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Megatonlove: Finding chocolate redemption (and a recipe!)
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Finding chocolate redemption (and a recipe! Some people I know have declared that they're giving up this, that or the other for Lent. The odd thing is, none of them are particularly religious, or even all that disciplined, so I wonder why they do it. Has Lent become just another trending thing, like being disgusted with Tiger Woods has become a trend? How does giving something up for 40 days make one a better person, or change the world? 2 cups / 400 grams white sugar. 2 tea...
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Megatonlove: August 2009
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Thursday, August 27, 2009. My friend Pat gave me this very nice but slightly rude t-shirt from a Belgian rock 'n roll band she's friends with. I showed it to Legs and Noodle and told them I was planning on wearing it when I take them to their first day of school next Tuesday. The horrified looks on my children's faces made my day. I just can't help myself sometimes. Sunday, August 23, 2009. Fred Astaire equals Joy. How did Fred avoid tripping on Ginger's gown? Why didn't men dress that way anymore? Not m...
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Megatonlove: ..... and I think I've got problems?
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Friday, October 2, 2009. And I think I've got problems? Fuck off, demons. I know you too well. You're not going to win this time. In other news, people continue to suffer in my beloved homeland. An extreme typhoon packing winds of 220 to 240 kph is headed for the northeastern part of the Philippines and is expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow. The death toll from last week's floods in Manila. With her sycophants. So many people have lost every single thing they have, and she parties. As long as we...
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Waldo Wanders: July 2009
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Part 4: The Wonder that was Baguio. My Shangri-La has gone away. She seemed to drift out on the rain, that came in somewhere softly from the blue. Clouds roll by and hide the sun, raindrops fall on everyone .". From the song by ELO. Apparell'd in celestial light,. The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;. Turn wheresoe'er I may, by night or day,. The things which I have seen I now can see no more.". They eagerly made reservations to stay a week.
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Waldo Wanders: January 2010
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Monday, January 25, 2010. Part 21: Return of the Native. Where we love is home,. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts". Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time". Having delivered me to the city of my school and thus, in his estimation, having reached the limits of his parental duties, my father and I happily parted company. Filiusfamilias. Had ended. Leaving my dad at the airport to fend for himself, I caught a cab to school.
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Waldo Wanders: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Part 25: The Blue Lagoon. I see as a young baby sees, and there are things are before me that I do not comprehend. It is not through my bodily eyes that this sensation comes, but through some window of the mind, from before which a curtain has been drawn.". Henry De Vere Stacpoole. Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. Boarder boredom during those first weeks of Martial Law also led to increased activity in the hazing department.
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Waldo Wanders: December 2009
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Monday, December 28, 2009. Part 19: My Summer Vacation (aka Death Race 1972). Home is the place where, when you have to go there,. They have to take you in". Well, I had to go "home" sometime and that time had come. I knew that traditionally kids were supposed to hate school and love summer vacation but I couldn't help but feel like I was headed for prison. I knew it wasn't going to be pleasant but I wasn't expecting the onslaught of misery. And a 3/4 length sleeve. Or just when you did the chores? Somet...
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Waldo Wanders: Sometimes A Great Notion: Part 2 - First Day:Manila
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Monday, February 27, 2012. Sometimes A Great Notion: Part 2 - First Day:Manila. Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untraveled minds. In proving foresight may be vain;. The best-laid schemes of mice and. Men go oft awry". Is a term that refers to Filipinos. Returning to their homeland (. After hug...
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Waldo Wanders: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Forward: A Stranger in A Strange Land. For he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.'. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground .You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.". Both of my father's parents came from strong, outspoken, authoritarian families. Grandpa Karl came to the US from Switzerland in 1920 and Grandma Bertha’s family came from Germany in the mid-1800’s. Nothing was the same after that. These are my recollections of growing up in the Philipp...
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