During the Spanish revolution, Emilio Aguinaldo held court for Filipino freedom in Cavite, while Andres Bonifacio in Manila. Since it was inevitable that these two powerful forces joined, the two leaders set a date, a time, and a plan for the First Revolutionary Battle of the Philippines as a whole against the Spaniards. The plan...
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This is all about Pale Saints
I’m here this morning to write utterly useless things. Number one is that one of the best films I’ve ever seen was the 1996 film Pale Saints. Who could have thought that this masterpiece hails from Canada? Who could ever resist a riveting Russian roulette scene? But wait, let me digress. About Russian roulette in...
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Cake and Songs
Today is Happy Birthday Jul day, so you all be nice and sing him a song…and stay in tune! All the best things and all the best dreams and everything pink and blue from me to you, my favourite Engineer in Jordan! *blowing candles from a cake*
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The strong gets more while the weak ones fade
Playing Chinese checkers with papercups on a windy Friday June evening, under palm trees with mosquitoes biting bare legs. It should’ve rained but still it held our interest, and after all peoplewatching is a noble way of passing time, especially wtih coffee. Torn packs of sugar on the table, brown sugar, white sugar, cream, heavy...
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Leaping Andromeda
There is a story, I forget where I read it, about a man whose princess daughter was kidnapped, and in order to save her, the condition was to be able to jump over three stars in the sky. Or something similar to that. The other story details aren’t clear to me anymore, but I remember...
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Ballerina imbalance
Noticing an imperceptible movement of something you never give a second thought to is a monumental feat. Most of the time we’re too busy looking out the window to notice that we just want to look at ourselves. Most of the time we look into mirrors to be reassured that we aren’t disappearing yet. There...
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Let it be known that I don’t watch basketball and I fall asleep watching golf matches on TV, but I tremendously enjoy football because the Americans suck at it.
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