OK. There was so much going on at work lately and I was also busy rekindling my romantic obsession with UPLB. In fact, I still haven’t recovered from my org’s activity last Saturday that ended the way it usually does: dozens of beer bottles inside and outside a small apartment, and several wasted bodies scattered all over the floor. More on that activity in a later post. Anyway, the point is I didn’t have the time to geek out on the web last week so I have yet to catch up on the latest news and rumors in the comic book world. So this week, I’m going straight to my weekly haul. And I’ll be doing it short and sweet. SPOILERS! I think.

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Awtor: Ireneo Perez Catilo
pahina: 200

Ang awtor ay isang retiradong arkitektong nakabase sa London. Nagsimula sa pahina ng magasing Liwayway. At isa sa mabungang manunulat sa wikang Filipino. Ang kanyang mga kuwento, bagamat matagal na panahon na siyang naninirahan sa London ay nagtataglay pa rin ng tingkad ng katutubong kulay. Sa ngayon ay nasa London at tinatapos ang kanyang unang nobelang may pamagat na “PINAGHAWANAN, Nobela ng Isang Nayon” na ayon sa batikang manunulat na si Dr. Domingo G.Landicho ay magiging mahalagang nobela sa kasaysayan ng panitikang Filipino.

Kung saan makabibili ng kopya ng Pandesal: mag-email sa: dsmeneses@yahoo.com

Mayroon ka bang kuwento? Isa ka bang manunulat? At pakiramdam mo ay nag-iisa ka at wala kang karamay sa tuwing nakararamdam ka ng panghihina ng loob at pagdududa sa iyong talento? O ikaw ba ay isang henyo, isang mahusay na manunulat na bukas ang palad na tumulongo magbahagi ng iyong karunungan at kaalaman sa sining ng malikhaing pagsulat. Puwes, may kalalagyan ka sa katinigwriters yahoogroup!!! Mag-email sa katinig_online@yahoo.com o bumisita sa www.katinig.com.ph. para sa ibang katanungan.

Ang Katinig ay isang samahan ng mga manunulat sa wikang sarili na kinabibilangan ng mga mahuhusay namanunulat gaya nina Domingo G. Landicho, Rey A. Duque, Francisco Sigua, Lamberto Antonio, Danilo Meneses, Ireneo P. Catilo, Remi Alva, Ruel Garcia Enoya, Purple C. Romero, Gexter Lacambra, Billy Antonio, Lamberto Cabual, Rose Flores Martinez, at marami pang ibang pawang mga nagwagi ng mga gantimpala sa pagsusulat ng maikling kuwento.

Mga Siraniko
Global Warming
Lost in Translation?
Badings on Film
Bombayin
Bastos na Patatas

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In four and a half years, we compared pics of Hannah in the same scenario. See them HERE.

Below is the latest apploads at my Praise and Worship Christian Lyrics blog.

Picture source : www.worshipmusic.com

Album Release Date: 1997

Label: Hosanna!

Genres: Contemporary Christian

Song List

1. CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS
2. ABOVE ALL ELSE
3. WE DECLARE THAT THE KINGDOM
4. VICTORY CHANT
5. THE LORD IS COME
6. THE LORD OUR GOD IS WITH US
7. THE LORD REIGNS
8. THE LORD REIGNS (Reprise)
9. UNTO YOU
10. I STAND IN AWE
11. I WILL MAGNIFY
12. HE IS LOVELY

God bless you all !!!

It could be the unusually dark coffee I had this morning that made me decide to finally write. I looked around for a while until I finally decided to settle with a Philippine based blog. Philippines, oh my Philippines!..my beloved Philippines….Why did you ever let me go!!!
I am now thousands of miles away, in a totally different world I never thought I’d be. But if you ask me if I’m happy, I’d say yes, yes I’m happy. Is there happiness in war, I don’t believe so, but happiness is what I call inner peace. I am an American Soldier, born and raised in the Philippines, moved to California, fell asleep and woke up in the arms of Uncle Sam, now I’m in Iraq, trying to keep my sanity and inner peace as I live and breath my second country’s war. And I hate to be here.

