yesterday was yet the most ordinary birthday i ever had. except for the greetings i got, everything was routinary - i slept late the day before (sunday dawn actually; as usual i sleep at dawn), woke up late, checked my email and social networking accounts, read the paper and wrote some stuff ( Read more... )

woke up to a strange dream today. probably caused by the two full servings of chicken rice i had before i slept. i finally cooked rice in chicken broth, so might as well help my self, hehe ( Read more... )

it's good to know "one tree hill" is back with a new season. i think it's high time. watching re-runs of almost every show on cable is already boring. ali said though that she already watched it on video; she said the season actually ended last may ( Read more... )

pdi's news section today is a very interesting read. not necessarily because of the headlines on the frontpage, but because of some news and opinion items which presents an issue (both socio-political and media-wise) that has been seemingly obscured by our characteristic uh.. 'social activism', albeit double standard ( Read more... )

was watching anc's "top story" earlier, while waiting for "the simpson's" rerun on star world. pretty much watched through the whole program and found press secretary jesus dureza's quip on pia hontiveros' reporting (or, as she said, the editors' news writing) being negatively slanted as something really called for. heck, even i missed that spin ( Read more... )

around this time last week, i was walking lost in raffles. i passed the turn from orchard to our hotel. i bought two glasses of watermelon juice as i was looking for my way back and bought a liter of peach tea drink in an indian convenience store when i finally recognized the road home ( Read more... )

sigh. i still miss the whole singapore experience. benjamin, a friend i met during icophil, told me that i would appreciate my being filipino more when i'm abroad. but he was wrong. or my case is simply an exception to the rule ( Read more... )

i'm back home now and i'm really down that my singapore experience had to end fast. i met a lot of interesting people and made good friends there and i really enjoyed my stay ( Read more... )

i literally walked through orchard road. went to almost all the malls along the way. saw a lot of good chinese stuff to buy and ubiquituous filipinos. it's also amusing to know that there are pinoy pubhouses and carenderias in some malls, hehe ( Read more... )

i'm in singapore right now and luckily, our hotel provides free internet (and units). god, the view's really, really good! i wish i did plan to have some days off as vacation and brought more pocket money with me, sigh.. i hope i can go back sometime to really enjoy a tour.