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For soap addicts

by | Feb 19, 2007 | Life

Are you fond of soaps? Not the bubble-producing thing you use for washing, but the thing you watch on TV that can make you cry buckets of tears or make somebody emotionally charged or even passionately angry. I know some friends who would not want to miss their...

Another homesick OFW

by | Feb 16, 2007 | Life

Isn’t it cool to receive a message from an old friend? I was wondering who sent me  an SMS, so after an exchange of ‘who’s this and how are you blah blahs’, I found out it was from one of my classmates in our review. He is currently working in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia...
Taking the long way home

Taking the long way home

by | Feb 10, 2007 | Life

I was walking slowly along the sidewalk which was already dark except for some yellow light radiating from the lamp posts and the occasional glare from the cars and motorcycles passing me by. The last Mass for Sunday at the Ruamrudee church in Bangkok had just ended...
Stepping out of a dream

Stepping out of a dream

by | Feb 2, 2007 | Life, Travel

The building is 309 meters tall, or about the height of 182 people standing one on top of the other. The area inside the building is 179,400 square meters or about 30 football fields. There are 1,740 windowpanes in the building. About the same number of windowpanes...
Kids’ logic

Kids’ logic

by | Jan 18, 2007 | Life

You can never underestimate the energy and intelligence of kids nowadays. My pamangkins (Filipino for nephews and nieces) are the hyper-active types, they go restless if they don’t do anything at home. And when they tell me some of their ideas and stories, I am just...