The poor die poor.

Mang Pandoy is now dead.

The foremost symbol of poverty remained a symbol of poverty to the very end. He is so poor his family cannot even have him buried.

Route 28 – The First Long Ride

Just bought a road bike last Monday. The chain unfortunately broke that same night. Anyway, that made an excuse for me to buy a genuine Shimano chain. At least I have a Shimano part lurking in my bike, right?

Inhumane

Our government’s failure to integrate our unique Pinoy psyche in development programs is one reason why our country’s progress remains, as a whole, stunted. Trapped in a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society, coupled with a very pervasive system of client-patron relationships, our country will never be an industrialized country.

On a Roll!

Alisa’s on a roll!

In a span of a few weeks, she has established two new blogs for her (and for our friends) to enjoy — Thumbbook and Litrato at Iba Pa, both hosted at WordPress.com.

Do pay these blogs a click — you won’t regret it. Part of why I fell in love with Alisa in the first place was her quasi-humorous style of writing (quasi since it reads funny, but is actually serious). Gets?

Beware… of Wrong Spellings!

We Filipino, proud of our English heritage, do forget to remember basic spelling more often than not. Most of the time, we “play” it by the ear — I mean, how we use English. An innocent sign hanging along Emerald Avenue in Ortigas pushed this thought into my head.

Describe love.

I haven’t written about you for such a long time now. By now you should know why, or perhaps you have forgotten why.

I’ll reminisce, then. I remember you asking me why I haven’t written a poem for so long (except for the one I emailed to myself the other day). I simply answered you, “I have difficulty in describing indescribable happiness.”

Inutile.

This inutile regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have cut off themselves from reality. They have effectively numbed themselves from the real situation happening in the kitchen, in the living rooms, in the bedrooms of all Filipinos.

And now, this regime is offering loans to poor families, the loans coming from the VAT that has been mining billions of pesos from our shallow pockets.

The Electric Bill Paradox

This e-mail came in forwarded through my inbox. This should circulate not only among email addresses, but among Web addresses. The scandal over Juday’s endorsement of the ludicrous Meralco bill is just the tip of the iceberg.

Ain’t Creative

Featured in tonight’s TV Patrol (ABS-CBN Broadcasting Network’s flagship news program) is Rogue Magazine’s latest issue, featuring on its cover model Joey Mead in her birthday suit, albeit painted on with the Philippine flag.

Paypal Email Scam

Good thing I have junk mail controls set up in my Thunderbird email client. Just today, I checked out the three (3) mails in my Junk folder. I was curious enough to check the email with the subject “PayPal Email ID PP565.” I was thinking, is there something wrong with my PayPal account (besides from the zero balance I have)?