June 30, 2008

I can do everything, except...

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Something Like Life June 28, 2008 WOMEN have come a long way in defining the parameters of what being female, or being feminine, is all abou...
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June 29, 2008

Disillusioned

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CONTINUING my tirade about Asian Spirit , I really had high hopes for this airline, which in the past, had merely suffered from the lack of ...
June 28, 2008

More Bushwacking...and finally the video!

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Read Ninotchka Rosca on U.S. President's George W. Bush's "compliment" to Filipino-Americans. I suggest you also click o...
June 27, 2008

Feng shui and Sulpicio Lines

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CHINESE families in the Philippines continue, to this day, believe in geomancy or feng shui , to help them ensure luck and prosperity in the...
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Call for donations

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Received the following text message from my friend Jonathan Peñaloza , owner of Two Seasons Resort in Boracay: Hi Friends, We have a truck ...

How to forward mail properly

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MY old friend Gerry Kaimo sent this to our email group, it's about forwarding email properly. Pls. read (and forward hehe). This post i...
June 26, 2008

Inefficiencies in civil aviation regulations

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Whew! Airline insurer back FLAG carrier Asian Spirit is once more insured by Prudential Guarantee and Assurance Inc. , this after the airli...
June 25, 2008

And amid Typhoon Frank's devastation...

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...here's another trite exchange between U.S. President George Bush and our very own presidentita. (Paging hubby Jon Stewart! Let's ...
June 24, 2008

Asian Spirit flying without insurance

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(Photo from Boracay Budget Travel Tips ) Asian Spirit , the carrier of businessman/banker Alfredo Yao , is flying amid questions about its i...
June 23, 2008

A love story

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I FIRST saw Carlos out of the corner of my eye, meekly following his boss who had come to bring some goodies for me and my staff at the offi...
June 20, 2008

Road trips

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BACK in the ’70s as I was growing up, I remember taking a lot of road trips with my family. Despite the energy crunch then, we would still g...
June 19, 2008

Cyd Charisse, 86

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SHE'S dressed in a tight green Charleston strapless outfit her hair in a Chinadoll cut, a cigarette in a black thin holder dangling from...
June 18, 2008

Ilusyonada

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SCENE IN A RESTAURANT: Ms. Hoity Toity takes out her credit card and hands over to the waiter to pay for dinner with her ghelfrens in hotel ...

Speaking of idiots...

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"Ang aral po dito laging sinasabi hindi natin puwedeng i-exercise press freedom na malalagay ang [The lesson here is we can't exerc...

Ces and companions freed

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MANILA, Philippines--Kidnapped television reporter Ces Drilon , cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and Mindanao State University professor Octavio...
June 14, 2008

Change I believe in

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Obama's Statement on Philippine Independence Day Chicago, IL -- Senator Obama released the following statement today on Philippine Ind...

Another proudly Pinoy moment

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NEW Journey frontman Arnel Pineda interview with the band on CBS News Sunday Morning. Ang galing talaga ng Pinoy! Joshkopow! Mala- last son...

Why nuns have clear complexions

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Something Like Life June 13, 2008 (Sr. Mary Veritas – aka Rose Maipid – receives visitors, former journalism and PR colleagues on her birth...
June 12, 2008

Ladies, this is what happens inside your body

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PICKED this up from Chuvaness ...actual photos of a woman ovulating: "Shortly before the egg is released, enzymes break down the tissue...
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The news embargo

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WTF?!?! What is all this fuss about whether or not newspapers or news organizations should have respected the request of ABS-CBN News manag...
June 10, 2008

Pls. pray for Ces Drilon's safety

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COLLEAGUE and friend Ces Oreña Drilon is currently missing in Sulu along with her TV crew. May I ask for your prayers so they will come hom...
June 09, 2008

The cougar relationship

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(This is the unabridged version of my column, Something Like Life , published on June 6, 2008, in the BusinessMirror.) I WAS channel-surfing...
June 08, 2008

The beginning was great...

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...then it was downhill all the way. I am referring particularly to the valedictory speech of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this morning in W...
June 06, 2008

Pwede ba'ng mag-react?

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Foreign businessmen told 'behave or get out' of Philippines Agence France-Presse/PDI First Posted 17:45:00 06/06/2008 MANILA, Philip...

Yay for Obama! MAR and CHIZ in 2010

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WHEW! It took the Democratic Party a long time to decide this, but you must admire the political process in the U.S., despite the lengthy n...