Life in Autumn

For those who are wondering kung nakaalis ang lola niyo, nandito lang po ako sa Pinas. Sorry for not being able to reply to your text messages. I’ve been preoccupied for various reasons. Thanks for the messages. I do appreciate them.

And Rich, to answer your question visit the site of the German embassy. I’m not going to give the link here because I don’t want to assist them in any way (bitter pa rin?!). We submitted a lot of documents but I don’t think it’s the same if you’re going to apply for a visitor’s visa.

Kitakita na lang tayo sa cyberspace. Hope to get away with you soon one of these days.

Yesterday, I was chatting up with a buddy who works freelance for PCIJ. She said she had a talk with Ma’am Yvonne Chua, our copyediting guru, who actually remembers us to this day. Well, I said, she probably remembers us because of the dreadful copies she had to endure. I was quite taken aback when my friend told me that she remembered us because we were (drum roll please) the last batch of journalism students she handled who could actually make good copies. She says most of her students now even have problems with their grammar. That’s just too bad. But you see, how can we expect our kids today to be good when education has become the least of our country’s priorities?
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Haven’t been blogging lately. Not due to lack of things to talk about. God knows how erratic life could be.

Gusto ko lang magparamdam dito. We’re still looking forward to that vacation. Hoping it would push thru next week. Or else I’m still getting away from all of these.

Just wanted to say : Fuck the Nazis!