Let’s have some interactive post here. Let me call it “Blogrolling A-Z.” Your task is to give me the “exact URL” , “exact title” and a “little info” of your blog through comments and I will update this post for you, and I will link your blog. And it will will end as soon as A to Z is complete.

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Testing out Smart 3G on my laptop..

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This is just my way of saying thank you to those who participated in the discussion (for the October posts)– who spoke their minds and/or simply gave their appreciation. I believe more ideas will still come and help the readers come up with their own conclusion of the issues discussed.

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One way to thank my commenters or visitors is to link them on my post at least once a week, any day I want. I am doing this because I don’t have much time to reply back. But I’m always trying my best to comment back as much as I can.

If you think you’ve been there and haven’t linked you, just drop me a line and I will do it. I don’t have problems with that.

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This has been a familiar sight for the past 6 months. It’s already dawn and I’m all set - all set to go home.

If sodomy amongst the Chinese was indeed a major dilemma as chronicled by the friars — inciting some archbishops of Manila to lodge formal complaints in the king’s court in Spain — how come Jose Rizal, always cognizant of every peculiar habit or frailty among the inhabitants of the colonial archipelago, never assigned any of his characters or created a group of characters inclined to practice sodomy? Neither was homosexuality ever mentioned in any of his writings despite what would have been common knowledge at that time about the unusual inseparable relationship between Legazpi and Urdaneta (dating back to the days of their youth).

It’s highly unlikely that our national hero was prudish and grew up oblivious to sexual matters. According to the memoirs of his grandniece, Asuncion Lopez-Rizal Bantug (Indio Bravo), Rizal possessed an intellect far advanced for his age; and that his first love was for a 14-year-old Segunda Katigbak when he was fifteen. At seventeen, Rizal was deeply enamored for a young girl who was merely twelve years old — Leonor Rivera, whom he later immortalized as Maria Clara. Rizal also lived in a dormitory in Intramuros full of older boys while attending Ateneo as a very young boy. And with boys being boys, surely lots of talks about sex went on before and after lights out — enough for the young Rizal to pick up a thing or two about carnal matters.

Anyone keen on sociology and anthropology may point out that homosexuality and pedophilia are not exclusively of modern phenomenon. Why then would Rizal choose to exclude from his writings the socio-psychological impact of which in nineteenth-century Philippines? Yet, on the other hand, he wrote extensively about the friars’ sexual proclivities with the native women; a gobernadorcillo who was later to become an opium addict; and an Indio woman, simply because she married a Spaniard (and a hapless wretch at that), had become disdainful of anything Indio, and hid not her contempt for her own kind and roots.

Other than just ascribe his death to the intense physical torture he endured, Crispin, the altar boy, could’ve been written a victim of sexual abuse as well. The character of Filosopo Tasio could have been created as a flamboyant homosexual whose sarcastic wit made his philosophical insight even more intriguing; and the loss of his inherited wealth to be blamed to his having fallen madly in love with a strikingly handsome mestizo hustler.

Is it possible then that the reason Rizal chose to omit these certain undesirable social elements from his writings was because it might call undue attention to his own vulnerability as an unmarried, highly-creative individual? And in so doing, run the risk of being rumored a closet case himself?

Notwithstanding, to borrow from Jerry Springer: Just because it’s unpleasant and embarrassing, it doesn’t mean we ought to look the other away and ignore it altogether.

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Drug Study: ACALKA

GENERIC NAME:
Potassium Citrate

BRAND NAME:
Acalka

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….until December 22.

“sins have been committed, i should be ashamed for the crimes which i didn’t do.”

know the reason behind at the dubai chronicles

Have a look-see of the sausages of the world and of course, my specialty here…

Random photos I found interesting at the Zoo… All from “point and shoot(?)” Panasonic-LX1…

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Thought for the day:

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~ Dr. Seuss

Have a peaceful All Saints’ Day!

“Come on down”, that’s one of the most familiar phrase on TV. Bob Barker, host of TV’s “The Price is Right” is retiring after 50 years in television.

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Sinumang ibig magpahatid ng liham sa kaluluwa ng isang taong namatay na ay walang tanging dapat gawin kundi:

Una: Lahat ng liham na ipadadala ay dapat sulatin at lagdaan sa maghapon na ika-31 na Oktubre.
Ikalawa: Bawa’t liham ay kailangang isilid sa isang sobre, hiwalay sa iba.
Ikatlo: Sa hatinggabi, ganap na ika-12 oras ng bisperas ng “Todos los Santos”…

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