Happy Birthday to Me!!


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This morning I got up and had paella rice and rum cake for breakfast. It has continued to be an exceptional string of hours. But about the last few days...

Just last night I was on a RORO, being tossed around mercilessly by the shark-infested waters of Batangas. Just before that, I was in a cramped van that had on its roof several sacks of tomatoes ( Read more... )

Banco de Oro is the most inefficient, and shady bank in the world.

I am glad to enumerate the reasons why:

• They do not find you solutions. They are the most un-customer-oriented bank in the world. In the middle of a crisis they will tell you that their internal convoluted Nazi policies cannot allow you to use your money as you please.
• They find ways ( Read more... )

After years of being maligned as a useless exploding small organ, the appendix is actually found to have a function in healthy digestion: producing good bacteria for our gut, according to an article on CNN.

Apparently, it "acts like a bacteria factory, cultivating good germs", says a Duke surgery professor.

Rumors of the organ being superfluous ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we picked some handsome large logs up off the street.

Then we decided to check out the Spanish Film Festival in Greenbelt, with movies for Php65 a pop. So the ticket stubs had the usual Timezone promo-- we looked for shooting game Time Crisis, to no avail, so we decided to have dinner. The tickets, magically, also contained some "Free ( Read more... )

The chickens have no names yet. It's very exciting. It's like having babies in the house-- except, we've never had one in the house so I really can't say, and they're not babies, and they're not exactly in our house. But, it's terribly exciting.

They like to lie on the ground when it's sunny. Sometimes one drapes its neck over the other's. It's ( Read more... )

First of all, what the fuck is up with the weather, huh? It's been pouring the past few days. Evenings and mornings have been insanely cold. My plants, who might have previously been dancing joyfully at the rain with their slow, 1-millimeter-a-day movement kind of dance, are now waterlogged. Serioso, let up already! I'm so white and I need a tan. ( Read more... )

This article is from Adobo Magazine. It's about my cousin Martin. Yeah, he's bananas!

Paris Match: Director Martin Arnaldo megs Penelope Cruz

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Recently Rob and I were lazing around and discussing what we think are the biggest problems these days, just mapping our way to benevolent world domination.

So "cheap plastic" is a major one, especially here, where they pepper the cities and households and shores like some weird disease. Kadiri! They are everywhere, because they are practically free ( Read more... )

(Actually, I'm using OpenOffice Calc, not Excel, cause it's way better ( Read more... )