2008 June | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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In a state of ‘d-uh?’

HAVING been drenched by the downpour the week before, forced to stay longer in the office to wait for the tons of water to peter down, and landing right onto a mudpool upon disembarking from a taxi, it was a relief to spend a few days without the threat of a rainfall, ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Gourmet

IT was going to be fine dining for me Monday night upon the invitation of Imee Garcia, who has recently volunteered to be a willing food trip victim (if I happen to catch her). And what we're going to try are the new fare offered ...

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Love and Compassion

     It seems to me that it is a great deficiency of our language that the same word is used to describe the way we feel about our spouse, our children, our siblings, our dog, chocolate ice-cream, and the reason why we give to charity. One word, love, is commonly used in ...

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Theft at a village in darkness

At a quarter before 10p.m., the Zone 1 neighborhood in Kalasungay, a hillside village in suburban Malaybalay City was like poetry in slow motion. The distant barking of the dogs joined the symphony of the evening choir of insects and the rhythmic touch of the wind to the leaves of the Marang. There ...

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sir salman

One of my favorite writers, Salman Rushdie, has just been knighted by Queen Elizabeth of England. He is best known for his controversial novel, Satanic Verses, which was deemed blasphemous by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini (and later, other religious authorities across the Islamic world) who ...

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Love in the time of insurgency

That Bukidnon is a peaceful province is now a myth. One cannot play blind to the kind of stories we hear from both the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the New Peoples Army about gaining strength against each other. Both camps, even with disproportionate advantages, have brought the battlefield from the mountains to ...

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Just believe

ONE more year over, and thus there was some time to ponder on my life so far. And I say, my life has been cool, really cool. It was a lifelong lesson of acceptance, of welcoming all those you bump into because these people were sent over to bump into you for ...