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i saw "superman returns" last friday at the power plant. kuya mar called me up and said he had extra tickets to a screening sponsored by deutsche bank for their clients. although the movie was scheduled to start at 9, cocktails were being served at mati. so i braved horrendous friday traffic and showed up at power plant. i asked for directions and ( Read more... )

i saw the movie "poseidon" with kuya mar last night at glorietta, and i felt the producers sunk $160 million with the action flick. it was pretty bland, and it ended, really, when the road wave smashed into the luxury liner. i felt the movie failed to capture humanity in the face of disaster, and its dramatic moments (when elena died and when chris ( Read more... )

it sounded like arlene's racket smashed into a wall, making a loud, wooden "thok". but to him, it felt as if someone had kicked his ankle. i was playing with him at the time, against the tandem of james and dennis when it happened. the yellow bird from the other court landed on ours, and at about the same time, arlene was approaching the net to ( Read more... )

tonight i leave for what will most likely be my last multi-day climb for the year. as i transition from government to private, i might as well bid farewell to the lackadaisical life that i’ve enjoyed this past year. i’m still not totally sold on the idea, really, of moving to B&M. there’s still that chance -- and not a slim chance (a fat chance, ( Read more... )

saturday, i woke to find myself, shirtless, plastered on the cold, tiled floor, armed with vague, unclear and incomplete recollections of what took place before i passed out a few hours after midnight, and asking no one in particular: “ano’ng ginagawa ko dito?” i had spit on my chest and red stuff -- which i later learned was chili sauce -- on my ( Read more... )