Adios, Blogging!

Just now, I have come to realize that I should give up blogging and stop posting my stories on the net.

I have two reasons. One, blogging lost its fun. I knew right from the start that I'd soon get tired of blogging. And two, blogging is taking away away from me something which I might miss someday - my college life.

One thing bad about me is that i don't know how to weigh priorities. Most of the time, I waste effort and hours of writing drafts for my blog posts.

So now, imma say goodbye to blogging!

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One Piece manga

Treasures and pirates, and a rubber boy who doesn't know how to swim. Seems like a weird combinations, ain't it? Well, it's all in One Piece, the record holder for highest initial print in manga history.

Monkey D. Luffy, who was once called Anchor, wants to be the greatest pirate of all the seas and obtain the greatest treasure of them all, yep, you guessed it, the One Piece.

But it was not an easy start for Luffy, apart from him having no talent at all in staying over water, the seas are full of other pirates who just want other crew ships out of their way.

With his crew - a swordsman, a navigator, a sharpshooter, a cook, a doctor, an archeologist, a shipwright, and a musician - Luffy's story is full of action, adventure, comedy and drama at points.

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Volume 1 Chapter 1

Volume 1 Chapter 2

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Volume 1 Chapter 4

Volume 1 Chapter 5

Volume 1 Chapter 6

Volume 1 Chapter 7

Volume 1 Chapter 8

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sona, fair?

If you were clapping every time the new president paused during his first ever State of the Nation Address last July 30, clearly, you weren’t thinking it over.

Yes, he said he was planning to sign his first Executive Order that would create what he called the Truth Commission, and just days ago, he didn’t fail us in his promise to do so, but would exposing the past administration’s corruption be enough to help his beloved countrymen towards the tuwid na daan that everyone around him dreams?

Exposing the truth is not all fun and sun when you don’t have anything to offer as a solution if it happens again. And to that, I don’t remember him mentioning a clear and strategic plan. On top of that, it was mostly focused on accusations.

Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio Arroyo wasn’t even wrong when he said that it sounded a campaign.

We can only expect these things to continue if the president wouldn’t show competency in his six-year stay in Malacañang.

Moreover, when he said that he’s planning to lessen the pages of application forms, I wasn’t expecting anyone to shout their hurrays and bow down to the president for a plan so great. It wasn’t a good thing to do after all.

Why, you say? It’s true when he said that “Kung walang kurap, walang mahirap.” Let’s add something more to that: “Kung walang tamad, walang mahirap.” What’s wrong with an eight-page application form, anyway? It couldn’t be called remedy when all it does is teach Filipinos to resort to laziness.

In the end, the president that fifteen million Filipinos voted for the position would never make the difference if the rest of the country wouldn’t, as he put it, join to be part of the solution.

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Battle Royale Manga

What will yo do when your professor told you that you are in a government program where you and your classmates 'should' fight each other off? Of course you wouldn't participate. But what if the chances of getting out of the program is minimal? I'm talking about being isolated in an island, being tracked down by satellites above your head, being surrounded by armies, classmates that just wanna kill other classmate and having a necklace that explodes when you try to escape covering your, errr, neck.

That's the situation that the characters of Battle Royale got into.

Adapted from a book with the same name, Battle Royale is a thrilling read that would make you wish you had other hands to cross your fingers on while you hold your manga. I've bought a copy of the book myself just so I would have something to read over and over again.

Action for the survival scenes, science fiction for the gadgets, horror for the deaths, and romance in some points. These things are waiting for you in Koushun Takami's 199-chapter manga.

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When did public become synonymous with private?

July 28, 2010 – I learned two things today; one, you shouldn’t have full trust on the education that an attorney got from his college years and two, Municipal Trial Courts and the Regional Trial Court here in the province wouldn’t show everything to you even if they say they’re public.

“So tinetesting mo kami? (So you’re testing us?)” were the last words that I heard from Atty. Steve Resari. (And I hope you happen to google your name someday and find this article written about your where-have-all-yer-education-gone statement.)

I wanted to tell him, “Dae pa obvious, sir? Kulang pa? (Did we fail to make it obvious, sir? Was that not enough?)” But my kind and reluctant self was more powerful than my aggressive and disrespectful self, so I just kept quiet about it just to save my soul from hell. If I were not that afraid to miss heaven, I would have showered him with shame as I point my finger at him while laughing in front of his officemates.

