Filipino humor is a special sort of gem. It’s a gem that stays dusty, flawed and chipped – but it’s still a gem, to people who can appreciate it. A shining example is the Filipino term usapang lasing (literally, drunken talk) which gives birth to crude, mind-boggling jokes that make sense only to the heavily...

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Days are moving quicker, especially now; I’ve kept very quiet about it but there are so much things to think about and so many things to do that as an antithesis to it all I simply find myself falling to bed and falling asleep at once. But to wake up sometime is a good idea:...

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Self-Diagnosis: It has taken me up to 25-minutes of leisurely stretching in bed before getting up, proving fatal for punctuality reports. Have tripled amount of nicotine, despite sweetheart’s campaign to “Stop Smoking Soon”. But soon, we will. Sub-entry: The Flying Mouse This mouse has been culprit of disturbing the peace in our abode. He/she has...

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The latest French word I’ve learned is ‘donc’, a conjugation, which means ‘therefore’. Donc, I use this word whenever I can. Also in my vocabulary is the French word for ‘go’, which is ‘aller’. I’m brushing up on some French as my boyfriend asks me again and again why I say ‘ko’ instead of ‘ako’,...

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