As the body changes with age, sexual response changes, too. In other words, if you expect to react like newlyweds in the bodies of 50- to 90-year-olds, you may become frustrated and unhappy. But, if you learn to go with the flow and adjust and adapt to the changes in your body, sex can be fulfilling. Sex in the young is fast and furious. But older people need to grow in sexual sophistication and find new vistas of sexual satisfaction. Sex can be expanded to a richer experience that will compensate for the deficits of older people. The message is clear:

ACCEPT THE CHANGES: An older man can still be athletic, but he no longer expects to break Olympic records. The sexual adjustment is really no different from the overall adjustment that we all have to make to the fact that time has a certain impact on our bodies.

With age, the circulatory flow lessens; the muscles relax. Men have more difficulty attaining and maintaining an erection. Erections may be softer and at a less upright angle. A little more time for stimulation may cure this problem.

A woman usually has reduced vaginal lubrication after menopause, which may cause irritation during intercourse. Estrogen and/or the use of lubricating gels can prevent this problem.

Changes in attractiveness such as weight gain, wrinkles, loss of muscle tone, and physical disabilities often make arousal more difficult. A change of focus from physical to mental and spiritual will help. Also a longer period devoted to a prelude of lovemaking and loving words helps.
CHANGE THE ROUTINE: When the children are gone and the couple is alone in the home, why must sex be postponed until the eleventh hour of the night. Why not early mornings? Why not weekend afternoons?
Innovations–for some, sex in a different surrounding is stimulating and highly desirable. Why not read a good book on techniques and positions and try some. We recommend Fundamentals of Human Sexuality by Dr. Herant Katchadourian.

Fantasy–making up stories costs nothing if it doesn’t disrupt the relationship. If the partner perceives the fantasy as a hidden wish–today you talk about it, tomorrow you do it–it can become threatening and unacceptable. But if a fantasy helps, use it.

Change roles–If the man has always been the sexual aggressor, try a shift in roles. The goal is to please each other; talk it over and make your plans.

USE IT OR LOSE IT: The most important factor in keeping sexually active is keeping sexually active. You do this by doing it. If we stop eating, the desire for food may go away; it will come back when we start eating, whether we like it or not.

Keep the body in the best shape possible. Good nutritious food and physical exercise–whether you feel like it or not–will keep the body active.

Keep your mind alert and well. Read and study on a regular basis and report to someone what you have read; it will keep your mind in good shape.

Maintain your habits of worship and do things for other people. When my wife’s mother was 92 years old she opened a thrift shop to sell things to help the old folks. Helping people is a key, believe it or not, to a fulfilling sex life in the elderly.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Sexual preference is as variable as culture and food habits. One man’s poison is another man’s food. The bottom-line suggestion is to please each other. If you are not pleasing each other, then talk about sex, read and study it, take some counsel from a licensed sex therapist, adapt and change a little until both partners are pleased. Sometimes a partner complains about the other person as an excuse to find another contact. Don’t let this happen–take care of each other’s needs.

Veronica Baluyot-Jiminez
tv host, NBN 4

We spent a fortune on a Mac and I still write by hand in cheap 50 cent notebook diaries with cutie figures of little pigs or teddy bears… go figure. But since last year when Mom sent me handmade notebook covers, I have revived writing by hand. I write my diary as well as draft my blog entries in these notebooks.

“Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.”

- Natalie Goldberg

Our apartment has two bedrooms. Every evening at around nine, or whenever I feel like it, I retire into the second bedroom and sit on the big wooden desk. This wooden desk is one of my favorite pieces of furniture that come with our fully-furnished apartment. It’s wide and spacious in French colonial style with metal latches and gold inlay on its two drawers. This is my ME time and the desk in the second room is where I write. By hand. In notebook diaries. Away from the television set. Away from the stereo. Most especially, away from the computer. Quiet. No multi-tasking. Just me, my pen, my notebook and this wooden desk. And then some.

