Another day, another explosion. Welcome to the Philippines ( Read more... )

I saw this picture today.


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There were three reasons why I was looking forward to this trip:

1. Hanging out with  the apc peeps and friends.
2. Gorging on books at Kinokuniya.
3. Going home after my last trip for the year.

The last reason has had me sleeping with a smile on my face. Seeing the kitty cats again, hanging out with the Weirdoks, being there for PM's Xmas Surprise, spending ( Read more... )

Storm Signal #3 in Metro Manila today ( Read more... )

So back from the sewer that was my stomach since Monday evening. Correction: Sewer in a sweltering summer's day in Manila ( Read more... )

Give me one freaking moment to whine, please ( Read more... )

I'm drowning in IPR regimes, debates, concepts, epistemologies, theories, philiosophies. Two days ago, I was basking in all of that. Today, I'm drowning. And daunted ( Read more... )

The way I'm feeling right now, I can work up intense irritation at just about anything ( Read more... )

The thing about the heat is that it brings out my rashes, which irritates the shit out of me, which makes me wish that human beings were robots because illogical human behaviour annoys the hell out me -- especially when my rashes are acting up because of the heat ( Read more... )

I need to break today's stupor -- a completely natural and logical after-effect of lastnight's  / early this morning's Weirdok Get Together (to celebrate slapandpop's birthday, gurlygurlracer's freedom from work and fairlycloudy's "Yay, it's not cancer" moment). Because there was so much to celebrate, the conversation went on til about 3:30 am (+ about 15 minutes of goodbyes and ( Read more... )