Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

UPDATE: An interesting discussion on this topic ensued at MLQ3‘s blog post Worse than Marcos?. Yesterday, Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino.com twitted about “Experience of a first time OFW“, an article on the Kabayan Hotel OFW blog that discusses the thoughts and feelings of first-time OFW Gilbert Roque. Gilbert’s plight is something that most of us [...]

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Around lunchtime today, my officemates and I all suddenly thought we were going dizzy, realizing a few moments later that we were already feeling an earthquake. The US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program pegs the quake at Magnitude 6.0, with the epicenter at 16.037°N, 119.906°E, Northwest of Manila. Firing up Google Maps and keying in [...]

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…but I’m not pushing through with it and it sucks Melynn and I along with her barkada have been planning this trip for months, but the latest pair of typhoons, Lando and Mina come way too close of each other, and typhoon Mina threatens to become a super typhoon. To further underscore the risks, a [...]

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I’m taking a break from the really serious topics I’ve tackled of late (okay, I admit, Sidney’s challenge on my last post is a difficult one!). So some pics for now from last Saturday night’s pictures of Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 big winner Bea Saw‘s birthday bash, where I finally stopped envying my sister: [...]

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The newspapers and airwaves the other day were filled with the saddening news of an 11-year-old killing herself over poverty in Davao City: Using a thin nylon rope, 12-year-old Mariannet Amper hanged herself in the afternoon of November 2. She was a sixth grader at the Maa Central Elementary School. … Along with her diary, [...]

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Jeff Atwood, a distinguished software developer, writes about the early days of his career without a direction, finding the career that he loves, and having fun while doing his job. : Like my Dad, I spent many years after college flitting from job to job. I had nothing to complain about. I was making a [...]

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Earlier this year a lot of us received forwarded images of a Ferrari F430 on fire. It was later posted as a video by a guy who’s part of the Ferrari’s convoy: While seeing a car burn to the ground is shocking enough for most people, a Ferrari F430 is worth a staggering 12 million [...]

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My daughter CJ will turn three this December, and increasingly, the most usual question that people pop when we talk about kids is “wala pa bang kasunod yan?” I usually laugh it off, but sometimes it becomes irritating when the questions grow in number. I mean, sometimes the way the question is asked almost sounds [...]

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I made the following comment on Torn And Frayed in Manila‘s post, Erap: It never happened: Nothing surprises me in Philippine politics anymore, torn. I think you should get used to it — in a morbid kind of way — like a coroner getting used to the dead. and it irked a fellow named Cogs: [...]

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I got this in my email the other day, and it made me sad: Marj is a friend from Canada (she migrated there around 1995) who I met over mIRC in 1998 and met in real-life around 2000. We lost touch after I started working in 2002. A month before my wedding in 2004, I [...]

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