wayback snippet: tread reader

I was about ten years old then, I think, and it was a good day for walking to school.

I didn’t say my school was far or that I always take a ride to go to my elementary classes. In fact, my school was only about five blocks away from my house, and that it was so convenient that I loved walking to school.

To see the sights, maybe. See, when I was a kid, I was already my own digital camera. I was a still camera plus a video camera, with an MP3 player attachment.

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Photos: Makati day grand parade

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A horse from Laoag

Dinagyang, Iloilo dancers

Higantes from Angono, Rizal, kiss

Dancers from Binmaley town, Pangasinan province

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undeserved hype

Book review: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Granted. Dan Brown’s runaway 2003 bestseller “The Da Vinci Code,” a novel part thriller/religion exposition, is truly “pulse-quickening” (People magazine review) and “breathtaking” (The Boston Globe review). I agree that it is unputdownable, and that it is a good page-turner.

Yet when it is hardly “one of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read,” as said by one of Brown’s countless fans in his self-promoting website. Thousands have been said about the book being poorly researched and how it fails as a historical novel, but not much has been said about it being poorly written.

life as tidbits

subhead: for easy reading

So yesterday, I started my third beat. From Senate/DFA, to Malacañang, I get transferred to Justice. An injustice, I say. I hate don’t like the beat at all. Not that I don’t know anything about law (okay, maybe that too) but because the press office there is so dirty and so crowded, and not too mention that almost all (except my trainor) the reporters assigned there are too kingly. One female reporter from a tabloid even called her trainee “stupid”. Well if they (especially that reporter, I repeat, from a TABLOID) doesn’t know, trainees are human too. And because we’re fresher, and less experienced, we get more sensitive to comments.

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So I missed Mass last Monday, yesterday, and still, today. I’m too sorry for that. I wish I have the schedules and addresses of all the churches in Metro Manila so I can go to Mass while nothing’s happening at work.

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Is it my fault I miss Mass? I’m not sure. There is no Church in my subdivision high up in the mountains of Montalban, Rizal, so if I want to go to Mass in the morning I’d have to wake up about two and a half hours earlier than 6AM Masses so I could go (one hour preparation/morning norms, and one and a half hour travel to Quezon City). Which means, I’d have to wake up at 3:30/4AM. This is not good for my health, I’d guess, owing that since I work in Metro Manila I reach home at night at about 9PM, and I sleep at 11. Which means a rough three to four hours of sleep.

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I also came to thinking, whether my family, or the Mass, id more important than the other. If I go to Mass I’ll miss the family breakfast, which means I’m missing during the family gathering.

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So I’m still thinking and praying if I really need Masses, or if there are late night ones I could go to.

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Conversations with Him:

Me: Please, if You love me, at least send me signs so I won’t go astray and think otherwise…
Him: I do send you signs… You’re just ignoring them.
Me: Oh…

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Songs UP next

As per the request of my friend Vienna, I will post here the recent songs that say UP without fear and apprehension: the UP centennial song (UP Ang Galing Mo*), the catchy UPLB pop tune (Isang Daan) and a truly revitalized and utterly engaging reimagination of the UP theme song (UP Namin Mahal) from Lean a Filipino Musical.
She said she went looking for them last night in multiply, but since the site already prohibited song sharing, she failed to download them.
Jump over to my Keep and Share account (you have to create your own account) to download them. Don’t forget to greet me if you get them, or you’ll be hit by a bus while being stabbed by a steak knife in a manhole you fell into on the way home. *evil laughter* In short, you’ll die.
Here they are, folks. Enjoy the glory.

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*Get ready to cringe. UP Ang galing mo is totally off-tangent (of UP’s real mission) and sounds so arrogant that I think it’s worth saying you’re not from UP when you hear this song in public. Warning: it’s totally catchy, and you’ll hum it again and again, but you’ll wish you haven’t heard it.