Overheard while waiting aboard a Buendia jeepney this morning:
Woman: Mama, dadaan ba tong ano…
Jeepney Driver: saan?
Woman: Sa ano… (long, incoherent Visayan mumbling)
Jeepney Driver: ano?
Woman: Sa embahada ba?! (slightly vexed)
Jeepney Driver: embahada ng?
Woman: NG PILIPINAS!!!
I swear I did not make this up.
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Proud to declare that my Ping Medina obsession is officially over.
Unfortunately, I’m currently obsessed with Conrado de Quiros, after seeing him on television.
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Just found an absolutely heavenly shop (kiosk, actually) called “Branded”. Got myself a TVJ shirt. Ha Ha Ha. Oh glee! Would have gotten the “Sgt. Pepe” design but it was in faded lemony yellow, which is technically also my natural skin tone.
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Just finished Ha Jin’s “War Trash”. Initially, I thought it was rather biased against China. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The novel was very well-written, extremely intelligent, rather gritty, at times dragging but always honest.
Craving Asian authors as of the moment.
That sounded carnivorous.
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Still don’t know if I passed AS299 aka Research Methods under the dragon lady herself, MADAM JUNG (aliases are necessary for my survival). Will probably know before the world ends.
