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HAPPY TRIP 19: Chloe-isms 2 26 Mar 2009 | 07:47 pm
The little princess swept the awards in her grade this year, including the Gold Medal and other special awards for winning the Spelling, Math, and Science Quiz Bees, among others. She's getting eight ...
HAPPY TRIP 18: Chloe-isms 20 Mar 2009 | 03:52 pm
The little princess was putting on her PE uniform this morning before school. Then she realized she didn't have her panties on yet. "Oh, that's why I didn't feel any tightness in my butt!" she quipped...
BAD TRIP 21: Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer 26 Feb 2009 | 03:17 am
News just in: 9 Dead in Turkish Plane Crash in Amsterdam And just recently: Airplane Crash-lands in Hudson River… 50 Killed as Plane Hits House Near Buffalo… 2 Dead in Fiery Plane Crash at Illinois A...
HAPPY TRIP 15: Palanca wannabe Part 2 7 Jan 2009 | 10:10 pm
While other kids were busy squeezing gifts out of tight-fisted ninongs and ninangs last Christmas, my eight-year-old little princess had her nose in a book the entire time. She actually finished volum...
FIRST TRIP 13: Bubalus mindorensis 6 Jan 2009 | 08:33 pm
When I first set foot on Mindoro island four months ago, I declared to my co-workers that I wanted to have my picture taken beside a tamaraw. They all laughed at me. Forgive my ignorance but I really ...
BAD TRIP 20: Buchikik ek ek ek 9 Dec 2008 | 10:15 pm
I’ve had my share of ill-mannered people but this one takes the cake. Last week in Shenzhen, China a friend and I were waiting in line for a taxi in front of a mall when, just as we were about to take...
HAPPY TRIP 14: Malalaking Munting Tinig 13 Nov 2008 | 04:07 pm
The Grade II class was in full swing; the pupils sang “Bahay Kubo” with all their might, their little voices shrill in the distance. Then I caught a deep baritone, his “sitaw, bataw, pataniiiiiiii” so...
BAD TRIP 19: Bata bata...sana di ka na ginawa 10 Nov 2008 | 09:51 pm
The girl must be no more than 13. And yet a baby already clung to her, sucking on a breast hungrily. And she’s not the only one. Lots of other children her age in almost all the Mangyan villages I vis...
SIDE TRIP 43: Chained 10 Sep 2008 | 09:05 pm
I thought the roads in Samar were bad. Really bad. All potholes, no pavement. Aaaargh! The incumbent Congressman’s wife took a beating in the last elections because of them. (GMA then promptly install...
SOUND TRIP 3: Call of Nature 11 Aug 2008 | 04:13 pm
The Mangyan “Mayor” was nowhere to be found when we went up their village in the mountains of Calintaan. (Their village is the gateway to the Mt. Iglit-Baco National Park, home of the tamaraw.) We wer...
