his eyes had a secret color that can only be seen on either dawn or twilight: that magic moment when Light and Darkness grapple with each other in their never-ending dance for supremacy. his eyes then would have the color of the palest cinnamon, glowing ember brown the more you stare at it, like how the number of stars in the sky burst the more you observe them. and when the ...
Updated 06-19-2013 at 04:25 PM by gareb
Featured in Warrior Pilgrimage on November 22, 2010 IT HAD BEEN raining very hard last night but it had not dampened the spirit of an impending Russian invasion today, June 26, 2010, along the trails of Napo to Mount Babag. As I sit on a concrete plant box in the parking lot of the Our Lady of Guadalupe de Cebu, a big Hyundai Starex arrive with a miniature flag of the Russian Federation attached at the back windshield. I waited for an emissary and out goes a Welshman ...
Updated 10-07-2012 at 12:27 PM by pinoyapache
at a gas station convenience store waiting for a break from the rain, a voice. "... and so because i want your demon-infested brain to cool down a bit, and well, because you asked for it, i give you rain. non-stop for three days. make that four. "i give you cold, cuddle-conducive nights, lazy mornings better spent in bed and afternoons best with hot choco and a good book. "i'll also give you cold-as-zero-below showers; cold enough to freeze ...
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). ...
Updated 09-09-2012 at 11:29 PM by shey0811
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