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like every kid, i once dreamed of blasting off toward the skies in a rocket ship, away from everything else that festers inside gravity's oppressive grasp. i wanted to pull myself away into those distant twinkling promises of a new grounds to land my feet on. i wanted to explore each patch of sky, constellation by constellation, for civilizations where i might belong.

and now that i have somehow grown up, every ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 15, 2010.

CHRISTMAS HERE IN THE Philippines is prepared earlier than usual as compared with other countries. When the “-ber” ending months starts to be displayed in wall calendars, Filipinos start to move about as if Christmas is just around the corner. Trust the shopkeepers and mall owners, they stick to traditions.

Christmas Philippine-style is celebrated by releasing or exploding firecrackers in the air or on a ...

nostalgia became the fuel for a conversation that attempted to capture nine years worth of lives lived and lessons learned. friends from way back, back when the world was simpler, and smiles still did not have any reservations behind them...

recollections of places and people and how everything was. overlapping memories; a collage of the present and the past. everything set in that little place we now ...

"You're nothing but a second-rate trying-hard copycat!"

Who would have forgotten this famous line that Lavinia (played by Cherie Gil) said to Dorina (Sharon Cuneta) in that movie and serialized comic strip, Bituing Walang Ningning while she pours her glass of wine on her face?

The word copycat may have originated from observing the habits of kittens that learned by imitating the behaviors of their mothers. It has been in recorded use since at least 1896 (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Copycat). ...

nursing a broken heart, he went back to that place that circumstance once almost forced him to call home; that place where people's skins were darker than their eyes. he wanted to once again find solace in their wisdom and their uncanny ability to reduce reality into simple, somber sentences.

it began not too long ago. coming home from work, his heart began to beat irregularly. dancing on its own arrhythmic beat, he had it checked by a cardiologist who said that he was having heart ...

I fancy how things are made--like how babies are made and why are Storks carrying a baby in a bundle of fabric. I haven't seen a Stork in real life, you know. One time, I was curious how babies are made, so... I read lots and lots of books. What are you thinking?

They say with proper and right ingredients,making babies is easy. I say, it's also about the right timing on how and when to bake one. I made one and she's a handful.

Then I read about chocolate

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More than three hours drive from Bislig, a town in Surigao del Sur is another breath-taking island destination, Bonbon Island in Brittania. Just like any other hidden paradise, Bonbon Island boasts of its pristine waters and waves that make one want to seriously try surfing.

Last April, I had another rare opportunity to be toured around Bonbon Islabd with just my sunscreen, bikinis and a lot of adrenaline rush to top what I dub as my one-of-a-kind adventure.

With the ...