Category Archives: Life

An atheist was walking through the woods.
What majestic trees!
What powerful rivers!
What beautiful animals!
He said to himself.

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New Rule: There’s no such thing as flavored water. There’s a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That’s your flavored water.

New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the a**hole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a “decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one sweet-n’-Low, and one NutraSweet,” ooh, you’re a huge a**hole. (Post transferred here. All posts under life and fatherhood will be transferred to PinoyDad.com.)

How often has it been said that you should spend time with, and treasure, the ones you love while you still have the chance. Still, while we nod our heads in agreement, we simply disregard it. Sometimes our realization comes too late. It’s the same thing as praying to God in happy times, or, if you prefer something farther from heaven, being in touch with your lawyer. We usually pray or call when there’s a problem. Sometimes, we call just in the nick of time. Sometimes it’s too late. (Post transferred here. All posts under life and fatherhood will be transferred to PinoyDad.com.)

I met a law school blockmate while at a Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) hearing this morning. As you may have guessed, a “blockmate” is a classmate that’s in the same “block”, or something called “section” (remember Atis, Venus or Diamond in high school?), that you’re in. In UP-Law, hopefuls are herded into Blocks A, B, C and E. Block E is for evening students, all of whom are working students. Just in case you’re wondering, blocks A, B and C don’t represent anything like “E” for “evening”. Read more »

. . . there’s always hope.“ – Aragorn, to the scared boy who said: “. . . the men are saying that we will not live out the night. They say that it is hopeless.” (scene in the Lord of the Rings-The Return of the King, before the final battle at the Helm’s Deep against the forces of Sauron-Sauroman)

There never was much hope; just a fool’s hope.” – Gandalf

At some point in our lives, we may experience unbearable pain, so unbearable that we’d welcome death to end it all. Many had succumbed, and many more will give in, to this temptation. Read more »