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It’s the day after Christmas. I’m home from home, rested and unpacked. Now I shall take a few minutes to blog before I head for the office. To continue where I left off last night, we woke up Christmas morning to a breakfast of lugaw (rice porridge) with various Chinese condiments (e.g. pickled seaweed, spiced […]
Christmas Eve! Quite often, it is on this night that I feel even more Christmas-y than Christmas Day itself. I’m at home now (family-home in Greenhills, that is, not my apartment-home in the south suburbs), having arrived earlier this afternoon by taxi. Tonight we’ll be going off to my aunt’s place for Misa de Gallo […]
The diary of Eric Harris, Columbine shooter, is disturbingly full of puerile, senseless violence. But why? These insights crossed my mind: 1.) Strange modes of evolutionary thought. “Natural selection” comes into focus, with Harris thinking “I am higher than you people,” thus justifying to himself the idea that the superior human must destroy inferiors as […]
Saved from an old thread when I still had a PHP forum on my site. Krissy (The Catholic side, scroll down for my response) Huh. I guess the part that bothered me was his comment on “there is NO DOUBT that a TRUE Christian WILL eventually leave the Church! It’s not a question of IF […]
Update: The pictures are no longer at the linked location, and that’s probably a good thing. Let her rest in peace. For pictures, please refer to a Google image search for Nida Blanca. I understand that a lot of people have come to my site looking for Nida Blanca murder pictures. I don’t have any, […]
Okay, here are the poll results on where you people put your hands while singing. It seems that the greatest number of you — 25% — can be seen holding hymnals. A close second at 23% comes the sinister and ominous action of resting your hands on the pew in front of you. Tied at […]
Bible study group last night focused on Matthew 2, the Visit of the Magi, and one thing took my notice: If God is against the use of astrology for divination (Deut 4.19), why are these Zoroastrian astrologers from the East such key players in the Nativity story? Of course, the classic interpretation is that the […]
I just got “dropped” by a jeepney. The driver wouldn’t stop on the first or second “Para,” so I had to yell angrily at him. Then, as I was getting off from the back and muttering to myself, he abruptly accelerated before my boot had touched the ground, depositing me unceremoniously on the rough asphalt. […]
In the days following 9/11 terrorist attacks, I readily agreed with the general trend of thought that a good and loving God could not possibly be responsible for such horrible acts. (Yes, that also meant jumping on the “Bash-Falwell-Robertson” bandwagon.) I thought to myself that this is not God’s way of punishing America, but rather […]
I joined Tiff’s folks two Sundays ago to visit the Doulos, which (until yesterday) was docked at Manila North Harbor. Wow, I never thought the ship was so big. I had been expecting something about the size of Big Blue (the liveaboard we stayed on in Palau), but this was much bigger, more on the […]