Category: Reflections and Humor
The Blogger Who Showered Me With Stars
The Blogger Who Showered Me With Stars

There is no other wish a newbie blogger sends up to his “star” at night than to have his own self-hosted blog.  And you could consider it a shower of falling stars if a generous blogging buddy would just appear out of nowhere to say, “Hey, I have glass shoes for you”…Ooops, that is Cinderella.  Rather, he may whisper “Hey, [...]

By elmot with 63 comments
From Hate List to Wish List In Driving
From Hate List to Wish List In Driving

This is a guest post by blogging buddy Doc Z of zorlone. Here he shares his observations, commentaries and frustrations on his daily travel on the streets of the congested Metro Manila.
Question: What are the things I hate to see on the road on my way to work?
Answer:
1. While backing up, motorcycles and jeepneys would rush behind me.
2. Pedestrians [...]

By elmot with 122 comments
I Can’t Understand Why Politicians Say the Darndest Things?
I Can’t Understand Why Politicians Say the Darndest Things?

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I don’t know what to write today. And it sucks! Truly.
Browsed over my favourite blogs on my overcrowded reader reading a post about a scandalous photoshoped picture of Miley Cyrus blowing a big candle (sorry I am not going to give you the link to save you from damnation LOL!); opened news sites crying of Imelda’s poverty and [...]

By elmot with 41 comments
The Quickieblogger.com or the Superveryhandsomeblogger.com?
The Quickieblogger.com or the Superveryhandsomeblogger.com?

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Yehey! Independence Day! It is a holiday and many of us surely will celebrate our moments of liberation from work and academics with a short vacation over the weekend or flock the nearest malls to cool off ourselves and enjoy a whole day of window shopping happy meals.
I know, I know, let us revere this day. Hear [...]

By elmot with 25 comments
Elmot’s List of Ten Emerging Influential Blogs 2009!

image from beboI can’t believe it, but this is actually my 100 and first post since I started blogging. Wow! Now, I am hearing throngs of my screaming fans…somewhere. And if I could only twist some arms from blogger.com or I was just plainly a tech genius that could find ways to escape the natural talent of [...]

By elmot with 41 comments
Beware: Manny Pacquiao is a Spook!

I am not joining the caravan of Star Treck fever despite shattering the box office record of the Knight on its first day.  Hey, what could Batman do against all these aliens and semi-humans (Are they? Whatever.) speeding their way from one galaxy to another on their gigantic cockroach-like space ships sporting their very funny shining bangs?  And I thought [...]

By elmot with 24 comments
Don’t Tell Me I Don’t Value My Family!

This post is a continuation of the active discussion on my post entitled “The Grand Engagement of Romance and Politics“, with special attention to the issue of the Eastern views of the Western’s valuing of the family, more specifically on the American Family.
I don’t presume to judge other cultures’ ideas of family. It irks me when people outside the U.S. [...]

By elmot with 54 comments
A Sold Out Senate Boxing, Wresting and Shooting Match

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The once refuge of the people through its perceived inner sanctum despite the pervading immoralities of corruption, cheating and lies in the government has become a laughing stock of the people. This place may not be a place of holies of holies nonetheless, the public so long been thirsting for transparency, accountability and the elusive truth found [...]

By elmot with 6 comments
The Father That I Have Come to Love

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I really appreciate all of you my blogger friends for all your prayers and affection to what I and my family are individually and collectively going through right now. Certainly all your prayers and kind messages to me are sources of strengths in this time of trial. Today, permit me not to talk about [...]

By elmot with 19 comments
Easter Reflection

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The Lord is risen. He is truly risen!
This is one Easter greeting from the Eastern Church that they do still practice today. But for us 21st century Christians, we simply greet Happy Easter, and so there goes the egg hunt and the dancing bunnies in the malls to our hearts’ delight.
One great thing that this day [...]

By elmot with 16 comments