Posted on January 31st, 2011 by jayclops
“What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ulti…
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Posted on January 31st, 2011 by jayclops
“What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ulti…
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Posted on January 6th, 2011 by jayclops
That is, as they say, the croak of an American frog, whereas the Pinoy frog would say Kokak. Jeez, what a corny way to start the obligatory new year post. Napaka-echoserang palaka naman eh year of the rabbit nga. Which means, people will copulate more …
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Posted on January 6th, 2011 by jayclops
That is, as they say, the croak of an American frog, whereas the Pinoy frog would say Kokak. Jeez, what a corny way to start the obligatory new year post. Napaka-echoserang palaka naman eh year of the rabbit nga. Which means, people will copulate more …
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Posted on December 23rd, 2010 by jayclops
It’s 7:52. Plans of going home=nil. The whirr of the aircon. Alone again in a two-room office. The hard rain that just died down. Noises from vehicles. The semi-bitter after taste of orange juice. Christmas lights from the department store up front vis…
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Posted on December 23rd, 2010 by jayclops
It’s 7:52. Plans of going home=nil. The whirr of the aircon. Alone again in a two-room office. The hard rain that just died down. Noises from vehicles. The semi-bitter after taste of orange juice. Christmas lights from the department store up front vis…
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Posted on October 24th, 2010 by jayclops
When I realized that I left my laptop charger on top of a table inside a municipal gym somewhere in Davao del Sur, it was already too late. Or maybe not really that late; the vehicle could turn back, amidst the drizzle, and allow myself to realize once…
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Posted on October 24th, 2010 by jayclops
When I realized that I left my laptop charger on top of a table inside a municipal gym somewhere in Davao del Sur, it was already too late. Or maybe not really that late; the vehicle could turn back, amidst the drizzle, and allow myself to realize once…
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Posted on June 8th, 2010 by jayclops
Sometimes we feel the need to take note the absence, the loss. It comes all so sudden, the urgency to fill the gaps, as if it bridges the then and now by the inconsequential details that we pile up feverishly like stones and sand in the shore we …
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Posted on June 8th, 2010 by jayclops
Sometimes we feel the need to take note the absence, the loss. It comes all so sudden, the urgency to fill the gaps, as if it bridges the then and now by the inconsequential details that we pile up feverishly like stones and sand in the shore we …
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Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by jayclops
Over the usual bland Chinese food we always can’t seem to get rid of, a colleague and I were deriding certain people worth deriding. I said to him that it is not really my habit to badmouth people, being the Confucian that I am, adhering to that prin…
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Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by jayclops
Over the usual bland Chinese food we always can’t seem to get rid of, a colleague and I were deriding certain people worth deriding. I said to him that it is not really my habit to badmouth people, being the Confucian that I am, adhering to that prin…
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Posted on February 20th, 2010 by jayclops
When I think about it now, I’m scared to think of it as ominous — me staring at the blank switched-off screen of our puny TV set. I can see myself reflected in the tube but I can’t see my face. It’s like that scene from the Coen brothers’ No Coun…
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Posted on February 20th, 2010 by jayclops
When I think about it now, I’m scared to think of it as ominous — me staring at the blank switched-off screen of our puny TV set. I can see myself reflected in the tube but I can’t see my face. It’s like that scene from the Coen brothers’ No Coun…
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by jayclops
This plane should have taken you to Paris, dimwit. Or Amsterdam, or Munich, or Vienna. No, make it Bruges. Instead, as usual, this took you to hell and back. Where’s the beer, loser?
::: A day before my birthday, I was still in polluted Manila b…
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by jayclops
This plane should have taken you to Paris, dimwit. Or Amsterdam, or Munich, or Vienna. No, make it Bruges. Instead, as usual, this took you to hell and back. Where’s the beer, loser?
::: A day before my birthday, I was still in polluted Manila b…
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Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by jayclops
When does a decade really end? I was just wondering since everybody seems to be doing a decades-end list or it’s in the media saying what a decade it was and all that crap. Supposing we start counting on 1 then the end of the decade would really be the…
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Posted on December 31st, 2009 by jayclops
Ohmygod I’m dreading to do this but here I am in front of a pc in a half-filled internet cafe that’s usually full and usually noisy. If the two deaf people in front of me were actually making sounds out of there words instead of sign languages, there w…
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Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by jayclops
Can I just pause and actually believe it? It’s freakin’ Christmas. The only indication of its coming-atcha mood only came a few days ago while waiting for a taxi that would lead me to the inevitable office Christmas party, which obviously plenty of us …
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Posted on November 15th, 2009 by jayclops
They call it microblogging but for whatever purpose it may serve to other Facebook users but the ubiquitous box wherein you place your thoughts is for me the most easiest I can get to a rant, or an outlet. So thanks, Mr. Zuckerberg, whom I just read in…
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