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Dispensing indiscriminate advice
In: Life
11 Jan 2010
People just love to give unsolicited advice. They’re annoying as they are but one thing that I really don’t like with people who do so is how many of them lead with “Tingnan mo ako…” (better translated as “Compare [...]
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- Tags: Advice, Life, People, Society
No strike-outs
In: Life
31 Dec 2009That’s it folks. Just a few hours from now, 2010. And what a year this 2009 was. To sum it all up for me, it sucked. Had to go through quite a lot of curve balls for the past year.
But there’s no use in pining over how shitty it is. Not tonight. Shouldn’t greet [...]
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- Tags: 2009, 2010, Life
Christmas complacency
In: Life
26 Dec 2009Filipinos are not traditional. We’re complacent. Every year, we subject to ourselves to the dreary rituals no matter how adulterated these traditions have become.
People would consider doing “the same thing” every year during that long stretch of 100 Days before Christmas up until Epiphany (Three Kings to all other Catholics not institutionalized by Catholic private [...]
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- Tags: Christmas, Holiday, Philippines, Society
Stupid is what stupid does
In: Life
4 Aug 2009Life and business guru Francis Kong has this piece entitled Stuck on Stupid in the Philippine Star. Quite an insightful piece. Met Mr. Kong in a symposium once and you have to admire the simplicity of his words. Nothing fancy but they hit the semantic nail on the head almost every time.
Here are some [...]
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- Tags: Francis Kong, Stuck on Stupid, Stupid
A decade after Wear Sunscreen
In: Life
17 May 2009I can’t believe this a decade old. A message I appreciated in my juvenile high school years. Something really worth re-examining 10 years later while in a quarter-life crisis.
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