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I don't want to sound Mother Theresa-ish but recent circumstances in my life have left me mature in dealing with things and in accepting life's turmoils.

I get sad once in a while but unlike before, I always seem to have a way of getting over that sadness and rise up to the challenge. There are no more sulking or wallowing in sadness.

The bigger our problems, the smaller our life's issues before were. Things that irk me before are smaller compared to recent problems. ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 1, 2010

I AM THE FIRST to arrive at the meeting place in Tisa, Cebu City in the very early morning of June 12, 2010. Today is Philippine Independence Day and I aim to refresh my love of country by participating in the 2nd Freedom Climb on one of the two designated campsites in the Babag Mountain Range. Sixty-five summits will be climbed all over the country and around the world where there are Filipino patriots.

The ...

I probably hold the record for the person with the longest time in the CR in our family. When my father was alive, he would pound on the door and insist that I stop reading.

Yes, I read in the CR. And I read a lot. Sometimes when my thinking is in tune with the speed of diarrhea, I would grab any reading material that I get hold of: shampoo or soap box labels. I seemed to have memorized those commercially framed texts at the back of our favorite shampoo and soap products. For the life ...

I was at the back part of our house, seriously doing my laundry when a little boy from outside our gate was singing, "Starfish are meant to fly..." My automatic lyrics-recognition-sans-grammar-Nazi self went on haywire mode when I heard this. My brain was like, "Isn't that supposed to be: 'Starships are meant to fly?'"

Oh well, it was kinda cute. But I'm not about to talk about grammar here. This incident was actually the same thing that popped to my brain when I ...

I was updating my iStorya.net account when I came across a thread similar to my entry's title. I started a few lines with:

"To someone who can't be mine,

It's been 2++ weeks since I last saw you and several days of zero communication. Separating ways is difficult and it's getting into my nerves every single day but I am hoping that this freaking decision is worth it -- hoping that I won't be regretting this."

And I got a little more excited to write ...

Like having an inkling of the appearance of rain, I seemed to have known his life would not stay longer, contrary to the reports that came out in the press.

His life on screen, spanning 40 years or so, has been really colorful. With innumerable wives and children from his different relationships, he has proven his romantic proclivity, on and off cam. For which lady who, after hearing his jokes, would not fall in love with such an endearing man? They say he epitomized the proverbial ...

Teaching can be viewed as the most taxing yet fulfilling vocation there is. Yet there are snippets of a teacher's life that makes him really appreciate the profession.

Usually, the rather uncalled-for-break from the usual routinary tasks of discussing, giving tests and staging role plays and endless extra-curricular activities, one's way to relax and keep one from totally getting stressed are those what students produce: their answers from tests and seatworks. I would like to share ...