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Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 5, 2007

2007 HAS BEEN A good and kind year for me. It has brought me a series of very simple joys despite the travails of a mid-life crisis, particularly of my being laid off from work. For that, I am thankful I have all the time in my hand.

I get to have more quality time with myself and my family that I haven’t had the opportunity to do so before. Also, I get to have more personal conversations with Him -- who is ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on October 8, 2007

IT IS ONCE said in the 19th century: that the gunpowder is the devil's most destructive invention ever and that guns were the offspring of this vile instrument of death. Ever since Samuel Colt created and mass-produced the first sophisticated weapon in the world in 1860, there had been far more many mortality of humans and animals alike in a short span of roughly a hundred and fifty years when modern guns, cannons, bombs ...

Back in the days of my youth in MSU, Marawi, my family would sit round the dinner table, and while having lunch or supper, we would engage in all sorts of talk, from the trivial to the philosophical, from the mundane to the esoteric. I have to say that, apart from formal schooling, I learned most of what I know, from Aardvarks to Zygotes, while enjoying a simple supper of Sinangag, chorizo, or bulad, as my parents mediated over the discussions.

Occasionally (or perhaps I should say, ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on January 16, 2008.

MOUNT PANGASUGAN (5,650 feet above sea level) is the first adventure trek which I had with the Cebu Mountaineering Society or CeMS. At that time, I was not yet a member but trying out to be one and on July 31, 1992 we left Pier 3, Cebu Harbor on board M/V “Pink Rose” for Baybay, Leyte at 8:00 in the evening to achieve one of the many requirements for membership with a major climb at Mt. Pangasugan, with or without a typhoon. ...

In recent portrayals by Caucasian Christian artists, Yeshua of Nazareth (a.k.a. Jesus Christ) has typically been shown with a light skin, a long "Presbyterian" nose, very long hair, and a height probably in excess of six feet. The face of Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus in the movie "The

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Originally Posted by CaseyR.

Hahaha naunsa na ni mga higala
nabuang nko cgeg katawa
tungods ka lingaw aning istorya
nawala akong mga problema

nakahinumdum kos akong lola
nga pwerte jd tawng bogoya
kung ako mangayo ug kwarta
dayung kuot sa iyang arinola.


bow..

Maibog man sad tag samot uy.

Mingaw nako nmu.

I saw some photos of the massacre this evening. As one would expect from photos of such nature, they were disturbing. Among the photos was a list of names. The victims' names. Just out of plain curiousity I nonchalantly typed in one of the names I saw on the list on Facebook's search feature. The name was "Cynthia Oquendo", and to my surprise, it turns out she was a friend of about 8 of my FB friends. Turns out she was the victim featured in today's edition of Sun Star Cebu newspaper--it ...