just being… | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 5
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Sense and sensibilities

THE schizophrenic me was prowling around this navy ship, being both selves and denying both. It was a difficult situation to be in.Rewind: The day before the memorial mass for the downed C-130 plane last Tuesday, my buddy and organization president Peewee asked me to be our volunteer diver's group representative in ...

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Yup. marami nga

carlos was frothing in the mouth in excitement when he finally saw the pygmy seahorse in this critter cove during our September 4 visit. now we can say it has everything -- nudis, eels, crabs, seahorses, octopi, and all. and i agree because these photos were taken in just one day in ...

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Goodbye Blue Sky

Another classic favorite from Pink Floyd's The

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Philosophizing

MY dive buddy and I love to philosophize for fun. It's just to poke fun on what's going on around us as we don the serious demeanor of intellectuals, those who love ivory towers and are serious about analyzing the essence of life. Thus when his fish finder sonar detected a big ...

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Brothers in Arms

The wonderful side of living during these high-tech times is getting your hands on your favorite MTVs even though it's from a lifetime ago. Here's a real classic: Dire Strait's "Brothers in Arms". Cool, meaningful, awesome,

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Peace, perception, and the ratings war

COMING from a place where you may not have heard anything about Mindanao except about war and strife, were you not worried that you were going on a tour at a time when Mindanao is supposed to be at war?" I asked a first-time visitor who arrived with his big group right ...

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Between gunbattles and a festival

KADAYAWAN week is always hectic, and it's not even a happy hectic. It's hair-pulling hectic, and has been like that since Kadayawan came to be... a lifetime ago.Thus, as the week crescendos to a close, I always harbor that wish to be the visitor and not the visited, if only to watch ...