2008 November | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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red day

Three important facts I learned recently.You can have yourself tested for HIV the painless way, through a mouth swab, which means no more needle to draw out blood from your arm. The result can be known in two hours.If you tested positive for HIV, ...

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3rd rock from hell

I'm back in the Third World alright, where telecommunication companies insist that customers pay the full cost of monthly WiFi subscription when, in fact, they're non-operational half of the time; where the idea of quality customer service of department stores like Victoria Plaza in Davao City is to ignore shoppers every ...

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home

I'm back in the Philippines, enduring last song syndrome - The Little Drummer Boy, bossa nova style - inflicted by the neighbor's full blast radio. The song is so bad that wishing the singer stage 4 throat cancer for Christmas would be a blessing. Meanwhile I pray that the neighbor's two-month ...

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Bus rides to post-modern bukid

IT'S the season for bus rides for me again as the provinces gear up for the regional press conferences for elementary and high school writers.The other week, it was to be my first bus ride to Padada. Then last week it was in Nabunturan. This week in Tagum and then in Compostela. ...

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my pygmies!

more pygmy seahorses from a dive at dizon wall sometime in

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batch ‘81 again

corinne was in town and so batch 81 gathered anew and disturbed the quiet of firenzo for one whole night.

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What a rainy, gloomy day

such a rainy, gloomy day out here in davao.