In light of the coming Hallmark-inspired non-holiday, I’ve busted out several sappy DVDs for a special singleton Valentine movie marathon. For the purposes of this marathon, I’ve decided to divide my viewing equally between the Rom-Com movies (romantic comedies) and the Classics. Arguably, the Rom-Com movies I have lined up can also be considered classics in their own right, but let’s not get into semantics.
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I was having a particularly merciless bout of insomnia and so I tried to keep my nighttime activities as inane as possible to bore myself to sleep. I read a boring book I have been trying to finish since 2008. No dice (no luck finishing the book either, I found my mind wandering to cheerier places at every paragraph). I stared at the ceiling until the agiw annoyed me; it was 5:37 AM, the birds were chirping outside, and it won’t be long before the neighbor nearest my window started belting out his shower concert (While I am all for cultivating a healthy imagination, I must point out that imagining yourself to have a good singing voice has cost a number of people their lives in unfortunate karaoke bar incidents, but I digress). And so I did the unthinkable and decided to clean up my cell phone inbox.
We went to Alay ng Puso and I didn’t pick up a single toddler and treated him like he was my pamangkin or cousin. Or as someone who’d infallibly affect my life in some way.
- Alay ng Puso Kids’ Conference
Yuppie Reports: Banned Books Week
02
Oct 2009
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.
Yuppie Reports: Typhoon Ondoy, aka Ketsana
28
Sep 2009
Ketsana, locally known as Typhoon Ondoy, was detected as early as last Wednesday, September 23. I don’t know meteorological jargon, but as far as I know, this one was supposed to be weak. In comparison to the two typhoons I remember, Milenyo (a Category 4 typhoon back in 2006, with lashing windspeeds of 215 kph, around 130 mph. For those of you who like twisted fun facts, this storm also hit the Philippines on the closing days of September and was the one that blew the roof clean off of our house.) and Rosing (a Category 5 that hit back in October 1995, it’s one of the strongest typhoons EVER. If you’re having a hard time visualizing it, jump into a wind tunnel, set the switch to 260 km/h – 160 mph – then stand there while you get pelted with debris.), Ondoy was only a relatively weak PAGASA Storm Signal 1 (30-60 kph). Little did we know though, that what Ondoy lacked in quality, it made up in quantity.
