Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Cross-posted from Filipinovoices.com
I’m supposed to be up in the crater lake of Mt. Pinatubo last weekend, but our trip was canceled at the last minute. Apparently, the RP-US military exercises known as Balikatan is being held in that particular mountain range, and no hikers are allowed up the mountains for safety reasons. With the odds [...]

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This is a crosspost from Filipinovoices.com, last October 31, 2008, before setting off for All Saint’s Day weekend.
In a few hours I shall be setting off and driving north towards my wife’s home province of Pangasinan, my adopted province since an unfortunate idiosyncrasy of my life is that I could trace seven generations back to [...]

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After a week of staying at home suffering from parotitis, I will be going back to the office tomorrownext week on the verge of new challenges: a training session, a new project, and some leaving colleagues. Not a pretty picture, but life’s like that.
Anyway, while I was at home I thought I would be able [...]

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My father left for the US two days ago to attend my cousin’s wedding. My cousin Felix will wed his girlfriend (whose parents are both Filipino) two Saturdays from now, and they’ve decided to have the wedding in formal Filipino garb.
Days before my dad’s departure he was frantically arranging for a barong to be made [...]

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I’m sure I’m not the only one who feel disinterested in this year’s elections.
Of the 24 opposition, administration and independent candidates (I don’t really consider KBL’s fieldings as real senatorial bets), I can only think of 3 or 4 persons that I might vote, and my decision to vote them is still pending some research [...]

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This blog has been bogged down (pun intended) . I also got hospitalized for a week with typhoid fever late last month.
I guess work has taken its toll on more than just my time.
Hope you’ll keep checking out this blog even if it’s been one post a month of late. Thanks for the continuing support.
Merry [...]

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It’s official: as of yesterday, you oughta throw out all those encyclopedias and Solar System mobiles, or at least break the last planet off, because Pluto does not fit the new definition of a planet as agreed by the International Astornomical Union, and is demoted to the status “dwarf planet”

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Carla’s entry about an article on entrepreneurship led me to the blog of Tony Lopez of BizNewsAsia.
In his articles, Lopez quotes Senator Manny Villar, who thinks that the most significant challenge that Filipino entrepreneurship faces is our own mindset regarding it:
The senator wondered why the Philippines haven’t progressed all these years. And he [...]

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In the continuing controversy behind whether the band Orange and Lemon’s song “Pinoy Ako” was copied from 80s new wave group The Care’s “Chandeliers”, music writer Giselle Roque emailed me recently and referred me to two items on the Manila Bulletin:
Orange and Lemons Cries foul!
While Orange and Lemons continues to say it is “saddened” by [...]

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Sparks of {caffeine sparks} posted in her blog “The Philippines is…”, a list of 50 traits our beloved (should I put that in quotes?) country is supposed to have. Of course as to most of these lists go, it’s all about how bad the Philippines is. We all know that already, don’t we?
Of course, I’m [...]

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