tsinelas volunteers and friends: please help spread the word, and use poster below. no date yet, though. just keep the anticipation going. for updated list of donors, visit tsinelasdiaries.

Do you part with your books? Especially those you love so much that their titles alone make your nose run?

You should have seen how fellow columnists Januar Yap and Michelle So reacted to the question. “What the ef are you talking about, you good for nothing @*^#!!!_++? No one can make me part with my books, even if you happen to write an irrelevant column every Tuesday.”

OK, they were not freaking mad, actually. We’re good friends. We take care of each other when we’re drunk. We check out each other’s column to make sure there are at least two people in the world who read us every week. What they gave me was a look of professional concern, like a doctor to a terminally ill patient.

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Poster creation of johanna michelle lim. not final yet. subject to editing. but the minimalistic approach is cool. check the chick out at visualplayground.multiply.com

( OT: check out THE TSINELAS DIARIES for interesting info on the next TSINELAS book sale )

All this fuss about body parts miraculously popping up in garbage dumps, with nobody owning up responsibility, convinced me that each part of our body has a mind of its own and operates independently of the others. Biological harmony happens only because the parts, during their infancy stage, are conditioned to believe they can’t live without each other.

Later in their cute, anatomic existence, they realize some parts enjoy life’s luxuries while others suffer despite just distribution of tasks. “You do nothing but sit on the job while I walk all of us to great distances,” Feet says to Butt.

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click HERE. so you’ll know what we’re doing. not an official website, though. just a personal documentation, simple blogging. doesn’t carry entries on activities before this month. wanted: web designers – we need your help.

– this month, cebu’s media is celebrating the annual PRESS FREEDOM WEEK. the celebration in 1999 had me writing about my then 8-month-old life as journalist. in yet another failed attempt at cleaning my room of age-old clutter, i came across that article. damn, dugaya na diay nako aning trabahoa uy. –

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IT PAYS to be the silent type. Clamming up unless whining is necessary gives you the privilege to do little crazy things without people asking you for an explanation. They won’t give a damn. Let him suffer in silence, they’d say. He’s good at it anyway.

Deciding to work for Sun.Star Daily was the craziest thing I did this year (who in his right mind aspires to be a journalist with philosophy as background?) . Or better yet, it was the latest in an endless series of crazy things I had been doing since my decision to wear a permanent shark tattoo on my back five years ago.

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HERE’S PULLING MYSELF TOGETHER.

The word that will be repeated several times in this article is not something I am actually fond of. In fact, the word shouldn’t have been allowed to exist at all. OK, compromise: the word should be relegated to the Entertainment Section, where it can be used to increase newspaper sales and keep my check for this column coming. The only reason the word gets here in the Opinion Page is that my editors have yet to figure out what to make of my writing.

The word is “metrosexual.”

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with her photography, it’s a different kind of orgasmic experience for me. check out her latest collection at ech in san francisco

(to chiloy: bayad na akong utang ani ha)

salamat sa tanan nga ningtambong sa PARES last august 30. we didn’t expect to gather a crowd that big and to raise an amount that significant. because of PARES’ success, we are planning another event, this time to focus on booksale. this is not going to be another one of those ordinary booksales. some big names in cebu’s literary scene will be involved. we’re holding details for now. again, thanks a lot.

for photos of PARES, visit jonggai’s visualplayground.multiply.com