Travel, Parenting & Marketing Notes
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Flushed with fever, red-hot cheeks, mouth filled with oranges every hour. I savored the light emitted by my laptop’s screen. Every sick person is a grouch, so here are the DON’T’S I learned from Lizzy. Perhaps more will come if I get sicker. (Note: Lizzy is Elizabeth Bennet, the main character in Pride and Prejudice by…
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Masasabi kong sa lahat ng kapatid ni ate, ako ang una nyang minahal. Paano ko nasabi? Kwento ko sa inyo. Noong anim na taon pa lang sya, at tatlong taon ako, kalong-kalong nya ako habang nasa gilid kami ng tulay. Gawa pa ito sa kahoy kaya di matibay. Tapos biglang may paparating na malaking sasakyan,…
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If I had a grandma like hers, who constantly and faithfully advised: “Never cry, never complain, To God you may, but not to humans.” Those who like you will only be sad, Those who hate you will be glad, Those who matter to you will be depressed, Those who don’t care would only disappoint. Are…
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Cheerleader: You know what Bill, I’m sorry. Bill: Don’t worry. (pause) You only have 3 minutes and 26 seconds (pause) left in heaven. -Another Scene- Bill: What’s it like being pretty? Cheerleader: I don’t know. Like… this is the only way I’ve ever looked. Bill: I think people treat you nicer when you’re pretty. Cheerleader:…
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At five, Jam proposed we check out Star Cinema’s “No Other Woman”. I refused. Why watch something that would only make you feel bad, if not mad? I said I’d rather linger at the cozy cafe at the ground floor of our building. She hesitated, so I told her: “It’s on me.” A moment later,…
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Only one thing made me stay up late during high school. Study? Wrong. Writing love letters? Partly wrong. Partying? Super wrong. Okay, you’re forcing me to say it – script-writing! (Mood: Reminiscent) Oedipus the King was my teacher’s pick for the class stage play presentation. We had to divide this popular Greek myth into five…
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The resultant moment of a couple is called a torque. A torque is a special case of moment. Well, you can just forget about the mechanics of couple as it meant in Physics. Peek into into my kaleidoscopic view of love between a couple. The word “kaleidoscope” is derived from the Ancient Greek καλ(ός) (beauty, beautiful), είδο(ς) (form,…
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Look at the girl, isn’t her smile so refreshing? That familiar face, Filled with expectations, Of great things about the future, Without care in the world, Unburdened, Undisguised, Nostalgic. When she cries, she’s unstoppable. So it is when she laughs. Contagious. When I’ve seen this picture, I feel like my essential self, the child in…
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Igor wants nothing but enjoy a life of financial freedom with his wife, Ewa, whom he’d destroy worlds for. He simply wants to build a home with her in Baikal lake- undisturbed, unperturbed. Yet the arduous path he had to go through transformed him into an “evil one” in the eyes of his angel, Ewa.…
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PATTY: It’s almost nine o’clock. SELMA: Where is Homer anyway? PATTY: It’s typical of the big doofus to spoil it all. LISA: What Aunt Patty? PATTY: Oh nothing, dear. I’m just trashing your father. LISA: Well, I wish that you wouldn’t. Because aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he’s the only father I…