on the early hours of this day exactly a year ago, i slipped and broke my lateral malleolus in two places, an unfortunate incident that resulted in my right foot being wrapped in a cast for 4 weeks, and my mobility aided only by a pair of crutches. during that month of incarceration, i missed out on many things: a few climbs, some parties, the holy ( Read more... )

the more i think about it, the more i am convinced that i managed to escape, if not thwart, or at least delay, a bus robbery the other night. i boarded a bus near my building, and planned to disembark near the LRT buendia station along taft. it was already late at night, although the bus was curiously full. i managed to get a seat on the fifth or ( Read more... )

i don't know if the rich are privy to some unwritten and mysterious rule about human relations but there are many things i don't understand about the way they treat people with whom they trust their productivity, their safety and well-being, and ultimately, their lives. i was enjoying a delicious piece of salmon taro puff at xin tian di which ( Read more... )

so i found this file in my drive. back in february, i answered a " 25 random things about me" survey when a friend tagged me in facebook. i recall thinking that the list was far too random. but then again, there was nothing extremely novel about the things i said about me. i've basically given a summary of things that i've frequently said on the ( Read more... )

updates to the blog have been spotty since the onslaught of the holidays. yes, i just described the arrival of christmas like the coming of a war, because it has been intense, particularly for me, juggling year-end deadlines at work and attending to one get-together after another. i am not complaining for either, actually. it affirms at least the ( Read more... )

my friend honesto franz maximillian nuqui who was the valedictorian of batch 1997 of UP diliman (he was one of 7 summa cum laudes from my batch) tagged me over on facebook in his 25 random things survey. the instructions are to write 25 random things about yourself, then tag 25 of your friends to do the same, including the person who tagged you. i ( Read more... )

random rumination 2 - my well-beingi went to have a neuro exam yesterday, which took the better part of the day, thus preventing me from going to work. i'd gone to 3 prior hospitals before i ended up at the MAB of st. luke's. visiting all these 3 hospitals could have induced what the doctor warned me about. like i've said before, i fell during the ( Read more... )

random rumination number 1 - mountain logi found out from someone else's blog that AMCI's head sweeper bajay has logged 177 climbs in 37 distinct mountains since 1993. i began to take up the sport of mountaineering 10 years after he did, between january and february of 2003, in an expedition which he led, to mt. pulag, through its "executive trail ( Read more... )

in 30 days, on the 30th of august, i'll be 30 ( Read more... )