Category: personal
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miiEtiquette: Play Nice, It's Not Your Party
To my dear guests, You are cordially invited to my totally awesome Christmas party. I promise you it will be epic: fire dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson rising out of the grave, with a 5-star Michelin buffet. The party I have in mind will be the stuff of rap videos. And I want all…
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Maybe this time
GMA News: PAGASA: Weather clear for November 9 asteroid ‘sighting’. It seems silly to take the word of a hit-or-miss weather bureau and a daily known for dipping into tabloid fodder. Yet as I while away in an office the end of the world seems all the more likely. Why not now, after all? We’ve…
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Art as Conversation
My approach to art is to see if it works as a whole. I wasn’t wowed by Mideo Cruz’s “Poleteismo”, but I get it. If the only thing we see is a condom and a dildo over pictures of Jesus and Mary, then the criticism fails. I overheard a colleague criticize Mideo Cruz’s work as…
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The World in Pixies: Life without facebook
I am now easing into a new life as a digital copywriter for a major advertising agency. As I like telling people, “What else do you do with someone who wastes a lot of time online?” But well, it’s still an office. I settle in and find out that facebook is banned on most of…
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I am the horcrux
I had written this after an unexpectedly emotional reaction to Deathly Hollows part 1. It is now mere weeks before Mom’s death anniversary, and just days before Deathly Hollows part 2. Harry Potter was with me throughout high school to the tail end of college. Funny as always, how the end of the movie series…