Read more in Toe’s Kurokuroatbp.

Sa mga 18 years old dyan at sa mga 18 years nang bumoboto dyan, naka-decide na ba kayo kung sino iboboto niyo? Ako hindi pa, kasi hindi ko alam kung may matino pang mga kandidato sa mga panahon ngayon. Basa ka pa

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The effect is catastrophic: stronger storms, typhoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions; more occurance of floods; unpredictable weather; forest fires and heatwave; droughts and famine; extinction of species; food supply depletion; massive refugees; water supply shortage, wars for supplies… I could go on and on. All in all, if the warming continues in the next few decades, Antarctica, and Greenland would melt, and this would be the end of some countries – Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, San Francisco Bay, Netherlands, Shanghai, Calcutta, Bangladesh, Fiji, the Bahamas and other low-lying areas such as those of Pacific islands would be flooded with sea water and wipe out of the map.

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is it mik who is helping me out of this? i decided to have a friendly dinner with him last wednesday night, and ever since then, he tries to see me everyday. no naughty stuff, so things aren’t as confusing. i’ve been so busy with work this weekend that i hardly had any real time to dwell on joe…and mik tried to spend as much time with me as he could.

Naisip ko lang…yung mga pangyayari sa buhay ko halos lahat may soundtrack. Pati ang mga taong nagbigay kulay at nagtanggal ng kulay (meron bang ganun?) sa buhay ko, meron silang theme song lahat. Yun bang pag narinig mo yung kanta alam mong sya yun. O kaya eh alam mo kung ano ang pangyayari habang yun ang tinutugtog. [...]

Today is a good day for me and my blog. We got featured in the March 5th issue of the Manila Bulletin for the Blog-O-Rama section.

I haven’t seen the print version yet coz as you know I’m here in California. I’ve asked my parents back in the Philippines to get copies of today’s paper. I’m not sure and correct me if I’m wrong but I think the print version is more complete than the online version.

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He was 16, two years my senior, when we met each other. We called each other “bez” – short for best friend – simply because we were. He was the chic-magnet who could stir up a hurricane (maangas, in short), and I was the guy-repelling fat girl who was an annoying smartass. The differences didn’t end there, but then, they didn’t matter much to us. We complemented each other’s personality. Ours was a relationship void of any romantic sparks — though the others thought otherwise.

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Manny Villar ascended into the Philippine Senate with the slogan “Sipag at Tiyaga” (”Hard work and Perseverance”), but it seems he is merely describing what we need to appreciate his website. Find out why at Standard Web Standards (http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=159)

Review medical education in the country. Make it more affordable, responsive to community health needs and we support Sen. Ralph Recto’s proposal: Create more PMAs or Philippine Medical Academy

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Veronica Baluyot-Jiminez, we hope you are reading this or someone tells you about this. You are without a doubt the worse host on TV! You leave people feeling cold and even dirty. We have no idea how you are kept on air when you are obviously not a personality we can sympathize with. Despite your obvious years in journalism, apparent in your age that you have been broadcasting since the 1960s, you are not one day closer to finding any sort audience. Please do the Filipino TV viewing public the favor of leaving our airwaves forever.

We know all your secrets, Miss Nikki.

What do you think?

Those crazy Japs are at it again! This time, though, I’m not too sure if this should be considered more of a sex toy rather than a gadget. Whatever. Either way, say hello to the nifty-kinky Angel Kitty french maid USB keyboard. The costume comes with a built-in silicon keyboard for your girlfriend to wear and for you to actually use with your Windows computer. And here’s how it’s going to look like on your computer table. (continued at diss-anything.blogspot.com)