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A Moth In The Flame

Posted in Literature, Politics on Jun 26th, 2009 4 Comments »

Idealism is one glorious
iridescent flame-
a magnet to young blood
swathe in innocence. How
with our simplicity,
our winged resistance-
singed and burned. Died
 
until our ashes will mix
in the wick, obliterated
by mediocrity and irrelevance.
Our lives wasted and fading
to wisps of smoke-
in a country where poverty is
a usual sight. Everyday
 
like cockroaches,
we swarmed the sewers of society
and its livid pavement. Of placards-
waving [...]

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Pasig River And The Warrior Child

Posted in Memoirs on May 24th, 2009 No Comments »

I once had the chance to swim the Pasig River when I was just about five or six, I guess.  An uncle, who was a robust teenager that time, invited by his friends, tagged me along with him one afternoon.  We walked across J.P Rizal street and descended some flight of steps going to the [...]

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Musically Challenged

Posted in Art Scene, Current Affairs, Music on May 8th, 2009 No Comments »

I have always wanted to learn how to play the piano.  It is one of the things in my bucket list that I am compelled to do, fulfilling the goals I have set several years ago, but so elusive that I never found the proper time and place to learn it.  Even if I tried [...]

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One Foggy Morning

Posted in Current Affairs, Memoirs on Jan 1st, 2009 1 Comment »

Today is January 1 of 2009,  I woke up early,  surprised why there are no lights from my windows.  Normally, I see car headlights in the street and lighted windows from the buildings each morning.  Looking at the clock, time seems to have overstepped its normal pace.
I came out of the front door and there the [...]

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Classmates in Grade School

Posted in Memoirs on Sep 11th, 2008 3 Comments »

I was searching through the friends list on my Friendster, when suddenly a name came accross my mind.  Yeah, I was looking for this friend for so long and now I am typing her name on the blank spaces anticipating that the search engines will come up with some positive results. Voila!! There she goes. She is [...]

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