It ' s actually 4th Place - and if you haven ' t joined any debate event yet (specially the 18th Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship), then you wouldn ' t know the real weight that this title has within itself... We (MSU-IIT) made history last October 10-12 at Butuan City... no, seriously, I don ' t think I deserve to be in the finals) participants wearing a formal attire that isn ' t even mine (borrowed individual pieces of clothing from people with a good heart -- and clothes to spare)... … View Post »

Nobody likes fake people... And although I am one, having a friend who also happens to be one is not exactly what I would call a great tandem... Birds of the same feather flock together, they say... … View Post »

maybe I was just overstating the value of karaoke machines but videokes are what Filipino people should be proud of... How many people except us can actually sing and roll their blues away the way we do???... I know none (and this is not just the biased regionalistic behavior in me talking!)... Filipinos have a gift of unusual nonchalance that could easily turn into a curse of apathy lest we do not make an effort not to carry this gift overboard... … View Post »

maybe I was just overstating the value of karaoke machines but videokes are what Filipino people should be proud of... How many people except us can actually sing and roll their blues away the way we do???... I know none (and this is not just the biased regionalistic behavior in me talking!)... Filipinos have a gift of unusual nonchalance that could easily turn into a curse of apathy lest we do not make an effort not to carry this gift overboard... … View Post »

That ' s the day before my mom ' s birthday... I can ' t even pretend to actually MEAN the gesture... Because in the status of camaraderie, being ingenuine is an understandable trait... After their defense, they ' re bound to graduate and move on to their job-seeking and hopefully-professional lives... The thought that I wont be with people like them (whom I ' ve become so accustomed to be with for the past 3 to 4 years) come lunchtime or whenever I have time to slack around or chill out... … View Post »

That ' s the day before my mom ' s birthday... I can ' t even pretend to actually MEAN the gesture... Because in the status of camaraderie, being ingenuine is an understandable trait... After their defense, they ' re bound to graduate and move on to their job-seeking and hopefully-professional lives... The thought that I wont be with people like them (whom I ' ve become so accustomed to be with for the past 3 to 4 years) come lunchtime or whenever I have time to slack around or chill out... … View Post »

Below is a poem by John Keats entitled "Ode to a Nightingale" (not that we have nightingales here in the Philippines...but... This poem is currently among my many favorites not only because I strained my brain cells beyond my deduction skill ' s limit just so I could understand what the whole poem (the whole length and complexity of it) actually means... It ' s now among my line of favorite poems since it fits my current mood... This poem best describes the state which I am in at the moment... I can ' t thank John Keats enough for writing this truly amazing piece of poetry... that hath been Coold a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!... Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow... Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!... … View Post »

Extreme Style by VO5 is a hair product that does wonders to your hair... It is considered to be a prerequisite towards a successful date... And good impressions are greatly affected by the way you look... And most of the time, the way you look is defined by your crowning glory: your hair... You get to be given a character and you get to style that character to add the element of "you" in it... this case, getting the Victory Hair ... If I were to date, what I ' d do to attain my very own Victory Hair is to make myself look presentable (hygiene always has to be in proper check lest in turns off my date and has her running off with a covered nose)... "We enter into the iron gates of life", as what Andrew Marvell said in his poem To His Coy Mistress ... … View Post »

Extreme Style by VO5 is a hair product that does wonders to your hair... It is considered to be a prerequisite towards a successful date... And good impressions are greatly affected by the way you look... And most of the time, the way you look is defined by your crowning glory: your hair... You get to be given a character and you get to style that character to add the element of "you" in it... this case, getting the Victory Hair ... If I were to date, what I ' d do to attain my very own Victory Hair is to make myself look presentable (hygiene always has to be in proper check lest in turns off my date and has her running off with a covered nose)... "We enter into the iron gates of life", as what Andrew Marvell said in his poem To His Coy Mistress ... … View Post »