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Disappearing in Thailand

The first thing you need to know about Bangkok is how the heat can make you do crazy things in April. One morning, after the usual breakfast of croissant, eggs(?), fresh orange juice, coffee, and...

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Nail specialists

Our fingers, our toes – they register our hardships or lack of such. “Nail experts” can read how and how often we use them. A professor of literature once observed that social classes can be read in...

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Sleep and Marcus Wayne

  Having a kid at home sends waves of energy and love. Hope to crush this boy with hugs and kisses again, probably on the long weekend. And now, I go back to sleep. But very quickly, speaking of sleep,...

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Sleep – an important health and beauty investment

Australian sleep expert Prof. D Hillman said sleep, like diet and exercise, is key to healthy living. One who lacks sleep experiences quality problems in thought processing, decision making, vigilance,...

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World’s 2013 ‘best’ universities

I did a rewrite of a breaking news on the world’s top universities ranked according to reputation. As you might have guessed, the elite “super-brand” universities from the US and UK were on top. In...

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The so many questions after her death

There have always been those who have filled their bellies because they had no sense of shame, but we, who have nothing, apart from this last shred of undeserved dignity, let us at least show that we...

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No use talking about privacy in social media, says law professor

Less—not more—privacy benefits the community, said Deakin Law professor who argued that “the more we know about other people, the clearer it becomes that they are like us.” This, he said, reduces...

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Crossing fingers for heaps of good news

It’s a shame that the world is crazy over news on Boston bombing while ignoring or ignorant of that bombed Afghan wedding where casualties were ten times more than the marathon tragedy. This is not to...

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We are what we eat and I am a salad

Since I come home after work early in the afternoon, siesta time, I would usually take a nap, read a book, walk around MOA (Booksale or Fullybooked or fashion stores), watch BBC/CNN/HBO, or prepare...

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April

Women, they say, are most physically attractive when they’re in their late 20s and early 30s. Natalie Portman easily comes to mind as an example. This is the time of maturity for many in terms of...

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At the sound of hello

At the sound of hello, I quiver holding the telephone connecting me to a voice from the land of aborigines, kangaroos, and koalas. Koalas. Seventy-five percent of a koala’s day, they say, is spent on...

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Mangoes, anyone?

Mike knows that mangoes tame my inner monsters, so since the onset of summer he’s been buying me kilos of yellow mangoes that exude that familiar smell of ripeness. One second, I could be a complete...

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If the MMDA really has to write Dan Brown a letter

If the MMDA really has to write Dan Brown a letter, maybe I would have volunteered as their ghostwriter and have the chair sign this: Dear author, That literature mirrors reality has long been a...

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Jars and a rainy day

When I was small, I slid some sheets of crepe paper into jars of water, and my jaw dropped when the water turned red, blue and green. I kept the jars at the backyard of my grandparents’ house,...

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Radio and bedtime stories

When I was small, my parents were sometimes away and the aunts slept in another room, so my sister and I would sleep at the master’s bedroom, listening to voices and sounds on the radio, clutching our...

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After the French film festival, Fête de la Musique

After the free French Film Festival last week (Jay and I watched Rust and Bone starring Marion Cotillard), Aliance Francais is bringing us another most-awaited free event in Manila, Fête de la Musique...

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Einstein’s letter to 11 year-old son

Thirty-six years old and a Dad, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his son Hans Albert when the genius was in Berlin. The 11-year old was in Vienna, with his brother Edward (“Tete”) and Einstein’s...

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Cinemalaya 2013: 25 films and some posters of art

Vilma Santos is the lead star of Jeffrey Jeturian’s Ekstra; Eugene Domingo of Leo Abaya’s Instant Mommy; Gretchen Barretto of Christopher Ad. Castillo’s The Diplomat Hotel, and Alessandra De Rossi of...

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My first cover story

 For anyone trying  to make a dent in their ‘writing career,’ having one’s story published on the cover of a magazine is such a milestone worth sharing. Here I post my first cover story – the latest...

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Being a monster is not easy

There’s a scene in Monsters University where Mike Wazowski was sitting by a lake, looking at the moon, contemplating his failure in being a monster. He’s a monster alright but the dean and other...

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