According to Webster (the dictionary, not the person), an Oxymoron is “a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect“. Or simply put, it’s a pairing of words that contradict each other.
Perfect examples of contradiction of terms that are, or rather… WE, often use are “Deafening Silence”, “Pretty [...]

Question: What is more painful than finding yourself lost in some strange land with no money and no one to turn to?
Answer: Having your own countryman take advantage of you.
What’s worse, the people taking advantage of you are the very ones tasked to assist the citizens of the country they’re supposed to represent.
RP envoy charged [...]

Two weeks have passed since I officially terminated my Globe broadband account and reapplied for my PLDT dsl connection. However, I have yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel, despite the daily bombardment of phone calls and a visit to their business office the past week.
With the millions of pesos [...]

My post last Tuesday elicited a comment or two, not about my new toy — which really was the topic — but about that ancient-looking photograph on my equally ancient worktable that was very visible in the picture.
Note: That worktable used to be my late Dad’s… but that’s for another post.

Well, to satisfy the curiosity [...]

My one good reason to have lunch at Burger King whenever I can the past few weeks…

The company claims it uses a hundred percent Angus beef patty on their Steakhouse Burgers, but that, we’ll never really know. And while the combination of all things meaty and greasy may be a bovine flesh [...]

After weeks of giving it much thought I finally decided to switch back to the old desktop PC. No, there wasn’t anything wrong with my one year-old laptop. In fact, it’s still in semi-pristine condition, having suffered none of that wear and tear a portable computer normally gets from moving around all the time. Actually, [...]

He walked past me, half-naked; his entire body covered with the by-product of the city’s never-ending quest for progress.
He is by all estimate still young, probably in his early thirties. And yet, he walks as if he carries the burden of the world on his back.
Homeless and desperately in need of nourishment, he [...]

First, it was my Globe wireless broadband trouble; then it was last week’s aborted birthday celebration due to typhoon Frank; and now comes the final blow… my total loss of internet access at home.
Yes folks, my dial-up connection — which is my only link to the www these days — has gone kaput as [...]

Rather than write about those oh-so-tiring issues that’s been hounding the dailies lately, I thought I’d just share these images from my sister’s forwarded mail. Okay okay, I confess, my mind’s a total blur and I’m just too darn lazy to write anything this morning… there, I said it.
Next to an air-related disaster movie, THIS [...]

I was a bit reluctant at first to watch the second big screen incarnation of the not-so-jolly-green monster from Marvel Comics — no thanks to that disastrous 2003 outing by director Ang Lee. I firmly held on to the belief, then, that if they can’t make it work the first time there’s no reason they [...]