Category: Reflections and Humor
Pee for a Fee

I went to Manila last week. The travel was hellish, as traffic and the scorching heat combined their powers to torment travelers like me. A sound was echoing inside my head, “am I already in hell?”
When I arrived in Pasay area, I immediately looked for the nearest comfort room (yes, Filipinos use comfort room [...]

By elmot with 2 comments
The Cost of Winning the 6/55 Grand Lotto Jackpot

The grand lotto frenzy has taken the Philippines instantaneously by storm as millions of Filipinos from all social strata lined up to get a crack at the more than P700 million jackpot, the highest in Philippine lotto history.
And the bad news for all those who gambled, one bettor from Luzon is by now smiling from ear to ear on his [...]

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How to Win the 6/55 Grand Lotto Jackpot of 408 Million Pesos on Saturday

The jackpot prize of the 6/55 Grand Lotto is estimated by the PCSO or the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to reach P408 million on Saturday night.  This will be a big jump from the last jackpot of more than 380 million pesos.
This is also the biggest lotto jackpot in Philippine history that even Senators and plunderers are lining up to [...]

By elmot with 10 comments
The Odd Thing About The No Smoking Sign on Jeepney

Another blog post about jeepney and hopefully this one will not really paint the obvious picture that I am one big jeepney fan, not to mention that my father actually fed his family out of sweating it out on the steering wheel 6 days a week.
Well, weeks a go I shared about my love of choosing to be on the [...]

By elmot with 5 comments
Grinning on Green Jokes

A good number of people love green jokes.
As verdant as green fields are the minds of many people on spontaneously injecting green jokes on cozy conversations with friends.
Count me in; a good part of my brain is green.
I love green jokes during casual conversations with close friends and during exchange of text messages with co-workers.  These jokes tickle my fancy [...]

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Front Seat Ride

Ah, been out of posts here on my blog for quite a time.  Maybe got too overwhelmed with other writing obligations.  Nonetheless I am back to share a story.
On my way home days ago, I waited for a jeepney just outside our university.  Tired, swollen muscles and smelling like a dead meat, I waited and waited.  Just like most Pinoys, [...]

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Is This What We’re Paying Iggy Arroyo in Congress? (Photo)

He is part of the (not-so)Fantastic Four of the Congress of the Philippines:  Rep. Iggy Arroyo of the Fifth District of my province Negros Occidental.  The other not-so-fantastic Arroyo villains are the matriarch Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga, Datu Arroyo of Camarines and Mikey Arroyo of a Partylist group.
So what are they exactly doing in Congress?  Here is a snap shot [...]

By elmot with 9 comments
Aswang in the City

My mother from Bacolod visited me and my family here in Cavite weeks ago.  It was a great to time to get in touched with a family member you love so much.  It was only last year that I had a two-week vacation in the province but that seems like decades already and you are already longing to go back [...]

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A Serious Analysis of How Binay Has Overtaken Roxas on the VP Race
A Serious Analysis of How Binay Has Overtaken Roxas on the VP Race

The battle for the vice-presidency on the May 2010 elections makes people hold on to their seat and the top two candidates asking their cardiologists to be always on stand-by.
Binay and Roxas are still battling it out while Noynoy Aquino is reported to be relaxing in Hacienda Luisita puffing his Marlboro classics 2 sticks per minute.  Sister Kris Aquino is [...]

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When Ultra-distant Relatives Ruin Your New Year’s Eve
When Ultra-distant Relatives Ruin Your New Year’s Eve

Happy New Year once again guys!
How was your New Year?  Surely, everyone now is so busy as the holiday vacation abruptly comes to an end and our desks are already waiting for us to work our ass out and replenish are busted wallets and soaring credit card dues.
Going back, how was your New Year?  Complete fingers eh?
Permit me to have [...]

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