her first baby-swimming lessons today. The lessons were held at an indoor pool at Somerset Hotel - Salcedo in Makati, and are conducted by the well known Bert Lozada Swim School.
At first she was afraid of the water, then next she was distracted by her classmates [...]

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Media, Jologphobia and the Jologs Subculture

July 28th, 2005 · 15 Comments

My wife and I had an argument last night, and it was about, of all things, ABS-CBN’s variety show ASAP. See, one of our flowergirls is a family friend who happens to be a child actress, and appeared in several soaps in both ABS-CBN and GMA. My wife’s cousins usually tag along and watch ASAP [...]

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Engrish Weddings, Out-of-town Trips, Editing Books and All-Nighters

July 27th, 2005 · 6 Comments

I know it’s 1 AM, and it’s way past my bedtime. But an email I’m sending (2.5 megs worth) is taking an eternity to upload, and my head is aching from the coffee (bawal sakin pero I miss it na talaga) and can’t sleep, so here I am, blogging instead.
The out-of-town-trip last weekend was great. [...]

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Long Weekend in Pangasinan

July 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

I’ve gone out of town this weekend and went home with the family to my wife’s hometown, just 2 hours short of Baguio. I thought I’d be off the net for the entire time. My wife’s newly opened computer prevented that from happening.
We’re still deciding whether to go home on Sunday night or Monday morning [...]

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Yes, Virginia, GMA did good to the economy

July 21st, 2005 · 11 Comments

Efren Ll. Cruz, author of the book “Pwede Na! The Complete Guide to Personal Finance,” sent an email that has an attachment of an Excel file prepared by ATR Kim Eng Securities, Inc. It is a chart tabulating various economic indicators from the Marcos regime (1980) up to the current Arroyo administration (as of 2004).
Mr. [...]

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Yuck You’re So Bastos! - Redux

July 21st, 2005 · 3 Comments

Manila Standard Today columnist Connie Veneracion, better known as the Sassy Lawyer, discusses about the dynamics of Filipinos’ treatment of sex-related words in her column today. Her piece inspired me to re-post one of my previous entries in my friendster blog, entitled “Yuck You’re So Bastos! - Unang Bahagi” and “Yuck You’re So Bastos! - [...]

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Hello Garci… It’s Joke Time!

July 19th, 2005 · 5 Comments

I think it’s time for GMA jokes… if you could laugh about it. I sure can.
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Bunye’s favorite song:
I have 2 discs, the left and the right, 1 is orig and 1 is fake, hear them slowly 123, all you can hear is “HELLO GARCI”
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GMA to Garci: Hello Garci. Pasahan mo naman ako ng [...]

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The Definition of Elite Rule

July 16th, 2005 · 4 Comments

My wife’s cousin Bonn, a protege of former UP chancellor Dodong Nemenzo and a strong believer of the leftist ideal, posted an invitation to the protest rally last Wednesday (which he was unable to attend, being outside of the country taking up Masters in Political Science). In it he advocates the “End to Elite Rule,” [...]

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Cash Coupons

July 16th, 2005 · 3 Comments

This was sent to me in a forwarded email. If this Cash Coupon is real, it just proves the true meaning of politics in our country — with the vaunted masa’s consent.

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Call of Sacrifice

July 14th, 2005 · No Comments

My wife’s good friend Dandin Padlan sent us this beautiful piece of his mind about calls for sacrifice during these trying times:
One call we often hear today, when people ask President Arroyo to resign, is the call to make the ultimate sacrifice for the good of the country.
Now that is a call that we can [...]

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