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Pinipilit ako ng dalawa kong kapatid na bata na ibigay ko sa kanila yung bookmark na nabili ko sa Powerbooks. Tiger yung design kaya gusto talaga nila.
Sabi ko, “Hindi naman kayo nagbabasa ng libro, san nyo gagamitin yung bookmark?”
Pinipilit pa rin nila ‘ko.
“Oh sige. Ganito na lang. Kung sino manalo sa inyo, makakatanggap ng bookmark sa birthday nya. Game! Quiz tungkol kay Rizal.”
Tungkol kay Rizal ang naisip ko dahil kinukwentuhan ko naman sila paminsan-minsan tungkol kay Rizal.
Ito ang mga tanong ko at mga sagot nila, kung sagot nga ang tawag mo sa mga ‘to.
Ako: Ano ang paboritong almusal ni Rizal?
Jonas: Pansit!!
(Oo, paboritong pagkain ni Rizal ang pansit. Yun yata ang nakwento ko sa kanya. Kaso hindi paboritong almusal. Pero nakakatuwa nakikinig pala sya sa kwento ko dati.)
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Ako: Sino ang unang crush ni Jose Rizal?
Jonas: Jose Manuel!
(Dati nagtataka ‘ko kung bakit may kumakalat na chismis na bading si Rizal. Ngayon parang alam ko na kung pano nagsimula ang chismis na yon.)
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Ako: Nung nanalo si Rizal sa lotto, bumili sya ng tatlong bahay. Ano ginawa nya sa tatlong bahay na yon?
Jonas: Hinukay!
(Treasure hunting?)
Joshua: Pinaupahan
(Wow. Napaka-business-minded)
Joshua (hula uli): Pinatirhan sa kamag-anak
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At dito talaga di na ko makahinga kakatawa.
Ako: Sino paboritong Filipino writer ni Jose Rizal?
Jonas: Bob Ong!
I saw a sign posted on the wall of Book Sale at Robinsons Manila. It reads
Reading is like the sex act — done privately and often enjoyed in bed.
~Daniel Boorstin
Isn’t it?
Bought it at Divisoria on Binondo Street for P10.
I submitted some of my written “imaginations” to Samsung’s I Imagine contest. I just knew about it from Alodia’s journal.
Here are some of my entries. 
You need to register first before voting. You can submit your own imaginations too.
So, vote for me? 
- I imagine the Filipino youth are no longer indifferent. [link]
- I imagine the world has zero percent close-minded humans. [link]
- I imagine filipinos honoring our motherland Philippines. [link]
- I imagine another Jose Rizal is born. [link]
Play
- I imagine an artful world full of diverse paintings. [link]
Love
- I imagine loving more than hating things. [link]
- I imagine discussions without anger.[link]
Some of my imaginations were not yet approved. I’ll just add them here later.
UPDATE:
I think they won’t approve my other imaginations anymore. Maybe there’s a limit. 10, I suppose.
The person who dishonors his country, dishonors himself.
~Paolo Coelho (Like the Flowing River)
Most of the Filipinos want to leave the Philippines. They keep ranting again and again about the happenings in the country.
Here’s the news. Everyone wants to go somewhere else. And when I say everyone, I mean, including the people from other countries. Why? Each country has its own flaw. It just depends on your own level of satisfaction. If the only thing you could do in a day is to rant, you’d never find a country that would satisfy you.
As of now, I am not so in love with the Philippines.
But someday, I’ll leave the Philippines to taste the culture of foreign people, to free myself from the hellish happenings in our country, to realize Philippines is still a good country, if not better than any other country, to miss the Philippines, to be very in love with the Philippines. By then, I am sure, I will go back to my mother land and be deeply in love with her.
I am not saying I hate our country. I like the Philippines, simply because I was born in the Philippines. It’s my place. The Philippines doesn’t harm us. In fact, it is us, the Filipinos, who do something terrible to her.
But I want to miss our country. I want to yearn for her.
The definition of the truly foreign locale is one that fosters a piercing and perpetual yearning to go home.
~Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk about Kevin)
Isn’t it much harder to write about what you love than what you hate?
~Alexis A. Tioseco, Film Critic (Feb. 11, 1981 – Sept. 1, 2009)
It really is. If someone would rummage my book reviews on this blog, he’d notice I rarely write about a book I love. We Need to Talk about Kevin’s my most favorite book but I never wrote a review about it. Sherlock Holmes novel and short stories are so addictive too but I never wrote a review about it (I just blogged the story about hiding the book in a bookshelf). I can’t help reading Rizal without the Overcoat again and again, but I never wrote a review about it.
Maybe because it’s hard to explain why you love something. Now I understand why the statement “I love it, period.” was invented.
Writing more about what you hate than what you love doesn’t automatically make you a pathetic “hater”.
Most critics love to criticize and a few criticize because they love something else.
~Philip Peckson
I go for the latter.
Common sense is instinct
and enough of it is genius.
~Written on the statement shirt of a PUPian
Since when did common sense become instinct?
Enough of it is genius? Dude, almost all people have enough common sense. Okay. All of us are genius.
WordPress buddies, we can now vote for the best WP logos created by WP users!
There are five categories: homemade, WordPress mascots, knowledge, landmarks and masterpieces, and starts with B.
I voted for the following.
Homemade
- Brownie Bites
WordPress Mascot
- Superman
I would have voted the girl anime for the mascot category if only the Ws on her eyes were clearer in thumbnail view.
- Anime
Knowledge
- Multiple Choice
Landmarks and Masterpieces
»Very artful.
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- Starry Night
Starts with B
»Simple yet the WordPress logo stands out. The drawing style reminds me of the images on Jason Mraz’s website.
- Balloon
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