by Alex | Feb 15, 2026 | Parenting, Personal, Sports
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...
by Alex | Sep 13, 2025 | Personal, Politics, Sports
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...
by Alex | Jul 21, 2024 | Personal, Sports
I was never the athlete. As a kid, I was short, stubby, and had lungs that could barely hold in a couple of puffs of air. I liked sports but sports never liked me. But if there was a sport in which I displayed any semblance of schoolyard competence, it would be...
by Alex | Jan 11, 2019 | Gaming, Sports, Technology
Weight loss has always seemed to be a Sisyphean task for me. We have a family history of obesity so darn genetics for giving me the fat gene. And having been obese in my younger years, my fat cells just want to swell up whenever I succeed in getting trim. My constant...
by Alex | Sep 27, 2015 | Sports
I recently started following the UAAP men’s basketball. I mainly have lost interest in it due to the fact that UP has been losing and that I have been critical of the lack of coverage of the other sports. But what can you do when you live in a basketball...
by Alex | May 7, 2015 | Sports
We’ve moved in to a new place a couple of weeks ago and we’re hankering to fill the space with some activity. The family’s filled with Pacquiao fans so we decided to get a pay-per-view subscription and host a viewing party for the Pacquiao-Mayweather...