Contact Eldon I got my serious hat on. In light of recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, I’ve fielded a few queries from friends here in the Philippines that, interestingly enough, have all asked pretty much the same essential question: “If there’s freedom of speech in America, how could those guys get fired from their jobs?” […]
Contact Eldon I wear a hearing aid. These things pick up a LOT of stuff you wouldn’t know I can hear. They sometimes don’t pick up what the person I’m actually talking to is saying, but some of those low key secretive murmurings amongst yourselves from somewhere behind me? Blackmail time! Recently, there was one […]
Contact Eldon This is what I call a “no morals” story. No, not that kind of immorality, so apologies for getting your hopes up, just one of those meandering memories that somewhat reveal a “daily life” snapshot of how things used to be, not leading up to any dramatic “And the moral of the story […]
Contact Eldon Thirty-four years ago, I left the Philippines. It was May 1983, to be exact, the end of summer after high school. I went on my way to the States, for college. The plan was simple: school, then back to the homeland. Didn’t quite work out that way. Well, now that I think about […]
First Published 2012 @ Braintropolis “Honey, I’m pregnant!” Probably one of the shortest sentences in the world that can turn the hardiest of men into wide-eyed caricatures of deer in headlights. Unless that man happens to be in his early 40s and who, for a few years, has managed to pull off a dream work-at-home-wearing-whatever-he-darned-well-wants-to-wear […]
First Published 2012 @ Braintropolis Reality TV. A genre about as broad and fuzzy as, well, TV programming. I never really could figure out why Survivor was called Reality TV, for instance. I mean, what’s so real about it? Oh, when I heard its premise for the very first time, you betcha it was intriguing. […]
First Published 2012 @ Braintropolis Why not? Because, dear reader, we — OK, I — will tend to fixate and obsess on something so totally unromantic and will likely ruin the whole damn thing for you, that’s why. Here are two examples from my not so recent past. Needless to say, spoiler alert! Although, these movies came […]
First Published 2011 @ Braintropolis I graduated High School when I was 16 back in 1983 in the Philippines. I wanted to go to college there (life was good!), but my father had other ideas, unceremoniously packing and sending me off to school here early May of that year. Bummer, really, what with summer back […]
First Published 2011 @ Braintropolis Third grade was an interesting one for me at Bene. It was the year I “skipped a grade” and was moved up to be with a 4th grade class. Six of us had that privilege — three boys and three girls — and I think all six ended up with more of […]
First Published 2011 @ Braintropolis My boy Daniel just turned 3 a couple of weeks ago. Birthday party, of course. I was pushing for Chuck E. Cheese, but his mom won out and we had his party at home. It started raining, so we had to move all activities indoors, including piñata whacking. Guess who […]