Enter a search for the word Trillanes in Google and you’ll come up with around 200,000 results. Isn’t it just great how some people do the stupidest things? Amidst the chaos that happened, I wondered about one thing only.
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From ALvs
In that gray place between half-sleep, half-waking, I heard ABS-CBN’s The Correspondent doing a documentary about Mariannet Amper’s controversial and alleged suicide. There must be something in that state of mind (half sleepiness, I mean) that makes you retain certain information. I haven’t stopped thinking about her since.
Oddly, I felt like the way I felt when I was reading Jeffrey Eugenide’s The Virgin Suicides.
Mariannet somehow reminded me of Cecilia, the youngest of the Lisbon sisters and the first of the girls to commit suicide. When Cecilia was rushed into a hospital after her first suicide attempt, a doctor asked her “What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets. ” and Cecilia replied “Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl”.
Apparently, her family’s poverty drove the 11-year-old girl to wrap a swathe of nylon rope around her neck and to exit […]
From camz
Just as I have said, wait for the posts soon. For the meantime, go to this site: http://pseudopedantryandmentaldiarrhea.blogspot.com/
From Anne
As of this moment, I still couldn’t figure out the exact design that I want for this blog. I really hate it that I could not work on this blog… well, actually, I could not blog in general due to time constraints.
Sheesh.
From Anne
The heat of the sun will mean nothing once you see these modern warriors parading the streets of Iloilo.
Aside from the famous Ati-atihan festival every January, Western Visayas also boasts of its Dinagyang Festival– a weeklong celebration of merriment to honor the Black Sto. Niño.
Rooted in the arrival of the image of Sto. Niño from Cebu City (brought by Fr. Suplico Ebness, OSA to Iloilo), Dinagyang Festival has become a yealry celebration since 1968.
Warriors Dressed In Colorful Headdresses
Tribes march their way to the last judging area
Practicing at the Plaza
Still Practicing the Night before
Posing for the Camera after the Performance
From pj
Your Japanese Name Is…
Ronin Yoshida
What’s your Japanese Name?
Wish I could really use chopsticks.
From ronan
In our own native tongue kasi mas malutong, ANG BOBO EH.
From ALvs
Recently, Instant Kupy was featured @ Technogra.ph - a young and an upcoming blog site about the local tech scene. (You can view the feature here). Mr. Rico Mossesgeld, a very well-known personality in the blogging world, is the owner of Technogra.ph. This blog of his covers the Philippine tech scene, featuring commentary, news, reviews, event coverage, and other related developments. Yeah, that line I just said was directly copied from Technogra.ph’s About page. Sorry dude, I’m not creative enough to give you a mouth-watering intro. Hopefully this one does the job.
Anyway, as a token of appreciation for the special interview he conducted against my will (just kiddin’), I also ‘interrogated’ Mr. Mossesgeld about his new blog site (he has TONS of blog sites btw). Here’s the full excerpt: (more…)
From ronan
Hey, my name is Camz. Welcome to the loo.
A friend got me started blogging way back in 2003, and that blog I kept for almost 4 years. It saw me through sucky professors, suckier boyfriends, and practically my whole college life is tabulated in that little space–a big reason why I stayed there for so long, even after seeing better and nicer blog platforms. I’m a pack rat, even online, you see.
I no longer blog there, and I’ve since moved to a better, but temporary blog, until I got this. Many thanks to a generous officemate, who let me host this domain for free. This was never meant to be anything else other than a personal blog, so what you see at my old ones? It’s basically the same crap that I will put up here Except, perhaps, told in a hopefully classier way.
We all need to grow sometimes. […]
From camz
Father John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy…
Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked. He was combing his long flaxen hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders. It was the first time I had ever seen a boy with hair that long. I guess it was just coming into fashion then. I know in my mind that it isn’t what’s on your head but what’s in it that counts; but on that day I was unprepared and my emotions flipped. I immediately filed Tommy under “S” for strange…very strange.
Tommy turned out to be the “atheist in residence” in my Theology of Faith course. He […]
From ronan