Wanderlust and Getting a Passport

After going to Negros twice within a week a month ago almost, I realized I’d like to ride the plane again, again and again. Babaw ba? Okay, let me rephrase that, I realized I want to travel abroad, resources and the DFA permitting, embassies too if visas are required.
So on Monday I’ll go to the [...]

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Robinsons Savings Bank Katipunan

To say I am dismayed is an understatement.
A few minutes ago, I sent the maid to deposit a check. She came back and said she left it with the guard who didn’t let her in because there was no one around.
I called the bank’s two numbers: 4265604 and 9204018. The former rang forever, the latter [...]

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From my inbox: Fr. Reuter’s last column piece

Fr. Reuter wrote his last column in The Philippine Star today, May 20,1009. For those who have not read it – read on . He ended with a beautiful prayer in the end.
AT 3 a.m. (by James B. Reuter) HOPING WE WILL BE ONE, FOREVER
I am in Our lady of Peace Hospital, [...]

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Tutees

Yesterday, I saw the name of the wife of a former tutee on Facebook. So I sent her a message and asked that she add me because I wanted to see her baby’s pictures. I also asked how my tutee was as a husband and father and said I hoped he was a good one.
Wow, [...]

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Newspapers on Sundays

More often than not, I get the Inquirer and Philippine Star. And the first thing I check is if the magazines are present. Many a time, I have bought newspapers – either or both– that didn’t have their magazines along. And that peeves me. Because the first thing I read on Sundays are the columns [...]

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Saturday – Mercury is (was?) in retrograde

Mercury’s being in retrograde – I had to write that because of some incidents with the maids but I’d rather not dwell on that. The fact though also manifest itself in some ways, not big time, in the rest of my day yesterday.
At 9 hied off to Dita Sandico Ong’s atelier in Wilson Street Greenhills. [...]

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Kris Bernal

A few minutes ago, in her afternoon soap, she came into the sala in a short yellow dress. She bent over to kiss the baby on the sofa, her back turned to the camera. Her underwear almost showed. Even if it didn’t, I found the scene offensive, careless, both on the part of Kris and [...]

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My Passport and I

Back in 1982 or a little later, I saw my passport which I last used in 1980. I was disabled by the time (1982) and thought I would no longer have use for it. So along with the other papers that I thought I should discard, I did the same with my passport. I thought [...]

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Odds and Ends for the nth time

Last week, I had ex-maid get the following from NSO in East Avenue: my son’s birth certificate, my own birth certificate and my marriage contract. I specified in the authorization letter that the first two should be corrected versions.
This morning, as stipulated by NSO, maid went back to get the documents. My birth certificate wasn’t [...]

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Sandy’s Pizza 721 8329

Yesterday, on our way home from Shang, saw balloons surrounding the entrance of a door in one of the buildings along Katipunan Drive almost near Santolan. I looked and saw it was Sandy’s Pizza. yes, the Sandy’s Pizza thing that was formerly in Arellano Street San Juan only.
This a.m., after mass, I thought we should [...]

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