Last night I learned - or remembered - that I could never fall asleep on a moving vehicle, especially if it's a strange one.
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8/29/2015
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Last night I learned - or remembered - that I could never fall asleep on a moving vehicle, especially if it's a strange one.
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8/21/2015
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I'm not a cat person.
I say this not because I hate cats, but because I was not really surrounded by them. One of my aunts took care of a bunch of cats throughout my childhood, but they have mostly died due to old age - one even came back to life, although not really, something like that.
At home we have dogs. Right now we have four: a Labrador who needs a lot of exercise, and three multi-hybrids. (It's a sad state of affairs that even the term askal fell victim to political correctness, or forced patriotism. Aspin just does not have the same ring to it.) In prior years we've had many dogs, all the as-whatever kind: they scampered around while I attempted to play basketball, and barked loudly as I came home, and just one day, you'll see them weaker than usual, and then, they're gone.
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I say this not because I hate cats, but because I was not really surrounded by them. One of my aunts took care of a bunch of cats throughout my childhood, but they have mostly died due to old age - one even came back to life, although not really, something like that.
At home we have dogs. Right now we have four: a Labrador who needs a lot of exercise, and three multi-hybrids. (It's a sad state of affairs that even the term askal fell victim to political correctness, or forced patriotism. Aspin just does not have the same ring to it.) In prior years we've had many dogs, all the as-whatever kind: they scampered around while I attempted to play basketball, and barked loudly as I came home, and just one day, you'll see them weaker than usual, and then, they're gone.
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8/18/2015
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This is for the kids of the scene.
This is for the kids who define themselves by which bands they listen to (or not listen to), and by which bands they have seen live, and where, if applicable.
This is for the kids who love the allure of the old, but not the old of their parents, or their grandparents, or anyone around them who's actually lived through it, but the old that they find themselves.
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This is for the kids who define themselves by which bands they listen to (or not listen to), and by which bands they have seen live, and where, if applicable.
This is for the kids who love the allure of the old, but not the old of their parents, or their grandparents, or anyone around them who's actually lived through it, but the old that they find themselves.
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8/06/2015
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For proof that the Noynoy Aquino administration has gotten politically cocky, look no further than the words its most prominent members have uttered in the past couple of weeks.
First up, the president himself, in his last State of the Nation Address. In a thinly-veiled attack on his vice president (and, yet unofficial, candidate for president next year) Jejomar Binay, who criticized his term for being insensitive and inept, he decided to get down with the kids. "Kapag sila raw ang naging pangulo, sigurado, gaganda ang buhay," Aquino said. "Para naman sa kabataan, iba na raw po ang tugon nila sa ganoong pahayag. Iba na daw po ang uso ngayon eh: 'eh di wow.'"
Binay would, a week later, deliver the opposition's response to the SONA, what he called the True State of the Nation Address. (Aquino wondered why it took them a week to respond, and suggested that it means the opposition is scrambling for something negative to pin upon his, in my words, pristine administration.) His speech, delivered at the Cavite State University to a crowd of supporters and students - whether the later attended voluntarily or otherwise will be a trivial point of political debate - drilled down on Aquino's supposed ineptness, through a disparate set of pronouncements from state school budgets to the quality of jobs available for the unemployed.
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First up, the president himself, in his last State of the Nation Address. In a thinly-veiled attack on his vice president (and, yet unofficial, candidate for president next year) Jejomar Binay, who criticized his term for being insensitive and inept, he decided to get down with the kids. "Kapag sila raw ang naging pangulo, sigurado, gaganda ang buhay," Aquino said. "Para naman sa kabataan, iba na raw po ang tugon nila sa ganoong pahayag. Iba na daw po ang uso ngayon eh: 'eh di wow.'"
Binay would, a week later, deliver the opposition's response to the SONA, what he called the True State of the Nation Address. (Aquino wondered why it took them a week to respond, and suggested that it means the opposition is scrambling for something negative to pin upon his, in my words, pristine administration.) His speech, delivered at the Cavite State University to a crowd of supporters and students - whether the later attended voluntarily or otherwise will be a trivial point of political debate - drilled down on Aquino's supposed ineptness, through a disparate set of pronouncements from state school budgets to the quality of jobs available for the unemployed.
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