the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

13 June 2008 Friday   Ask and ye shall receive.   Right after I realized that in the past two years since i quit my job I’ve been moving to a different city every five months or less, and just when I’d already told everyone in Dumaguete that finally, I would be staying put for at least a year, I got an email saying I would be going to Europe and moving to a different country every five months (or less) for 18 months starting in September.   Right now I am on the topmost deck of a ship on a 7-hour trip bound for Cagayan de Oro, where I will take a 7-hour bus ride with all my belongings from Dumaguete to Davao via Bukidnon. I promised myself that I would use this time exclusively for writing updates (for my own journals and for this one), because once I step on land, it’s back to being constantly on my toes. How is it even possible to be a bum for two years now and be constantly, impossibly busy?? You tell me what’s wrong with me after reading this.   It’...

Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Other This was published in September 2003 in Sun.Star Weekend as a Crossline. Happy Father's Day not just to the fathers out there but to all who know the joys (and frustrations) of having a father ;P NB At that time, I had really short hair. Look here to see what I mean. ======================= My father came over last month for a visit on his birthday. He said he wanted to see my new boarding house and office. Of course, the fact that The Boyfriend (whom he refuses to refer to as anything but ang iyong amígo ) had just moved to Cebu must have provided some amount of motivation. We’re not really the type to talk. I always thought he was too engrossed in his private world to be interested in anything I said, while he thought I was too opinionated. But when I live at home, he sometimes sits on my bed when I wake up and talks to me about The Rules. “Don’t you know it’s a New York Times bestseller?” he would say on so many mornings. He has this bad habit of f...

21 April 2008, Davao City. The night before Lola Coring's birthday, we took her to People's Park (the former PTA) and then had dinner at a barbecue place right across. Papa went into historian mode and started asking her about their life in Sorsogon when she and my lolo were growing up. There's still so little they know about their grandparents. I guess he wanted to do this a long time ago, but just didn't know how to initiate the project. Of course, I, too, instantly went into video documentarist mode.

16 April 2006, Davao City. In this clip Lola Coring realizes that her younger brother (my lolo) is actually in a worse physical state than she is, while Lolo Joe learns for the first time that his favorite younger sister, Josefina, has died--just last year, in September, and I never got to meet her :(

16 April 2008, Davao City. In a quick turn of events, the plan to bring Lola Coring to Davao for her 89th birthday came to fruition on April 16, less than a month after we first met, and only three days after the doctor gave her a clean bill of health for travel. Finally, the only two living siblings from Barcelona, Sorsogon met again after 20 years. Thanks to all who made this possible, especially for your prayers. Because time is of the essence.

Description: every war we've lost in philippine history has been because of a few filipino traitors who put their short-term interests first before the future of their countrymen. the JPEPA not just threatens to kill local industries further (as existing free trade agreements already unfairly do) but also gives sovereignty over our natural resources to the japanese. plus, there's also the risk of having toxic electronic waste getting dumped in our land and seas as part of the traded "goods". the agreement also has the power to repeal existing laws protecting our sovereignty if they disagree with new arrangements under this agreement. let us not allow traitors to sell our country again to foreign powers. read up and sign! PS and please do forward this. ==================== Greetings! We, groups and individuals in Cebu campaigning for the rejection of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), are starting an on-line petition addressed to the Philipp...