just being… | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 7
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GOIN’ PLACES: Hic-bulaga!

I CHANCED on a blog link to its website and was intrigued. It's a coffeeshop in Davao that specializes in layered coffee. Must try... must try... I thought.I described the general vicinity to Trish and Deng even before we scheduled a trip. It's right beside the duo's ...

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Random thoughts while pulling a giraffe-colored trolley bag

AIRPORTS... these are busy places. A lot of people whiz by, catching their flights, and so, it's understandable if people zip past you a lot.But if you're already stuck in a tube, every one slowed down as the loose line is forced to straighten up to make its way to the very ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Another must-try

WE love finding new places that offer really good food and good service. But since we're doing these rounds every week, we don't get them everytime, and so we fume for days, cursing those who dare open food places but do not want to give good ...

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Feeling irreverent

THAT'S how I've been feeling the past week, and so I'm just glad I finally got my original CD of Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" soundtrack album, singing along with its irreverent song about every sperm being sacred, but I'd rather not expound on that here lest I get holy water ...

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Relative time

NEW years always bring in exclamations from friends and kin how fast years go by. And then the ubiquitous attachment to such comment, "unlike before".How time flies, especially during the first or last month of the year is a hackneyed conversation-starter much like the weather, but like weather, it still generates conversation.And ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Nice start… but oops!

IT'S the day after New Year's Day and I had to scratch my head to find a place to eat... and you still think this job is fun?Good thing my food buddy Deng had one in mind, a place she caught sight of during an ukay trip.But ...

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See you when you’re all grown up

SCROUNGING through the book dump that is my office a piece of paper fell off from one. It looked hastily folded, meaning the folds are not in straight lines nor are they all squared off. There were some scribbles at the back, obviously mine, and a blot of what could ...