Dinuguan

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Dinuguan is a delicious Filipino stew made from pig’s blood and meat. Yummy with rice. Just spoon some blood onto your rice, and you have a good meal already. You can buy it at almost any canteen or local fastfood if it’s on the menu for the day. Mmmm. Here’s the recipe, if you’re interested. Use more blood if you want the sauce thicker, but be sure to stir, so it doesn’t clot.

Lunar Eclipse 2001

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Hey, the first lunar eclipse of the millenium is coming up. Totality will be visible from the Philippines at around moonset in the early morning; probably won’t be able to see it through all the smoke and buildings, but if I can get up around 3am, maybe I can catch the start of the show. Here’s a diagram of the eclipse at GMT. Philippine Standard Time is GMT+8.

Schilling Conspiring?

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Jeffrey Schilling, the American who was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf last year, has been seen, armed, walking freely around Mindanao with the bandits. Great. Wonderful.

Just a few months ago, the Inquirer published a photo of Schilling complaining about his captivity and flashing a dirty finger at the photographer. It may mean that he wasn’t a conspirator before when they kidnapped him, and he’s only recently sympathized with them.

I wonder what the U.S. plans to do about it?

Update, 04/2001: Well, Schilling says “DESTROY!” My fears of conspiracy were completely unfounded.

Kinurot Ang Suso

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While I was walking from Alabang Town Center to church, a man stopped me and asked if he’d seen someone around the area wearing a striped shirt. So I asked him why. He said that some guy went up to him, pinched his nipples (in Tagalog, kinurot ang suso), and ran off, so he was wondering if I might have seen him. (Why he would associate me with such a strangely random, strangely stupid occurrence, I have no idea.)

I suspiciously said no. Then he started asking me if anyone was with me, where I lived, and what my name was. At which point I said, “Sige po! Bye-bye!” and promptly walked away from him.

You sure get creeps in this country. I suppose I’m fortunate I didn’t get held up.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago goes nuts

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Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago managed to embarass herself in front of the whole nation by throwing a rather undignified tantrum at the impeachment trial, live on national TV.

What happened to the woman? She used to be such a great lawyer and senator, fiery yet respectable. Now she seems to suffer from a growing self-rationalized mental instability, rabidly supporting President Erap and acting more fiery than respectable.

Well, she has lost my respect, and with that, my vote. The only way she can redeem herself now is to drop her front and vote to convict Erap. I highly doubt that; she is one of the few Senators who is absolutely certain to vote for acquittal, even in the face of all the witnesses and all the evidence presented, which establish without doubt, for most of us, that Erap does indeed have a large, fat finger in the pie.

Motets

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This morning, ******* played motets on her program. I love motets. I also love *******. And when ******* plays motets, my morning is complete. :)