We were writing court stories for our Newswriting subject. We were journalism students. We were deprived of looking into public documents. We were treated as if we were kids who shouldn’t be told where the cookie jar is hidden. We are not. Fuck you, Office of the Clerk of Courts, Legazpi City.

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of penitence and mister donut

April 06, 2010 - Everything that happened that week was unplanned. On Wednesday night, I texted Urie that I was planning to go to Tabaco City because I didn't have anything to do the next day. That was the start of my Holy Week.

I arrived at Tabaco City at 10:30 in the evening. As I expected, the streets were still crowded by Tabaqueños though normally in other towns, people would have gone to bed in that hour. Father was waiting for me at the bus stop. When he saw me, he started scolding me like there was no tomorrow. He complained about my idea of travelling at night. I wasn't listening. In my head, I was thinking, "Yeah, this feels like home. Tomorrow will be awesome."

The next day I woke up late. Father said he's not going to give me allowance for the week. I told him I won't be back that night because I'd sleep at Urie's place.

My first stop was at Ald's. He asked me to download songs for him.

Then I waited for Urie and his brother near the church (luckily going near the chuch didn't harm me, whew, but I must tell you it was blazing hot). He then informed me he was planning to go up Mount Mayon Rest House for his penitence. It's an annual tradition for Bikolanos and other Filipinos. I was like, "Ooookay? You know how far that is, right?" With an altitude of 2500ft, who thinks it would be an easy walk?

Last year, I heard him talk about going up MMRH and he said everyone he saw was catching his breath in the first quarter of the way.

Secretly, I was objecting to the idea. I was praying, "God, please let me know he's joking," though I wasn't really sure if God would ever listen to me for I haven't visited his home for a long while then.

When it was 9 in the evening, Urie's friends started to arrive one by one. They were all excited about going while I was praying like crazy.

When the clock struck twelve, we all went outside to go to the plaza and looked for a jeepney to take us to where everyone would start walking. I only brought thirty pesos with me. Something I would regret as soon as we start heading up.

At 1am, we were inside a jeep, more than a dozen of us, side by side. The jeepney ride costed fifteen pesos (15 pesos left. i was like, "okay, rei, gudlak. i hope you survive everything with your fifteen pesos").

Then, at exactly 1:52 in the morning (it was Good Friday already), we started walking.

We were talking about anything on our way up just to entertain ourselves. From Chuck Norris jokes to (wait, all I can remember were the Chuck Norris Jokes).

We stopped to pray at Stations (14 in total).

It was already 4:15 in the morning when we reached the top. (When I get the picture on facebook, I'll put it here.)

At 8 am, we got back home and fell asleep for what felt like decades.

At 6 in the evening, we were in a procession (prusisyon). We met up at Grace's house. It was a reunion of high school friends. Irene came back home from Manila. It was our first time to see each other again for more than ten months. The last time she visited Bicol, I didn't get the chance to see her because I was at school. We talked about the outing/swimming the next day. The plan was that everyone should be in the waiting place at 7am or he would just go to the venue... ALONE.

After the procession, Irene, Urie, Harold, Ruel, Rieu and I went to Mister Donut to eat (after an hour of brainstorming about where to eat).

Then, when we were loud (because we are really loud when we're together), the manager requested us to leave because people were coming in. AND! because we're gooooood, we left. =)

(Saturday). I slept at Urie's place again. We woke up late in the morning. We woke up at 9, we were late for the outing. And, boy, we were moving like turtles on out way. Sleepy-heads, weeeee. I brought the shirt I wore the last day because I was running out of tshirts.

We saw AlDindo and Jodel halfway to the venue. We arrived at 11. Then came the diving action, the eat-like-you-haven't-eaten-for-centuries, the "hey how are ya" and the immaculate camera flashes.
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Naruto Shippuden manga

Boys, who doesn't know Uzumaki Naruto, that character in Masashi Kishimoto's famous manga turned anime series?

Wanting to be recognized in his Konohagakure village as the strongest of them all, Naruto dreams of being Hokage - the leader of the village.

Now, selling over 100 million copies in Japan alone, the manga is a pancake you would love to get a hold on.

The Naruto Shippuden series of the anime starts in the 28th volume of the manga. In the 28th volume, Naruto is back from a training with Jiraiya.

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Volume 1-27 to follow after updates

Volume 28

Volume 29

Volume 30

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