Contact Eldon I was not even a whole month into my sixth year when President Marcos declared Martial Law. It was impossible not to notice—the world ended. My world, that is. My six-year-old preschooler’s world. It was the only world I noticed and knew anything about, after all. Read this post in its entirety at […]
Contact Eldon Got this image the other day on Facebook, as it made the rounds. It really doesn’t need much in the way of commentary — the narcissism and indifference to others is quite clear, nor is it uncommon behavior hereabouts, apparently. But seeing something like this always brings back this memory: When I was […]
Contact Eldon Let me tell you a little story. OK, it’s not so much a story but stuff I know and remember. You all know Apple’s Steve Jobs, right? Of course you do. Met the guy in the early 90s, while I was screwing around at being a computer industry journalist. This was during his […]
Contact Eldon Do you find it difficult to tell the new Php5 coin apart from its PHP1 sibling? Well, you must be a stupid head then, implies the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). In a recent Entrepreneur Philippines post, the BSP gave three reasons why it’s butt-easy to tell the damn coins apart: “1. The […]
Contact Eldon Please pass this on. If it helps even just one kid out of a difficult situation, then it was well worth the time and effort to write it. — EES “Kids face so many dangers now,” said a friend during a Facebook Messenger exchange. She’s a mother of a teen, and my oldest […]
Contact Eldon The last time I actually tried cooking anything that didn’t involve a microwave was back in the States, and that was months ago. I guess I’ve just been lucky enough to have someone else do the actual cooking; that there’s no shortage of good, inexpensive cooked meals to buy in this part of the […]
Contact Eldon 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?” Ah, asking the important questions… […]
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 […]
