Straight and/or superficial men have something to new rave about. Again. And its not the latest issue of FHM or Maxim. Nor is it a stolen sex video of a starlet giving the waiter a generous tip. It’s Californication, a television show that has given the words “boob tube” a more literal interpretation. The series — featuring the life [...]
Excuse this self-indulgence but I think Microsoft likes me. Yes, Microsoft – the company accused of monopolistic practices, sued by the US and the EU, and considered by free software advocates as the “evil empire.”
Desperation — not necessity — is the mother of invention. After all, it was desperation which forced me to look for a quick, cheap fix one night when I discovered that the sangria I bought — Maria Clara sangria produced by Destileria Limtuaco — was far too sweet for my taste. The company’s sangria used too much [...]
(Also known as the cursory Christmas entry bloggers are wont to indulge in especially during the holidays) And I mean that in a good way. Not in the melancholy, maudlin sense expressed by Paul Simon when he wrote a song of the same title in an album which, by the way, is part of my CD collection [...]
Just like everyone else who needs to make a living – or at least until something better comes along – I put in the usual eight-hour routine in Makati, risking encounters with the usual set of drones, flacks, suits, and sell-outs found in every other financial capital.
A short story in eight tweets, using Twitter's 140 character restriction.
Food reviews are complicated. How do you even begin to describe the taste, let alone the texture, of substances that we willingly — most of the time at least — put in our mouths? Is the meat tough, like substandard bubble gum dispensed by a machine older than your pimply-faced teenager? Was that glass of green tea [...]
Currently addicted to Twittter — via JournoTwit — and my own alltop.com page. This has something to do with the fact that I have a deadline.
To stake your claim on a clean, well-lighted place that has a fully-functioning flush toilet within the UP/Teachers’/Sikatuna Village area, one must have the charm of James Tiberius Kirk, the fortitude of Jean-Luc Picard, and the balls of Kathryn Janeway.
Whether in the form of a power rate hike, a fare increase, or yes, even a recession, such developments are taken as a matter of routine; the knee-jerk reaction of a people who have long been deprived of their rightful share in the country’s financial bounty.
