A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

Blog and surfing time have been reduced because we're gearing up to pull up the stakes and move again. Just 15 more days before the big move and details need to be ironed out. It's not like we can call Lipat-Bahay and make arrangements and be done with it. I'm not much of a 'mover'. The wife's more of the nomad. For every one of my residential transfers, ...

Chinese astronauts are not called sinonauts, as I mused before when they sent their first man into space. Be grateful for that because sinonauts sounds like someone with a bad cold trying to get rid of snot. Like astronauts for the Americans and cosmonauts for the Russians, the Chinese have their own tag for their spacemen: yuhangyuans or taikonauts. Yuhangyuan is Chinese for "space navigator " a term used ...

Jove has moved. His new digs is at jovefrancisco.com. Running on Wordpress too. That's a relief. I was wondering why jovefrancisco.blogspot.com wasn't being updated anymore. I thought he was picked up by the secret police or something. (What? You don't think there's a secret police? And you also thought there aren't any Pinoy spies.) Lesson: when you're moving addresses, you let people know by putting up the new address ...

Mr. Neil Gaiman, who you're probably tired of hearing from this space, had a busy month last September. His new novel came out and his first full-length film feature also made its onscreen debut. I picked up Anansi Boys when we made our trip to the Left Coast. Haven't finished it and that's why this isn't exactly a review just yet. Gaiman is still lyrical as ever and he ...

Click Mo Mukha Mo got featured on Live from USA. Philippines, zine blog podcast by these two guys. They mentioned the wifey's blog, who's been following SYTYCD to its bitter, anti-climactic end. Emer's blog which apparently caused some confusion what he talks about and whether he's a law student or a law professor (FYI, Emer's a law-student). They mentioned Mirsbin's blog which is getting more active now that ...

Remember that bit by comedian Rex Navarette playing with the Sto. Niño when he was a kid while the other kids had their Muhammad Ali and GI Joe dolls? Guess what...