It all came down to that fateful Saturday morning. After months of intense preparation (who am I kidding!?), it was finally Day 1 of Kalis 4 - one of, if not the most, prestigious airsoft tournaments in the Philippines. I had been psyching myself up for the past week or two. If there was one personal mission I had in mind, it was to not disappoint my teamates and myself. Read the rest of this entry »

“In the end that is what makes an Atenean an Atenean. it is not luck in the ordinary sense of the word. it is luck seen with the eyes of God.

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Saturday afternoon found the team assembling at the Steel Mill in Novaliches for the last day of training for next week’s Kalis 4 tournament. This was the day that our lineup would be finalized Read the rest of this entry »

Just felt like naming this after the Incubus song. I originally wanted to write something about the movie, but I didn’t feel like writing a review. But a promise is a promise…so here it is. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll be watching Exorcist - The Beginning tonight. Here’s hoping I wet my pants from fright. Thanks Bula for the tickets :) Review to follow.

Crawl this page for me please.

She’s probably somewhere over the Pacific right now. Come to papa! Read the rest of this entry »

Ideas don’t overwhelm me like they do other people. You can say something “new” and while it may sound extraordinary for some, it probably won’t shock me at all. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a nod. More often than not, it’s a blank stare. Call it the arrogance of knowing. With the Internet being the great equalizer, one only has to get online to run with the knowledgeable crowd. Hell, you can even fake it if you have a really trusting audience*.

Since it’s so hard to get a true mentor these days, here are a few tips for mentor wannabees. Call it the immutable laws of mentorship:

1. True knowledge is hard to come by these days (there’s nothing you can’t Google)
2. To know is a burden. To teach is divine.
3. Listening is to mentorship, as eyesight is to driving.

How do I know this? I don’t, that’s the good part.
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*tab·u·la ra·sa
n. pl. tab·u·lae ra·sae (tby-l räs, -z)
a.1 The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience.
a.2 The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.
b.1 A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning.

Somehow screaming your heart out just can’t cut it anymore. Twas a very disappointing game today for the Ateneo Blue Eagles. The team knows it, the fans know it…hell even my green friends know it. Now we’re looking at a best of 3 grudge match, then a possible anti-climactic finals appearance. Can I now press the panic button? Sharm seems to be happy though…getting her 3-second shot at stardom courtesy of Studio 23..

I can’t remember the last time I sat so near the action. Thanks Ner and Jovie for those PT110 tickets. Jam, and to the alumnus who sat beside us, ayos kayong cheering mates! Sa uulitin!

Photo credits: Nono Felipe. More pictures here and here.

AMDG

Last September 4, the team was at the Steel Mill site in Novaliches to participate in the Honda-sponsored event. Cousin Cha was organizing the event for Honda, so why not make it a family affair? Read the rest of this entry »

I recently bought a 14-part DVD set on World War II which I thought would be the perfect gift for my dad, the ultimate war junkie. Read the rest of this entry »