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Entries from October 2005

Everything happens for a good reason!

October 23rd, 2005 · 1 Comment

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there…to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be but you lock eyes with them, you [...]

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lost 10, gained 20

October 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

the only way to stop my brain from thinking is to keep my teeth grinding. this is the problem that i am facing right now. when i had my vacation last summer [march to august 2005] i lost more than 10 lbs. not that much huh! but for me it was [...]

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Beauty Pageant Jokes?

October 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

Host: What was the very first gift that you gave to your girlfriend?
Male Contestant: Uhmm… taptoy.
Host: What taptoy?
Male Contestant: Taptoy na teddy bird.
Host: What’s your ideal age for marriage?
Girl: Uhmm… I am not sure…
Host: Hindi… Kunwari ikaw, more or less…?
Girl: Uhmm… more.
(crowd booing…)
Sige, Sige… Less, less….
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sleepy saturday

October 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

eto ang ayoko sa sabado, dahil nga unang araw ng trabaho parang ayaw ko pang gumising. galit na galit na ang cellphone cum alarm clock ko [un na lang silbi ng cellphone ko e, ala namang nagtetext of natawag], e niroromansa ko pa rin ang aking unan at comforter.
malamig na nga these past few [...]

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counting days, hours & minutes

October 21st, 2005 · 3 Comments

naging ugali na yata namin dito ang magbilang ng araw hanggang maka-uwi ng pinas. each month, we religiously cross-out the months that passed and counting the remaining months.
sabi nga ng isa kong kasama, ‘ayaw kong maglagay ng kalendaryo sa kwarto ko, mas nakaka-home-sick un. he maybe right, isipin mo lang kung gaano ka [...]

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sense of fulfillment

October 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments

akala ko walang taong fulfilled sa kanilang ginagawa. like everything must be paid according to what ur doing. i met this girl sa chat [siya lang nagtyagang makipag-chat sa akin e], nagtatrabaho siya bilang isang social worker sa town namin sa cavite. here are the excerpt of our chat.
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talk about the weather

October 18th, 2005 · 2 Comments

quickie: feature na naman ang team namin sa abante-middle east edition, ung mga nasa middle-east please grab a copy, to view the scanned feature click here.
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everyone living in the eastern region of saudi arabia would agree to me that this is not the best weather we could experience. ang [...]

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living on a prayer

October 16th, 2005 · 7 Comments

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
                     Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
                     German economist [...]

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2 challenges

October 15th, 2005 · No Comments

quickie: feature ngayong araw ang team namin sa abante-middle east edition, ung mga nasa middle-east grab a copy, to view the scanned feature click here.
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just a couple of hours before our game starts, tumawag ang hipag ko sa akin na nasa taif dito rin sa saudi. i was preparing [...]

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boys don’t cry

October 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments

quickie: tonight is our game against the pistons, it’s a do or die situation for both teams.
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i was overwhelmed by the responses i received from my previous entry entitled time in a bottle, to date, i received 8 comments and most of these are women. mejo pinag-isipan ko ito, [...]

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