A Deecoded Life

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A Christmas Carol

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When I was a child, every night from December 16 till Christmas, I would wander around the neighborhood with some neighborhood kids like me, and, armed with nothing but makeshift tambourines (softdrink crowns hammered flat and strung through with wire), our off-key voices, guts, a thirst for money and a bit of Christmas spirit, we’d […]

Wish List 2005

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I never believed in Santa Claus. My parents were too damn practical and didn’t lead me on about him in the first place. Perhaps this is a wise decision, but somehow I feel… cheated. Cheated of my childhood. Cheated of Christmas. We never had a real Christmas tree, too, nor Christmas stockings stuffed with sweets […]

Unplanned Overnight

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It’s early in the morning and I have just started my computer when a sametime message flashes across my screen. It is Kes, asking for advice. I am not exactly surprised. Not that Kes is usually in the habit of asking for advice, just that the world in general is in the habit of asking […]

The One in Baguio

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After weeks of anticipation, our long-awaited joint birthday celebration for five finally pushed through. And the destination…BAGUIO! On the night of October 21, we assembled at the back of our building where our rented van was to pick all twelve of us up. When it finally arrived, we laughed in amusement at the sight. It […]

Bohol {Deetour}

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My friend Boss Ed invited me to Bohol three weeks ago, saying he’d shoulder my plane fare with his free air miles. As I wasn’t a regular employee yet at my office I had doubts that I’d be able to ask for a leave. But a free trip to Bohol was too good an offer to […]

Singing the Night Away

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Having hurdled the Nursing board exam, my brother has his eyes set on every Filipino nurse’s dream: to work abroad. But before he can do this he has to take and pass additional exams and therefore needs big-sister-in-the-city’s help in buying reviewers. So off to Recto I go with housemates Maya and Gay in tow. […]

Pagsanjan Falls {Deetour}

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Chu and his Shell buddies had a blast in Pagsanjan Falls last weekend. He had so much fun, in fact, that he wanted to go back. This time around, he invited us, his housemates. We started out by riding a bus to Sta. Cruz, Laguna. From there we rode a jeepney to Pagsanjan. Once there, […]

Longing for Long Hair

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Last Friday, I brought Gay and Maya with me to Stir Crazy, a bar where Rocky and Thom invited me. We nearly got lost but somehow we made it. The band was great, and so were our drinks – Nite, just like beer but not as bitter-icky. We took a pic of our trio and […]

Get That Ball! – a UAAP Basketball Game Story

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I am a full-blooded Atenean. And when I say that I mean I spent my entire education life (all 16 years of it) in the Ateneo in my hometown. So when Rocky invited me to watch a UAAP game last Sunday, I grabbed the chance to cheer for my alma mater’s sister school, Ateneo de […]