Monthly Archives: October 2004

In search of roasts

The menu of the Manila Club can be found here: The Manila Club – Club Facilities, Weekly Carvery and here: The Manila Club – Club Facilities, Daily Menu Looks delicious! I’ll have to find a Briton to take me.

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Pantayong Pananaw

In tusilog.blog-city.com you can read his latest entry, in Filipino, on “pantayong pananaw,” the ruling ideology in the Department of History of the University of the Philippines since the mid to late 1980s.

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Was Morato first Mayor of Quezon City?

In ABS-CBNNEWS.COM, Manuel L. Morato argues his father, Tomas Morato, was the first mayor of Quezon City. Since our family has been asked its views on the matter, the following may be useful: Statement There have been queries concerning the Quezon family’s views about Mr. Manuel L. Morato’s recent letter to the editor, published in [...]

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Blog-blabla

An American justice of the supreme court famously remarked, when asked to define obscenity, “I know it when I see it.” There’s been the blogahaha on what is the definition of a blog, based on what blogpundits, online journalists, etc. say. I suspect blogging has some essential elements to it: 1. it’s confessional, or to [...]

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Alex Quezon Saki?

Here is a curious entry: Film, images, archives audiovisuelles sur le monde d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Who was Alex Quezon Saki? Here, it says that’s not even his name (see Pres. of UN General Assembly for 1954): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_Nations_General_Assembly Apparently it’s Alexand Quiason-Sackey. But who he?

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The Long View: Royal society

Royal society First posted 22:54:13 (Mla time) October 24, 2004  Manuel L. Quezon III  Inquirer News Service      SOCIETY circles are agog over the dinner to be presided over by Chito Madrigal, Bea Zobel, Mary Prieto and Imelda Cojuangco, featuring Princess Caroline of Monaco and her husband, Prince Ernst August of Hanover. Readers of [...]

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In PinoyOnBoard.com – How Filipinos Name Babies and Got to Be Named, an amusing article on names.

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Bad movies and bad moods

Too bad if you haven’t seen them, but two of the worst movies I’ve seen recently -and recently all I’ve been managing to see, it seems, are bad movies- are: Open Water: Let’s go on vacation! Let’s ignore some basic rules of diving safety! Splash, argue, splash, argue, puke, nap, splash, argue, thud, bump, spash, [...]

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