A typhoon passes through the city today and we find ourselves awash with grey and dreary skies. Not exactly the best weather to find oneself in a few days before the nation commemorates the day when we remember loved ones now gone. All Soul’s Day (November 1) is fast approaching and in the Philippines, everyone who has lost a loved one stops to pay respect to the one who has gone ahead, back to their REAL HOME.

Allow me for a moment to remember read the poem here…

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Gusto mo ng burger ngayon at naglalaway ka na. Ano pa kaya kapag napanood mo na ang TV ad na ito, mas maeengganyo ka… o hindi. Read more…

Raven goes wakeboarding (skateboarding in H2O while being towed by a high-speed boat) and has dinner and a movie with three famous Japanese singer/actresses here in Taiwan!

More and lots of pictures at http://www.ravencrows.blogspot.com/

Here’s to living life in Taiwan!

It’s been two weeks since I last participated as a live audience inside the Philippine Idol Studio and I missed the energy of being in the live audience. read more?

Just in time for Halloween. Too bad its still in concept.

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The Webbies

The Man Blog has been nominated for the 9^th Annual Philippine Web Awards. Of course it was. TMB is fokking awesome. It’s so awesome in fact that little children have been known to experience their first orgasms upon reading any of its awesome posts…

Dashmedia Network

Songs of the Salamander has been chosen as part of the first batch of blogs in Dashmedia Network. The short of it is this: Dashmedia is a network of blogs that don’t suck. Which is why your blog isn’t part of it. Click on this link and fokk off…

AWESOMENESS IS NOT CONTAGIOUS SO FOKK OFF

Someone hates me. Yaaay! This one comes from one of my old Songs of the Salamander articles, The Misogynist’s Guide to Dating Part I: Rape. And I quote the fokktard:

What a bunch of horsesh!t. This blog blows. You can’t justify anything written here. It’s hogwash, horsepuckey, and utter irrelevant nonsense!

Why God created beings such as you is only [sic] a mystery. You are as screwy as that a$$ who created The Best Page in the Universe, calling himself Maddox. He was the biggest a$$ in the world to me [sic], but now….

To answer your question about God’s mysterious ways: God made me to tell dumb fokks like you how much He hates you and how He’s going to give you cancer for Christmas…

EPIC RANT HERE

The nastiest bunch of internet retards in this steaming pile of Third World shiznit called the Philippines just came up with a new scheme to exploit women!

The hottest gang of rising internet rockstars came up with a novel way to feature the beauty of women over at The Man Blog. What’s in it for you? Well, do the words TEN THOUSAND PESOS and SHOPPING SPREE ring any bells? Yeah, I bet they do. So what are you ladies waiting for? Details HERE!

THE BLIND SEE AND THE LAME WALK. THIS LINK IS TRULY MIRACULOUS!

The Batasan Hills are alive with the sound of Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel’s music.

Lame pun. Can’t help it, though. You see, that’s Risa Hontiveros right there in the picture, third from left, decades before she became the fiery Akbayan party-list representative in Congress. Just 14 years old in 1980, she played one of Captain Von Trapp’s seven children in Repertory Philippines’ stellar production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” directed by the late Bibot Amador.

Consider the other cast members: (from left) Menchu Lauchengco (now Yulo, then 17 and playing Liesl), Raymond Lauchengco (14, honing his chops for “Bagets” and “Farewell” a few years down the road), Javier Arriaga (10), Monique Wilson (10), Lea Salonga (9), and Angela Adams (5). Baby Barredo was Maria, Chito Ponce Enrile was Captain Von Trapp, Celia Diaz Laurel was the Baroness Schraeder, Freddy Santos was Max Detweiler, Irma Potenciano was the Mother Abbess and Audie Gemora was Rolf (the love-struck young Nazi who duets with Liesl on “I Am Sixteen”).

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Weather is one of the hardest subjects to photograph here in the tropics because the skies here is more unpredictable than other part of the globe. Storms come and go, and it can either spoil a photo trip or reward you with perfect scenes to capture. I rarely take weather photos like this, but I hope to do more in the future.
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Lately, I have noticed that my English grammar has suffered quite a bit. I used to be able to spot errors instantaneously, be it verbal or written. Now, it takes a few seconds before it registers in my brain. Sometimes, I don’t even notice it at all.

Continue reading at Ir-ruminations…

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I’m going to post today the lyrics and chords of one of my favorite Japanese songs, Planetarium by Ai Otsuka. Planetarium in turn is a theme song of one of my favorite Japanese drama series, Hana Yori Dango.

With lyrics and chords.

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We watched The Prestige last Thursday. My primary reason for seeing it was of course Hugh Jackman (my companion’s was Scarlett Johansson and her “twins” hehe). Anyway, in the tradition of Cyberpunk’s So-Called Movie Life, I liked it.

The Prestige is a steampunk movie about two magicians, Robert Angier (played by Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (played by Christian Bale). They start out as apprentices to an older magician, along with Angier’s wife Julia (Piper Perabo) and Cutter (Michael Caine).

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Costumes are always the best part of Halloween.

As a child in the 70s, Halloween wasn’t really such a big deal. Trick or treat was something we just read about in books and Halloween parties was confined to the movies or television. Well, times have certainly changed and Manila has become very western in its practice of Halloween traditions… more Halloween and Halloween photos here….

She performed well last night with her rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Siguro nga Star Scholar pa siya for that performance. However, she got automatically nominated for next week’s expulsion night because she got the lowest grade of 68.63 in their midterm exams. This is her 3rd time to ne nominated.

Pinoy Dream Academy Blog

our marriage is a lie….

the dubai chronicles

Life’s Cycle

It’s all about falling down and getting up.

Ivan’s Chinese Cemetery walking tour this Saturday — Mounds, Magnates and Mausoleum — was to benefit the Museum Foundation of the Philippines. It was a pleasure to have met fellow members, including its executive director, Tricia Limon.

The Chinese Cemetery is surprisingly full of history and the architecture of its grand mausoleums are quite incredible. It was, indeed, a great tour just in time for the upcoming All Soul’s Day.

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