ONE night on my way home I passed by a group of small kids on the sidewalk counting their proceeds from carolling. I stopped to watch them with amusement and the…
Read MoreMonth: September 2007
The baptismal drink
I'VE always considered drinking as a vice "strictly for the boys" only way back in college. In fact, the hardest drink I've ever taken was Coolers (I only learned a few…
Read MoreThe “Anting-anting”
ALTHOUGH I still haven't set foot in the island of Siquijor, the fact remains that my mother is a Siquijodnon through and through, born albeit not raised in this place which…
Read MoreTale of the flying jeans
"NO one is allowed to go out in jeans because we will have sundown worship at the lawn after dinner," The booming voice of our octogenarian dean from the door of…
Read MoreSlimnastics craze
MY struggle to fight the excess body fat started since I laid eyes on the handsomest boy in our class way back in my high school freshman year. It was during…
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