These Curious Days

Dear Chuvaness,
Thank you for your post last week about Lightwater.
Since this kind of weather started, I’ve experienced more headaches and muscle aches than I used to. Sometimes I even get vertigo. My mother, who’s a nurse, immediately recognized that I was suffering from electrolyte depletion since I play tennis regularly and have to go around [...]

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When I was growing up, my mother wasn’t around very much because she worked as a nurse in Tripoli, Libya. This was the pre-mobile phone, pre-internet era, and phone lines didn’t reach many parts of Manila yet. We communicated through long-distance phone conversations at a relatives’ house every Sunday and through snail mail (which arrived [...]

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Filipino-American DJ Qbert played a benefit gig at LAX behind Mall of Asia last Jan. 15 to help out victims of Typhoon Ondoy in collaboration with Sagip Kapamilya Foundation. Fifty percent of the proceeds went to charity. Qbert isn’t the first celebrity or “name” DJ to spin at LAX. Samantha Ronson launched the club last [...]

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In CNN’s list for Top 10 HEROES for 2009, they included Muelmar Magallanes, the 18 year-old boy who died after rescuing his family and neighbors from the flashfloods caused by Typhoon Ketsana.
My personal list of heroes for 2009 would include Alexis Tioseco.
For pursuing his passion for film, especially the independent local film industry.
For choosing to [...]

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