Facebook as Time Machine

Facebook rocks! After an inordinate amount of time tweedling my thumbs, I finally took the plunge and got a Facebook account. Yes I’ve heard an earfull of merry odes and praises heaped on this social networking site but due to a variety of personal and semi-pathological reasons I’ve managed to – until a few days [...]

Hot, Hot, Hot

Want  to know what the weather will be like in the next few weeks? I don’t need  sophisticated satellite equipment to tell me that it’s going to be hot, hot, hot! I mean steam your siopao hot! Burn your soul to a crisp toast hot! Sweat profusely running to your jock-itch hot! Hot, hot, hot! [...]

Endangered Species

No this is not about upright public servants  even though you’re  hard pressed to come across one albeit you traverse the breadth, height and width of all the barangay halls and municipios  in the Philippines. What about in the esteemed and much revered alcoves and corners of the Philippine Senate or Congress?   Surely there [...]

Survivalist Nation

Holy Week is a big deal in the Philippines. It’s a time when we hold ourselves up to the light so we can see what’s going on in the murky regions and crannies of our mind-heart. Well…ok that’s the politically correct version of what we’re supposed to do during Holy Week. For most of us [...]

Pinoy travelers in London

Here’s a bit of touristic nonsense for you about our wanderings in old historic London. We actually went there for a purpose- to present a paper about our interfaith project in Mindanao to various faith-based funding agencies. But after that event, we had a bit of time to ourselves so we took off on foot [...]

Vinegar in the Eyes

Had a fight with the missus about the strangest thing. Editing the documentary keeps me in front of a computer for up to 12 hours a day. So no surprise that it  has taken its toll on my eyes. Don’t get me wrong, my dots an’ dyes still look fine but only if they’re on [...]

Field of Dreams

After a mighty long time, my wife and I went to SM North EDSA – one of the biggest malls east side of the world – to watch a proper movie. Not cable, not pirated movie on a tiny LCD monitor but a proper movie on a big theater with a humongous wide screen. Pinoys [...]