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by this year's end, i would have attended a minimum of 4 weddings. in 2005 and 2007, there was a slew of weddings where many of my friends knelt before the altar to pledge a lifetime of love and commitment. i have written about many of those weddings on this blog, and it may be telling of just how nasty i can be because i almost always have ( Read more... )

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my failure to report anything these past few days belies the fact that many significant things have taken place in my life in the span of just a few weeks. the flurry of events have taken on the character of a bushfire, wild, spreading in all directions, and changing the texture of everything that lay in its path ( Read more... )

i probably had an average of 4 hours of sleep per day the entire week that i was attending MCLE because of the flurry of activities. quite surprisingly, although i was really really very sleepy during the lectures, i was wide awake, thanks in large part to the free wi-fi which allowed me to download about 400 songs in 4 days. and of course, to the ( Read more... )

my older brother sonny married his girlfriend of six years, jill last saturday in what i think was a very down-to-earth, but nevertheless traditional, ceremony at the wack-wack golf & country club in mandaluyong city. my mom and my aunts and jill's mom and sister cried buckets of tears, and i was just cool about everything while most everyone were ( Read more... )

the previous weekend, i hied off to caleruega for the wedding of benjie and guada. it was a no frills, non fuzzy wedding which did away with many of the usual customs new couples think they ought to do for their union to be blessed, or for the occasion to be more memorable. it went rather smoothly, i think, and the officiating priest was a little ( Read more... )

so many friends getting married. which shouldn’t surprise anyone because my generation’s knocking on 30. yesterday night, i was lightly scrubbing the padded shoulders of my suit with a moist hanky. dust had gathered, and i hadn’t managed to send it to the dry cleaner. i had worn this only once before: a day after i passed the bar! but not to ( Read more... )

earlier this evening, i shared the kitchen sink with my eldest brother, who’s in town for the holidays. he was focused on cleaning a whole bunch of feeding bottles. about a week ago, he and his family sailed in from roxas city where he works as a medrep, and the house hasn’t been the same since. when i was a lot younger, there were many instances ( Read more... )