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"Furthermore, seldom has the telling of history been better if unintentionally served by an American administration than this one, which provided so much raw material for present and future narrators."--"Jules Witcover, "Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew"


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I was at Ortigas Center yesterday after a pretty tiring day when I decided to drop by Booksale SM Megamall to buy a couple of books. I ended up buying the April issue of Entrepreneur magazine and The Famous Five: Five Go To Smuggler's Top:


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On the third day of my rare vacation leave from my nearly-24/7 reporter job, I decided to spend a great Sunday afternoon holed up in one of my favorite haunts, Booksale Megamall (what can I say, I'm a penny-pinching bookworm). Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a little girl, probably around aged 7 or 8, wearing a dark blue dress, sandals, ( Read more... )

One of my favorite part parts in Jurassic Park (the book) is when Robert Muldoon, the park's game warden, attempts to contain the cunning velociraptors following the unbelievable shutdown of the park's power system, setting all the dinosaurs loose.

The raptors, after all, happen to be the perfect killing machines in the story. You wouldn't want to ( Read more... )

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"I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."

"Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the bones."

"You like doing this? I don't simple mean me, I mean the thing in itself?"

"I adore it."

So goes Julia and Winston's exchange during their first secret rendezvous in ( Read more... )

('Cause I just feel like doing word vomit--perhaps fueled by this Cobra Rhum mix--and I just wanted to break my blog entry into two. Haha)

I ordered my meal and parked my butt out front in the terrace, with the intention of finishing my required book for CW 141 entitled The Kobayashi Maru of Love (I have no idea what that means) by Carljoe Javier. ( Read more... )

The most benta political quote of 2009: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29743567/

"He deserves my silence." George W. Bush to President Barack Obama, 17 March 2009

This I keep in mind as I start the second day of 2010 chugging down a 1.5 PET bottle of Coke Light. The booze disappeared quickly in the evening.

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Surprise surprise. I was bumming around, browsing stuff at Powerbooks Greenbelt. I just came from a lunch at my aunt's at her condominium practically next door to Greenbelt when I bumped into classmate/orgmate/friend Jacques Jimeno, who was looking for a book for our Journalism class. It was a pleasant surprise, I must admit. After the ( Read more... )