Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind, long years numberless as the wings of trees! The years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead in lofty halls beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice, holy and queenly. Who now […]
Firecrackers lasted fifteen minutes tonight, counting from the stroke of twelve. Happy new year everyone! *** Also, my first SPOX article for the year (Businessmirror, 1 January 2016) President Rizal On Twitter, I was asked: “@jabjimenez if Jose Rizal were to run for President, would you vote for him? Why or why not?” A well-known […]
The last time I was here was in 2005, and Taipei 101 was newly opened. Back then, I didn’t have the chance to visit the tower which I could only see – and take grainy pictures of – from a distance. This time around, I knew there was no way I would let the opportunity […]
They’ve got gizmos and gadgets a-plenty, they’ve got whozits and whatsits galore. You want a thing-a-mabob? They got twenty. You want selfie-sticks? They got a ridiculous number of those too. This is the reason why selfie-sticks, as much as you love to hate’em, are never going away: because apparently the demand is so high […]
It’s not often that I get the urge to write something, but when I do, I usually don’t have a suitable platform for it. Well, not anymore anyway. I’ve lost track of all the blogs I’ve started and abandoned over the years – and also of the number of times i’ve written exactly that – […]
It was the last day for the filing of Certificates of Candidacy for the 2016 National and Local Elections. The flow of filers had slowed to a trickle and the people managing the process – myself included – had too much time on our hands. Worse, there were blank COCs for Senator. So I did […]
Once in while, a song cover really gets the fanboy in me going. And this is one of those times. It’s Prince, for chrissakes. Covering Radiohead’s Creep. And the best part is, it was his Purple Majesty himself who pointed everyone to it. https://twitter.com/Prince3EG/status/673934021655576576 Considering his previous rejection of the internet as a music-sharing […]
I know there are a lot of people who use phones as a kind of fashion accessory. It completes the look, ika nga. For me though, phones are tools of the trade, and as much as I love my phones, I really don’t treat them gingerly. That was fine back in the day when phones […]
It’s probably easier to just use Tumblr. But I like setting up blogs. So sue me.
While most of the world’s 7 billion people weren’t looking, the co-authors of the book Atheist Heart, Humanist Mind, went ahead and presented a set of “Ten New Commandments” that was assembled by 13 judges, out of 2,800 submissions, coming from 18 countries and 27 States in the United States of America. You can almost […]