Opinions and Writings
Saturday slog
Being a football parent has been quite taxing. I’m lucky enough to have the flexibility to duck out during the week to fetch my daughter after practice—which happens twice a week, assuming the schedule actually holds. But considering how fickle the school calendar can...
Leaky faucet
Given all the kid's extracurriculars, having even just one of the weekends free for just rest has been rare. Today should've been one of those days. Tomorrow, the kid's got a karate tournament to go to. So just one day to relax. But no. Man-of-the-house duties...
Consequences of cheapskating
We’re almost into the homestretch of another school year for the kid. By next year, she’ll be allowed to bring a mobile phone to school. In a couple more years, she’ll be needing her own laptop. It just so happened that the hand-me-down phones that I’ve been using...
Yakiniku peasant
Napadayo kami sa MOA nitong huli dahil sa football tournament ni Bulilit. Minsan lang naman kami mapadpad doon kaya sinundan na rin namin ng libot. Natiyempuhan naming hindi mahaba ang pila sa Yakiniku King. Matagal na rin kaming hindi nakapagya-yakiniku kaya...
Black hole sun
So maybe I should take what the (Meta) algorithm has been feeding me as omen. Over the past month, I've being shown rants from Samsung owners groups about the dreaded screen issues like lines running vertically across their phones and dead pixels that sprout and...
Another trusty sidekick kicking the bucket
It's pretty sad that I've been putting up several of these obituaries for things already. I'm packing for an upcoming event this weekend. Since it needed a hotel stay, I grabbed my trusty toiletry kit from the cabinet. I opened it to check if its contents needed...
Rigodon of the hegemon
This Senate probe on DPWH projects is a daily reminder how deep we are into the darkest timeline. But is there light at the end of the tunnel? Or will the timestream branch off into something better? I hope so. The only thing that is preventing me from keeling over...
Middle class guilt
So... The kid finally scored her first competitive goal as part of their school's grade school football/futsal varsity. Too bad all this daddy pride came with a dash of middle class guilt. This match day was for the DepEd Unit Meet for elementary girl's futsal. The...
Getting too old for this
Around three months ago, I finally bit the bullet and got me a new desktop for work. The last time I got myself a workstation was in 2016. That rig been quite the trusty soldier, enabling me to make a decent living, serving as my digital darkroom for photography, and...