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           Hello, dear reader of mine! I'm sorry for not having posted anything insightful, relevant or revolutionary in the past few days. Or in the entire course of my life, for that matter. But anyway, that's because I've had neither the time nor energy to write a "real" post in a while. So here I am right now, hoping to change that. We got a lot of catching up to do.            There was a brownout in the dorm last night, at about eleven o'clock. It didn't seem like a big deal at that time because my laptop was fully charged, and so was my roommate Jean's, and so when we had them on, the light coming from the screens kept the room sufficiently lit (not that I don't have a flashlight). Also, the room was still pretty cool (literally, cool) because the aircon had been on full blast for over three hours until then.            But then Jean decided to turn in before me, and I couldn'...

My family and I didn't have anything better to do last night after dinner than drive around the city. There was no power at home, and no power meant no aircon, and no aircon meant no us. :) So we hit the Night Cafe' for a while (and I even got this cool new pair of purple Chucks! Oh yeah. Manila here I come!) and after that, we were left with nothing to do. Driving home, we passed by this political rally in front of the Provincial Capitol. It was mayoral candidate Klarex Uy's. Out of boredom, we decided to check it out. And here comes the good part! Gibo was there! Gilbert Teodoro! I was NOT expecting that. He was up on stage, introducing his party members to everyone, and people were cheering him on as Klarex Uy's jingle blared from the speakers. (yeah, this picture sucks, I know, but that's the best my phone's camera could muster.) And here comes the better part! As Gibo and his partymates take a bow, one of his campaign managers goes to the front of ...