#RapSnacks -- there’s a surprising variety in the junk food and snacks that gas stations carry — I started getting these out of curiosity after rekindling my lottery habit a few… Read More

One of the more vivid recollections of my childhood was that of a Toyota Coaster, a mini bus servicing the big hotels in Legaspi— Mayon Imperial Hotel, La Trinidad Hotel and Albay Hote… Read More

This is a picture that I grabbed from the LGUTiwi FB page of the ongoing redesign and enhancement of the Plaza in front of the municipal building.What caught my attention amid the chaos of c… Read More

"Plaza Templado" was mentioned in this book by esteemed historian Danilo Madrid Gerona (also the author of "Ferdinand Magellan, The Armada de Maluco and the European Discovery of the Philipp… Read More

Tomorrow will be the inauguration of the Tiwi Town Plaza, which will be officially named Plaza Templado.The Sangguniang Bayan of Tiwi recently passed an ordinance re-affirming the name as it… Read More

👁 07242020 🎬 2020*coincidentally, while watching this film, i noticed that today was also the 5th anniversary of the tragic death of Joey, the 12-year-old son… Read More

In 1880, Gobernadorcillo* Higino Templado conceptualized and constructed Tiwi's first town plaza in order to provide the community with a wholesome place for people to gather on Sundays and… Read More

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At a sale price of $14.99 a pop, these beautiful 1/18 American muscle cars and European Supercars by Maisto at Sam’s Club were very tempting, but i managed to look away. For a die-cast… Read More

last week I finally unboxed the Ninja that had been lying around in a corner since a few months back and immediately put the machine to use — Air Roasting and Air Frying a few slabs of… Read More

I normally don’t dig salt & vinegar flavor for junk foods, but since the local Asian store ran out of my go-to Lapid chicharons, i picked up Tito Al’s Choice chicharrones str… Read More

...conked out, so I picked up a $5.99 JVC Gumy headphones from a grocery stall and it turned out perfectly serviceable Read More

for years, I’ve heard the song Chasing Cars a lot on FM radio on my regular drives back and forth from work but I never bothered to look up more about the band behind it. Then a couple… Read More

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The limited edition RUNWELL turntable by SHINOLA on display at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit. What a beauty! Read More

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fun fact: when i was a kid, i hated Bob Dylan’s voice to death. i have since better appreciated his songs and have listened to more than half of his catalogue. but i still don’t… Read More

a fairly short presentation about one of the most legendary ancestors of modern music, and his incredibly mysterious backstory Read More

i used to play this a lot back in the days growing up in Tiwi when the Beatles ruled the Radiowealth turntable at home. listening to a 45 Parlo… Read More

...some cool things that caught my eye at South Korea’s ultra-modern Incheon International Airport, one of the best airports in the world in almost every metric (including free mega fa… Read More

I bought this book for a sonnet--err song ($3) during one of my forays at a local flea market. Not bad for an 1878 illustrated edition of The Complete Works of the Bard, eh? William… Read More

Last Song Syndrome: Corey Hart's Sunglasses at Night, a song I never heard for more than 2 decades. Damn Detroit FM radio; now I got these lines stuck in my head-"Don't switch the blade on t… Read More

my old acoustic guitar, the sole witness during those rare times where i can wear my heart on my sleeve Read More

I found a long-sought soft self-comforting freedoma heart-rousing understandinggoverned not by the common reasonbut by untamed emotions Read More

in Huron river's calm watersthe kayakers at dusk stalk the setting sun, stir the proverbial potand disturb the gods Read More

My second Modiano. I read Dora Bruder back in 2004. I had no idea who Patrick Modiano was back then, but I remember very well how I managed to pick up his book, together with Amos Oz' Where… Read More

yup, i still collect (audio books, rock, operas, musicals, classics et al) and play them on a vintage player from time to time. and at 10 cents for a trip down memory lane i cannot complain… Read More

My fifth film noir of the weekend. "The stuff that dreams are made of." ~ never gets old Read More

I was on my way back to my hotel room; the place was eerily quiet -- the only audible sounds came from my footfalls -- when suddenly, I felt a rush of cold air brush against my skin; the… Read More

crazy adventures, powerful trips: booze, drugs, women and motorcycles. born to be wild Read More

after 2 episodes, i am going AWOL from watching this show. Fox should dismiss the scribes and discharge the cast. humor in uniform is dead Read More

Yoshihiro Tatsumi's 1956 thriller Black Blizzard provides us a look into his past, when he was still a raw and inexperienced writer and mangaka. Tatsumi, in several interviews, never hides t… Read More

Behind the steady finger that pulls the trigger and the sharp eye that peeks through the crosshairs are men like Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson and the enigmatic Juba, two snipers on differ… Read More

...early Sunday morning, driving on a deserted Southfield Freeway. the sun's rays are trying to break through the grey clouds' spell. Michigan in winter; beautiful and lonely Read More

Another day, another wasted day. Another rotten day has passed,  spent in this dark old  room, an abyss where not a sliver of light, have penetrated its four corners for ages … Read More

"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air." - John Webster *Troy Marriott/Troy Michigan Read More

The Mackinac Bridge: the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere, connecting the two peninsulas of Michigan Read More

*old books found while tidying up my man cave Read More

To the uninitiated this is a peek into the evil that these people do. But to the initiated, this is nothing new since most of the stories and trivia in this book are old and a re-hash from o… Read More

  Madness: just woke up from more than 10 hours of gallivanting in dreamland after watching the entire Season 3 of Mad Men the night before Read More

bite the bullet, taste the bloodfeel your heart, beating deep insidecount the pulse, shake off your fearsignore the call, calm the nervescheck the sight, aim the gunsteady the finger, squeez… Read More

"The joke about Nazi racial theory- The ideal superman of the master race would be as blond as Hitler, as lean as Göring, and as tall as Goebbels."The novel is set in the Greek city o… Read More

She satthere in the cubicle, with eyes closed trying to drown out the cries of tortured souls thatstill rang in her ears and the pungent odorof billowsof smoke… Read More

If we have people like Jack Morgan and his investigation company in our midst, then most criminals will find it hard to sleep at night with the fear of being exposed in the backs of their h… Read More