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Stories from Tatay: Go Fish

My dad is an amazing fount of interesting stories. Honestly, I’d hear much more if I had more patience to just sit and listen. The extra helping of patience is needed to hear some stories told over and over. Plus, dad is in the habit of bringing me coffee, sitting down, and start telling stories – regardless if I’m writing, playing games, talking to five people at once over chat or just lounging about. I’m sure I do and will do that too – tell stories over and over – so I don’t have the right to be annoyed or anything. Also, my tatay’s stories tend to meld into one another, and sometimes, there isn’t so much as a “It was a dark and stormy night” intro.

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Yuppie Reports: Banned Books Week

Tomorrow marks the end of Banned Books Week, a yearly celebration that started back in 1982 to counter calls for censorship. There have been several challenges to written works for any number of reasons like anti-ethnicism, sexual content, different political and religious viewpoints, violence, offensive language, and inappropriateness for the age group the book was released for, among others.

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Teka lang muna please

Umuulan nanaman. Parang may inang humahagulgol para sa mga nawala nyang anak. Malakas, maingay, at hindi matahan. Kung tutuusin, kung iiyakan ng Inang Kalikasan ang kanyang mga anak na puno, siguro kinain na ng dagat ng Pilipinas.

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