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Posts Tagged ‘Life’
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
Stepover nutmeg
15 Sep 2006When I was still active playing football, I really loved using stepover nutmegs to get past defender. That and rocastles. In any case, nutmegs usually provide the most effective results. Either I succeed in fake them or they miss tackles and clip me instead. Free kicks for us.
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- Tags: Football, Life, Soccer, Sports
Descartes over anything else
In: Life
12 Sep 2006I work as a marketing man for my company, an IT company at that.
When I go about rounds with colleagues visiting clients, I usually get the usual questions “How old are you?”, “Where did you graduate? (sic)“, and the classic question, “So, ComSci ka, hijo?”. Those questions are strung in a such a fashion due [...]
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- Tags: Life
Communism, democracy and red herrings
In: Life| Politics and Society
24 Aug 2006For centuries Marx might have been rolling in his grave.
There have been so many brilliant ideas by brilliant men. Social theories seem so perfect. The flaw remains that there is no allowance for the human factor.
So much for philosopher kings, social contracts and libertarianisms.
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- Tags: Communism, Democracy, Life, Opinion, Politics and Society
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