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72The Face of Disaster, Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines
Saturday, September 26 2009 will be remembered in the Philippines and the rest of the world as the day that nature unleashed its most cruel wrath, flash floods in the nation's capital and an aftermath that is comparable only to Hurricane Katrina. Up to this day the whole nation weeps as we come to grips with the sheer impact of this calamity on lives and livelihood. Now rebuilding begins.
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58From Dawn to Distraction, The Good Old New Wave Era
The year was 1986, the place, St. Michael’s bar in Makati Avenue, the bands were "Sake" (the japanese wine) and "Charlotte Russe" (which happens to be a cake). The frontman for Sake is someone who is now...
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70On Being Grounded
when seeking my bearings i turn to words, not my own though, but those of the wise, the thinkers, the life scholars whose work is to watch humanity and interpret their lives. these string of words restore my...
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62The Happy Slave, Excerpts from Elsewhere
Hola amigos y amigas, I swear that is all the Spanish I know. So how are we under this sweltering sun, this scorching heat? I've been mentally out of touch lately, no no i haven't gone mad (the jury's still...
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70Chip Tsao: Another Racist in Our Midst
If it weren't so painful I'd laugh. Chip Tsao is a columnist for HK Magazine and on March 27 after publishing his views on the Spratly Islands dispute, he became the the most hated man in the Philippines. He...
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58Jam Sessions
Please allow me to be a little cheat here and limit my words as I endeavor to share a few musical gems I stumbled upon while prowling on the pages of the ultimate video site and watching musical performances....
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73Genocide: Horror Stories of the 20th Century
Adolf Hitler to his Army commanders, August 22, 1939: "Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my 'Death's Head Units' with the orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who still talks nowadays about the Armenians?"
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55Self-Medication for Brain Constipation August 2008
Brain constipation is my affliction at the moment I suppose. I'm sure I got it from talking too much about Filipino entertainment gossip. I swear I've developed a case of intermittent headache attacks from...
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66Why I Love History
One of the best gifts I gave myself on Christmas 2007 is a 3-DVD box set of the BBC documentary series “The Nazis: A Warning from History”. The history of the Jewish holocaust fascinates me so and I...
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55The Clock of the Heart
if people were braver, they would look beyond the pain and sadness of endings most times people create new beginnings after something ends endings don’t bother me too much and i don’t...
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