Truncation OOB.

You know you've been around too long when decisions made years ago start coming back to haunt you.

It's worse when the decisions were yours.

No shortcuts.

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Stand aside, On My Own!

If you thought that "I love him... but only on my own" and the rest of that song were the most saksak-dibdiban sa pagkapathetic yet poetic lines about acceptedly—is that a word?—unrequited love, you were wrong! This is what takes the cake:

But the man I met. He is the love I've wanted to reach long before I knew that he existed. And I think he will remain beyond my reach. But that I love him will be enough to keep me living.

--- Dagny Taggart speaking of John Gault to Hank Rearden in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

What say you? ;-)

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Mexicali's Shrimp Bisque

This was indubitably made of shrimp, the whole shrimp, and nothing but the shrimp. My first thought was, so this is what shrinp head pureé tastes like!

In spite of the uninspiring appearance—a lot of toilet-humor metaphors come to mind—the soup would appeal to a hard-core seafood lover. It does, however, require a flavored drink of some sort to allow one to recover from the overwhelming kapow it leaves in one's mouth.

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Time

Here I am in Glorietta, listening and standing idly by as my sister scrambles to capture Boys Like Girls' mall concert here in Glorietta. I've been half-listening to them for the past half-hour or so, but in spite of the rapt attention everyone else is caught up in (see photos), I have yet to recognize a single song.

So this is what listening exclusively an iPod does to you: it locks you into an endless loop of songs you like, but leaves you disconnected from the TV-watching and radio-listening public. The music sounds like something that I would at the very least recognize back in my pre-iPod days.

I think they sound too much like Simple Plan.

Why do I persist in categorizing the new in terms of the old? Am I reactionary? Or is this what they call "change management"? :-)

What kind of a name is Boys Like Girls, anyway? Ano sila, mga lalakin mahilig sa babae o mga lalaking parang babae?

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