While reading Stanley Karnow's In Our Image one summer vacation many years ago, I learned (among other things) that Cory Aquino chose the color yellow as her campaign color back in 1985 because of the old song "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree."

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I was preparing to go to bed at shortly after midnight when practically all my classmates started posting on Facebook that Monday classes had been called off because of the snowstorm. (I guess they couldn't wait to share the good news, LOL.) It's my first snow day ever and the first time in a long time that...

1. I have not had classes because of ( Read more... )

The rest of my Association Meme answers :D

Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

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Holy crap, Manny Pacquiao beat Oscar De La Hoya last night.

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I don't know if you'll be interested to know that there is now a full-length animated film inspired by Princess Urduja :)

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I'm fine. Thank you very much for the concerned prodding ( Read more... )

As expected, I did not get much rest over the long weekend and have been in meetings these past two days so I still feel like I want to crash, but otherwise I'm OK.

I'm very glad to say that this weekend was not as bad as I had feared:

• The craziness in Makati fizzled out early (and it was actually quite laughable - *gives Trillanes a virtual ( Read more... )

There's some weird shit going down again in Makati.

(I swear, these destabilizers really do time these things to happen just when the economy's looking up. Thanks a lot for not helping solve the problem, especially for the poorest of the poor, @$$holes.)Anyway, the weird shit is nowhere near where I am and things have not become violent yet, ( Read more... )

I forgot to post that an earthquake rocked Luzon yesterday afternoon, and I was on the 32nd floor (in the condo) when it happened o_O ( Read more... )

Vacations are nice - it's the getting back to the real world that's the problem!
So, I'm back from Palawan and I had a pretty good time. As we did when we went to Bohol, we stayed in the city (Puerto Princesa, the provincial capital) and took day trips to wherever. It was more difficult this time around, though, because the Palawan is much bigger ( Read more... )