2008 November | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 3
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the shoe fairy cometh

I talked too soon. The shoe-crazy people yesterday might have sensed my snobitude, they put a hex on me because this morning, when I did my museum hopping at Guggenheim and the Met, all I could think of was shoes. Sapatos. Talumpa. Chaussures. Even at the British Prints 1914 - 1939 exhibition, ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Laidback excitement

IT was not the best night to go out. It was raining, very hard, Friday night, but I have already pushed my night out to the last night, we just had to brave the rain.Deng was coming from her television station, I was coming from flooded R. ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Can.teen

IT'S that time of the week again, and with no idea where to go to, I decided to visit this old place that has undergone a lot of refurbishings since it was nothing but a tarpaulin-roofed structure when it had to pack up and leave the Petron station's "customer ...

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i lerve new york!

Seven blocks from where I'm staying, gunshots and mayhem erupted in the lobby of the posh Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Welcome to New York City -the center of the known universe!The mayhem began when the 20-year-old suspect, wearing a black track suit, pulled out a gun in the jewelry store and used ...

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the fog

On my third day in Washington DC the rain did stop but it was damp and a thick veil of fog enveloped the capital. I wanted to see a glimpse of the White House but my attention got distracted by a motorcade of foreign heads of state who were in town ...

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Even fear is a gift

WE have often been told: Count your blessings. And so we try. But, mortals that we are, we do forget more often than we remember and only see the bad turns, ruing our Creator and wallowing in self-pity. And only when everything has really turned for the worse that we remember our ...

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the raj meows

He has been lethargic and vomiting and pooping wet lately. This morning he was taken to the vet hospital, an IV tube inserted in his orange-fur coated leg, for what vets called 'an observation.'I'm sorry I haven't been home for the past three months ...