2008 October | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 5
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the flight of the gurnard

finally, i chanced on a flying gurnard before it fled. it was peewee who saw it and was already taking a video of it as i was still descending. it was a big one, and was pretty swift. i didn't have time to tinker with my camera and just clicked away. wasn't ...

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fish-kulit part 2

that someone with the yellow beamed flashlight turned out to be maeng who called my attention to a critter by one of the rocks. i was trying to get a photo of the critter, but fish-kulit turned up to play with our lights instead. see how maeng patted him to scare him ...

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fish-kulit part 1

this puffer was enjoying the light from my flashlight in our dive at babusanta last night, and so he was there as my escort for quite some time... until someone else arrived with his flashlight and scared my escort away. or so i

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a cunning man

Dear Kawadjan~How's Bangkok? I've been meaning to write you earlier but the internet provider shut down our connection because someone in the house was downloading a copyrighted movie. It was not even porn, girl. Monty Python. I know. Stop laughing. ...

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bruce the vegan chef

Bruce has been deprived of sleep these days. He is not eating, either. The only sustenance he gets is from the cherry, olive or slice of lemon in his drinks. He has been guzzling martinis, like Karen in the hit sitcom Will and Grace. This morning Bruce asked ...

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In Bukidnon, medicine supply woes traced to price

The lack of medicines in Bukidnon provincial hospitals and health stations has been blamed on failures in the bidding process, more specifically to the Capitol’s low approved budget for contract (ABC) or price index. It was reportedly pegged at 2004 rates, a provincial legislative inquiry has discovered. This seems a simple problem of public ...

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‘L’ wave

The Deparment of Health, despite the overwhelming evidence in the blogosphere, refuses to confirm that there is an outbreak. As of press time, another one is down with the L-virus. Could it be worse than JM's case?The story follows Bruce, an in-demand writer and vegan ...